Correcting grammar is racist.

[Pat Mustard]

White privilege isn't real anyway.

Yes it fucking well is. Arguing against white privilege is like holocaust denial, in that both are a rejection of objective reality.

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White privilege isn't real anyway.

Yes it fucking well is. Arguing against white privilege is like holocaust denial, in that both are a rejection of objective reality.

Fucking lol'd.

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Can I have some then?

[ignoramus]

Can I have some then?

Of course, how can we possibly deny a white girl? 

[Regina]

lot's of white people go out in the sun and scorch their skin to bronze themselves to look more toned and attractive risking skin cancer and premature agin., they even buy sunbeds or just spray themselves to make themselves look less white.

But I feel like, in ways, they're not doing that to look black or to look like other races. People finding being tanned more attractive is due to affluence.

Superficially, they're doing it just to look like more "exotic" white people. If anything at all, it's perhaps about looking Southern European, which is still white, because for some reason "Mediterranean beauty" is hot right now. That's all too apparent to me, as a Mediterranean person.

On a deeper level, it's because darker skin is becoming more subconsciously associated with being outdoorsy and having a healthy lifestyle (as opposed to being sick and a couch potato). It's the unfortunately misled notion of "a healthy tan". The forced tan itself is obviously very unhealthy, but the lifestyle that might bring on a tan naturally is associated with health and travelling, and that's why it's becoming more attractive in affluent societies. It's a sign of money and having spare time to get out and do things now. White people tanning isn't about self-hate or trying to look "less white", it's a display of having an attractive lifestyle.

This contrasts to many developing countries, where darker sun-tanned skin is still seen as being a impoverished farm labourer's skin.

[paulpablo]

lot's of white people go out in the sun and scorch their skin to bronze themselves to look more toned and attractive risking skin cancer and premature agin., they even buy sunbeds or just spray themselves to make themselves look less white.

But I feel like, in ways, they're not doing that to look black or to look like other races. People finding being tanned more attractive is due to affluence.

Superficially, they're doing it just to look like more "exotic" white people. If anything at all, it's perhaps about looking Southern European, which is still white, because for some reason "Mediterranean beauty" is hot right now. That's all too apparent to me, as a Mediterranean person.

On a deeper level, it's because darker skin is becoming more subconsciously associated with being outdoorsy and having a healthy lifestyle (as opposed to being sick and a couch potato). It's the unfortunately misled notion of "a healthy tan". The forced tan itself is obviously very unhealthy, but the lifestyle that might bring on a tan naturally is associated with health and travelling, and that's why it's becoming more attractive in affluent societies. It's a sign of money and having spare time to get out and do things now. White people tanning isn't about self-hate or trying to look "less white", it's a display of having an attractive lifestyle.

This contrasts to many developing countries, where darker sun-tanned skin is still seen as being a impoverished farm labourer's skin.

I think it's actually more simple than that.  It's just because muscle tone is more pronounced in darker skin which is why body builders darken their skin.  But yeh a lot of what you're talking about is probably going on aswell, people see it as a reflection of a healthy lifestyle and so on.

But I don't think dark skinned people are globally changing their bodies because of self hatred either, A lot of time I think it's just to look different, exotic, more attractive or whatever you want to call it.

In the evolution of trends if it works it works, if a guy having a tan gets more attention from females that's what he might do for that specific reason, if a black girl straightens her hair and gets more attention she might do it for that, people curl their hair, tan their skin, lighten their skin, inject their lips with stuff.  Somtimes it might be in order to look like a different race, possibly or possibly not. But I just wouldn't see it as evidence of global white privilege.

[Losty]

Physical attraction has nothing to do with white privilege anyways. White privilege is about how being white makes you less likely to be born into poverty, being white makes you more likely to get a job, being white makes you less likely to live in a shitty neighborhood with shitty schools and get a shitty education, being white makes you less likely to be arrested for drug related 'crimes'....I'm sure there is so much more.

And please don't respond with an "I'm white, where's my privilege?" It puts you in the same group with people who deny global warming because it snowed yesterday. Please just don't do that.

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Physical attraction has nothing to do with white privilege anyways. White privilege is about how being white makes you less likely to be born into poverty, being white makes you more likely to get a job, being white makes you less likely to live in a shitty neighborhood with shitty schools and get a shitty education, being white makes you less likely to be arrested for drug related 'crimes'....I'm sure there is so much more.

And please don't respond with an "I'm white, where's my privilege?" It puts you in the same group with people who deny global warming because it snowed yesterday. Please just don't do that.

Maybe in your country. Not mine.

I don't have any privilege.

So yes, I will respond with that. Where's my privilege?

[Alex K]

I think good grammar tends to be an indicator of a good education, the goal should really be to improve the grammar of hispanic people and black people in America rather than force white people to accept a lesser standard of grammar.

Obviously I'm talking about large groups of people and trends just as the woman in the video is.  She's saying white people should care less about grammar I personally think people in general should care more about it including myself.  I'm not a big fan of grammar nazis on forums and chatrooms but I've learned a few things from them over the years and I think that's a good thing, I never felt like people were just trying to shut me up.

I really don't think it has anything to do with the level of education and personal vocabulary of the person and more to do with the person.

I liked this preliminary study: http://www.techinsider.io/people-who-cor...nds-2016-3

From the Article:

More importantly, the team found a separate (though somewhat small) negative correlation between a person's level of agreeableness and their likelihood of highlighting the errors. The least open-minded people, in other words, were the ones who stood out as the grammar police.

So typo-obsessed people beware: Your actions do speak louder than words.

Hypothetically, if I'd point out to the author of that article that typos and grammar mistakes are by no means the same thing and shouldn't be conflated, what does that make me? Worse than Hitler?

[Losty]

Physical attraction has nothing to do with white privilege anyways. White privilege is about how being white makes you less likely to be born into poverty, being white makes you more likely to get a job, being white makes you less likely to live in a shitty neighborhood with shitty schools and get a shitty education, being white makes you less likely to be arrested for drug related 'crimes'....I'm sure there is so much more.

And please don't respond with an "I'm white, where's my privilege?" It puts you in the same group with people who deny global warming because it snowed yesterday. Please just don't do that.

Maybe in your country. Not mine.

I don't have any privilege.

Your personal privileges are irrelevant to white privilege