"White Privilege" doesn't exist

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  1. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    Try Polly want a cracker.
     
  2. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    It's not
     
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    Bill Clinton and Hillary are white, there is no doubt they are both guilty as shyte of sex crimes and laundering money sprinkled in with a bit of murder. The skeptism of guilt or innocence comes from an individual stance, not based on their skin color from the right. The left couldn't jump to their prejudices fast enough when it comes to race. Whether it be George Zimmerman, the white guy shooting a black kid, or the two guys at Starbucks. You are projecting your own biases upon to an entire demographic, this being the police and their behavior, and the entire country.
     
  4. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    here's an example of white privilege

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    Wildjoker5 Well-Known Member

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    Anecdotal. Unless that cop has shot black people for doing the same, there is no proof its not because hes white.
     
  6. Max Rockatansky

    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Agreed on "small number". Certainly not enough to justify "white privilege".
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That would only matter if 100% of blacks were stopped, is that the case?
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You can provide no evidence that such a thing exists in this country because the whole 'white privilege' conspiracy is based on subjective criteria that can never be proven.
     
  9. Renee

    Renee Well-Known Member

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    It isn’t bullshit. Once again I will repeat my husband’s story. He was a high school dropout, got a job as a clerk on Wall Street in the back office, and because he was a white male, he would agree that that was the reason he was even considered to go down on trading floor. ..which led to being a Vice President and retiring in his 40s. He is the first want to tell you that it was white male privilege. Today thankfully you see women and minorities on the trading floor as well
     
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    When you walk out on the street no one knows whether you are rich or poor. When you go into a store you are not viewed with suspicion. I do agree there is a lot of prejudice against poor people and that is why I always correct people when they talk about “trailer trash” or poor white trash”
     
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  11. Renee

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    This is from white privilege, unpacking the invisible knapsack...
    I am so happy to say that many of them are outdated...thanks to activists who have fought for change. These are the privileges white people enjoyed at the time this was written
    1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
    2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
    3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.
    4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
    5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.
    6. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
    7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.
    8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.
    9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can cut my hair.
    10. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.
    11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.
    12. I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.
    13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.
    14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.
    15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.
    16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world’s majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.
    17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.
    18. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge,” I will be facing a person of my race.
    19. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.
    20. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race.
    21. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared.
    22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.
    23. I can choose public accommodations without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
    24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.
    25. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
    26. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have them more less match my skin.
     
  12. ThirdTerm

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    Police officers are more likely to be racist compared to the general public, which is why blacks are more likely to be shot or stopped. This has nothing to do with white privilege. Because their education level is not beyond high school, they are prone to be swayed by racial stereotypes they grew up with. Trump's supporters were mostly people without college degrees, too. We are indoctrinated to believe that police officers are good folks who can do no wrong.
     
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    So which is it Ron? Cops, store owners, etc. generally treat minorities like second class citizens? Or just a small number of cops et al.? Because if it's just a small number of cops, and cops are more likely than other people to be racist (according to third term), then the general public must be doing pretty damn good.
     
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    Correction, it's a parody of that flag. Remember parody? Charlie Chaplin and John Cleese both dressed up as Literally Hitler and did parody, and yet people weren't saying that Chaplin, Cleese, and the people who watched them were racists (even though there was more racism back then than today). The idea of Kekistan is that it's making fun of identity politics (the Kekistanis are the most oppressed people in the world, don't you know. The other countries refuse to even put them on the map). But White Supremacists ARE racial identitarians who use identity politics, so Kekistan pokes fun at them, too.
     
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    And that's all because he's white and male right it doesn't have anything to do with the work he did?
     
  16. Polydectes

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    All of this is bologna it's just excuses for why you're not succeeding if you are in the so-called underprivileged class.

    There are non-whites here that do way better than whites but we don't hear about eastern Indian privilege or Asian privilege do we because they're not white. They haven't been conditioned to feel guilt and because people try to guilt them for themselves not having anything.

    So you go after white people.
     
  17. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    Generalities based on race yeah that's racism.
     
  18. Polydectes

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    I disagree, I will explain.

    White privilege is the excuse people give because black on average make up a larger percent of the prison population and have a higher statistical likelihood of dropping out of high school.

    It's making an excuse for why this is the case that points the finger elsewhere other than on the people that are responsible.

    So basically it's white people's fault that blacks drop out of High School and commit crimes at a higher frequency than non blacks.

    Black people or the Black Culture don't want to take the blame for how it has become.
    They don't want to admit fatherless homes are the number one culprit in creating criminals. It's all the white Boogeyman not letting me get ahead. Political parties are manipulating them with these excuses.

    People don't like change and the more you tell them everything's good and nothing they're doing is wrong the less they're willing to change.

    I'd say it's political manipulation to keep them in the ghettos and not change and do better so that they remain a token voting block for the party that has put in there so the party can say they're not racist.
     
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    I lived in Japan and Korea for a year. Most of those items applied except it was all Asian and I was the minority. The difference? I didn't run around whining about "Asian privilege" Do the math, Renee, except in Euro-based countries, whites are the minority in the world. I'm not whining about that either. So who is doing the whining? Racists.

    https://ktwop.com/2014/07/26/the-changing-colour-of-the-world-population/
    I use the data from the medium scenario of the UN’s 2012 World Population Prospects and assign all countries a colour in 1950. In reality of course there is a mix of colours in most countries with the US possibly presenting the most significant “melting pot”. In any country, the changes to the colour mix comes primarily from immigration and only to a very minor extent from the genetic mixing of the colours. I arbitrarily assign colours and percentages to countries and regions as follows (1950 as the reference point):

    1. Pink – Northern Europe, Western Europe, Australia/New Zealand, N America 80%
    2. Beige – Central and Western Asia and Eastern Europe
    3. Olive – Southern Europe, Central America 80%, South America 70%
    4. Yellow – East Asia, SE Asia and Polynesia (excluding Australia/New Zealand), South America 10%
    5. Brown – Southern Asia
    6. Black – Africa, N America 20%, Caribbean, Central America 20%, South America 20%
    Of course this is just playing with the numbers. Of course there are mixtures of races in all countries. I could as well have included SE Asia in the brown as the yellow. My purpose is to picture the primary colours of the world population as they change and not to distinguish every hue.
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  20. Renee

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    Were white people viewed as inferior when you were in Japan? Were white people forced to be slaves and then segregated because they were inferior? Let’s try and stick to the United states
     
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    I bet you don’t think you have a bigoted bone in your body. Yes, them dumb black people letting white people keep them in the ghettos. Too bad they can’t think for themselves (sarcasm alert)
     
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    no I despise sushi.

    white people aren't keeping them in ghettos they could leave anytime they wanted.
     
  23. Renee

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    And you could be a billionaire if you wanted ..anytime.
    My students should have left the project and bought a townhouse on Park Avenue. I think you need a reality check as well as an empathy check,
     
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    Where does it exist?
     
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    Am I a racist?

    Because you know, I kind of agree with him.
     

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