RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
October 3, 2018 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2018 at 11:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 3, 2018 at 11:37 am)paulpablo Wrote:(October 3, 2018 at 11:27 am)Khemikal Wrote: You'd suggest anything that scrubbed the existence of white privilege from it's implicitly racist underpinnings...so? I'm sorry you didn't get your allotted 40acres and a mule, but since that's not what white privilege is, nor is it what is being referred to in that list..I don't know why it would be a comment on the reality of white privilege. : shrugs :
In that list it does say that an effect of white privilege is being able to afford to purchase property or rent property in a place of her choice.
As a privilege that stems from having money and living in a place she can blend in as a racial majority.
Majority and wealth privilege.
Sure, and also white privilege. Ask yourself this....what are her odds of getting into the local white gated community in a majority - minority area?
Better or worse than her economically equal minority? Better or worse than her economically equal minority that "act's white"...and of the two minority applicants, which has the greater odds?
Why does the white girl start off with the best odds? Why does the minority that "acts white" run up, and why do both people enjoy a privileged transaction with respect to the third? What might a good name for a privilege conferred by being or acting white, be? Words are hard. Care to suggest an accurate term?
Let me ask you a question, Pablo. Why is it, do you think..we have anti-discrimination laws in place when it comes to housing and lending? More specifically, do you think that they owe their existence to our having sat down and engaged in a theoretical exercise? What might happen, what could, someday, happen? Or is it rather that we noticed significant discrimination and sought to penalize it? If the latter is the case..could you put a date on the day that this stopped happening?
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