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RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 16, 2016 at 1:15 am
(July 16, 2016 at 1:13 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Rewards? What exactly are these rewards you speak of?
Affirmative Action.
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RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 16, 2016 at 1:20 am
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Non-minority-race privilege is very real.
The Caucasian race is a minority in very few counties.
Therefore white privilege is very real in the vast majority of countries.
Suck it privilege deniers.
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RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 16, 2016 at 1:23 am
I don't believe it.
I am a white guy and I have never received privilege over a minority.
I have been homeless, living in a car, and still black people were doing better than me.
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RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 16, 2016 at 1:28 am
Your logic sucks.
"I'm white and I can think of many ways I haven't been privileged over black people I have known who were better off than me: Therefore white privilege isn't real".
Your logic just plain sucks.
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RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 16, 2016 at 1:29 am
If you knew how to use logic....
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RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 16, 2016 at 1:31 am
(July 16, 2016 at 1:30 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I do unlike yourself.
I have yet to see it, but I shall concede that you believe you do logic.
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RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 16, 2016 at 2:01 am
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(July 14, 2016 at 9:20 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: There are no biological races - race is a social construct.
What about someone who considers themselves Latino or black but they pass as white. Do they have white privilege?
I would argue "yes" because there's still a perceived whiteness about them. If you're mixed but you look flat white, people who don't know you are going to see a white person when you're walking along the street. Also "Latin" isn't a race, it's a culture.
It also works the other way as well. You can be someone with mostly/totally European ancestry who is therefore socialised as a "white European", who is not percieved as white based on looks. My grandfather was "white" as a Maltese person, but ask the average British person what they'd think he was based on looks, they'd probably think he was a carpet merchant from Gaza. That perception is a reality, regardless of what he might have claimed to be or whether it's a social construct.
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