(April 25, 2019 at 6:03 pm)Yonadav Wrote: I'd get arrested if I assaulted someone for calling me names. When it's OK for half a dozen guys to beat up one guy for calling them a name that hurts their feelings, I call that privilege. I think that privilege should be checked. That was a real 'brave' bunch of guys that beat up that one guy. I think that they were cowards whose numbers gave them courage.
I don't like that white guy's racism. But I think that it is also racism when black people get a free pass to assault people for calling them names, when none of the rest of us can assault anyone for calling us names. If it had been a black guy getting beat up after calling some white guys names, it would just be so horribly racist.
I am opposed to the one way street. I think that black racism is just as bad as white racism. We all need to knock it off.
I don’t think it was clear that you weren’t talking about the criminal justice system.
But if you say you weren’t...then I wouldn’t agree that there’s any privilege involved, but i would agree that media is more likely to make a huge deal out of abunch of white guys beating up a black guy and completely ignore a story of black guys beating up a white guy.
This has nothing to do with privilege. It’s all about ratings.
