Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[mlmooney89]

Saying white people aren't privileged is like saying Christians are being persecuted in the USA. White people can't cry racists and Christians can't cry persecution. This is coming from a white girl that used to be Christian.

[rexbeccarox]

Saying white people aren't privileged is like saying Christians are being prosecuted in the USA. White people can't cry racists and Christians can't cry prosecution. This is coming from a white girl that used to be Christian.

I think you mean "persecuted"...?

[mlmooney89]

Saying white people aren't privileged is like saying Christians are being prosecuted in the USA. White people can't cry racists and Christians can't cry prosecution. This is coming from a white girl that used to be Christian.

I think you mean "persecuted"...?

BAHAHAHA Yes I do. My phone likes to guess what I'm slide texting and I forget to check it a lot. Earlier it switched 'and' to 'abyss'. Not sure how that happened, at least this one makes sense.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Why can't white peoples 'cry racist'?

That don't make no sense.

[mlmooney89]

Because it is all in retaliation. I mean yes technically there is white racism but the majority is just fighting back for the racism whites are dishing out. I grew up with very racist views (which I have changed my ways once I got away from my step father and I feel awful for how I acted when I thought it was funny) There was one time in high school a black guy was 'courting' me and he found out that I was racist which is why I was ignoring him. He went off saying fucking white girls are this and that and just racial slurs. I was shocked and going omg he is just as racist the fuckin hypocrite. No that wasn't the case. He was just retaliating. I bet if the whites let it go about Mexicans and blacks things would be a lot different.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

You know the world isn't just America?

I feel like I should step away from this conversation. You're basically saying 'guilty by association of 'colour' and hence justifying anti racism as a new racism. "It's retaliation" is effectively "an eye for an eye."

That's about as far away from progressive as you could possibly be, so I'm out.

[Minimalist]

This fellow is honest.

http://www.laweekly.com/music/henry-roll...ay-7134994

If white America experienced a fraction of what black America deals with regarding law enforcement, incarceration, the court system, employment and countless other facts of life, they would immediately and collectively lose their minds.

I’m an educated, Caucasian, heterosexual male. Does this ensure I will have success and live the American Dream? Obviously it doesn’t, but it damn sure drops me on second base with a great opportunity to steal third.

[Regina]

I feel like it's less about saying "this shit does not happen to white and/or wealthy people" and more "it's a hell of a lot less likely to happen to white and/or wealthy people"

It's also certain beneficial things that, if it happens, it'll happen to a white person. The Stanford rapist (who is white and from a wealthy family) has received 3 months in jail for rape, while simultaneously, there are thousands of black and/or Hispanic men in jail for years, life even sometimes, just for drug offenses. The Stanford rapist isn't even an isolated incident, it's just another in a long list of "affluenza" sufferers, people who are excused because the "loss of reputation is punishment enough", or merely fired from their jobs after un-lawfully killing on the job with no further punishment.

Is the system fair? No. If examples like this don't tell you that there's such thing as wealth and race privilege in The USA then I don't really know what will.

Personally I do think wealth privilege trumps race privilege (and increasingly so as we move into the 21st Century) but that doesn't suddenly undo centuries of racial oppression.

[Faith No More]

Off topic, but I would LOVE to know who was arguing the case for sex with a 9 year old...[emoji35]

I believe it was a Muslim defending his prophet who married a six or seven year old girl but waited to have sex with her until she was nine.

[Minimalist]

I feel like it's less about saying "this shit does not happen to white and/or wealthy people" and more "it's a hell of a lot less likely to happen to white and/or wealthy people"

In fairness, whites...unlike blacks... apparently are far more susceptible to getting "affluenza."  Oh, the horror.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/affluenza-dui-c...d=34481444

During Couch's sentencing, a psychologist hired by the defense testified that the teen was a product of "affluenza" -- a term he used to describe Couch's irresponsible lifestyle associated with his affluent upbringing -- and that irresponsible parenting had "strongly enabled" the accident, despite the fact that Couch had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit on the night of the crash.

Blacks are so lucky not to suffer from this dreaded condition.