(October 3, 2018 at 9:28 am)Khemikal Wrote:(October 3, 2018 at 8:36 am)paulpablo Wrote: If the privilege is the result of superior military force and resulting military actions that result in power then that's simply a power privilege.While that was once the case, it certainly isn't so any more, unless you count our police as a military force. It doesn't take a battalion of infantry to maintain privilege anymore than it takes an army of calorie burning racists.
Quote:It's not exclusively white or caused by having white skin.
The type of privilege being discussed by the term "white privilege" most certainly is, and demonstrably exists. Until you can get past this anxious hurdle you will not be able to cogently comment on -that- privilege. It is a bag of tangible assets, conferred by identification as white.
In the case that Jordan Peterson was talking about the woman listed being able to move house where she wants to as an example of a tangible asset confered by identification as being white.
This is false for the obvious reason that it isn't granted to white people and she didn't get that privilege by being white.
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