RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
October 3, 2018 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2018 at 11:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 3, 2018 at 11:13 am)paulpablo Wrote:There often is a component of white privilege in where we can live. Assuming one has the economic means to overcome that, there remains a difference in how a person might be able to live there in the absence of that privilege.(October 3, 2018 at 9:28 am)Khemikal Wrote: 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.
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.
Quote: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.You don't know what white privilege is, so how could you determine that something is true or false with respect to that privilege? You seem to think that..even in this instance, the privilege being referred to is akin to someone being granted a house on the basis of their being white. The white version of 40acres and a mule, lol.
The white privilege being referred to, in this instance, comes in the form of a rent or loan application (or for that matter, the outright sale of a residence) for a specific property in a specific neighborhood having a greater or lesser chance of passing process due to the ethnicity (real or perceived) of the applicant. Of being seen to be "the right sort of person for our community". After that hurdle, white privilege comes in the form of fewer complaints, and less shade.
Amusingly, no one in this process need be overtly or even intentionally racist. Structural privileges transcend individual actors motivations.
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