I suppose if they serve free hot dogs and beer at a KKK rally free admission could be considered a privilege
Tons There are plenty of towns I can walk through without the police asking me why I am there. I don't get followed in high end department stores. I can hail a cab more easily in Manhattan and Washington DC No one questions where I was born and if I have "colonial ideology" If I play hockey I am not an oddity. I am less likely to get jail time for a drug charge People don't assume I am in my job because of affirmative action Should I go on?
I ask because I've been told I benefit from, 'white male privilege'. However I can't think of one instance where I've benefitted from this, 'white male privilege'. However I can think of times were my race and gender has not been beneficial. For example, I applied for a job on an indian reservation near where I grew up and on the application, in big red letters, 3 times the size of the other letters on the application that were not red but black, it said INDIAN PREFERANCE. Surely this is not an example of, 'white male privilege' surely right? I've also applied for jobs and all those jobs used affirmitive action, and I'm pretty sure affirmitive didn't improve my chances of getting one of those jobs-surely right? I mean, maybe I would have benifitted from affirmitive action if I had applied for a job in the NFL as a professional football player because 70% of the athletes in the NFL are African American despite the fact that only 10% of the population is African American. So surely I would have been likely to have been given a job in the NFL as a professional football player if I were to have applied for a position as a professional football player in the NFL-surely right? So I was wondering if there's a place I can go to complain that I haven't recieved my, 'white male privilege.' In fact my white maleness has been more detrimental, than it's been benificial. So obviously something is amiss and I would like the Office of White Male Privilege or (TOOWMP) to remedy the situation.
I've never been, but I'm sure it's quite possible that, 'Crab Canape' is something that would be served at a KKK rally
I see. Well, we both know the Left is demonizing you as a part of a group. But then, that's what communists always do.
I'm starting to come to the conclusion if you're a white male you would be crazy to vote for Democrats
Roger that. Blacks should reject them too, but they're too busy being bought off for pennies to see it. The Democratic party is as racist as it gets. .
And as an Asian man or woman you cannot do this? Maybe thats because affirmative action does not exist for White males?
So, in other words, you believe white men should be punished for what other white men did before they were born-right? Take note, if you vote for a Democrat, you're voting for this idea folks.
The xtians think everyone / everything is being punished for what their ancestors supposedly did. In a "Christian nation' this thing you complain of should be ok, right? It may of course, be entirely a matter of perspective to find that someone is being "punished" when they lose part of their position of special privilege. btw.. Those who are quick to squeal "ad hominem" are often guilty of several other logical fallacies, including one of the worst of all: the fallacious belief that introducing an impressive-sounding Latin term somehow gives one the decisive edge in an argument. http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
Now I get it! I thought you had some sort of personal grievance against Indians based on your crazed Does Apartheid Exist in America? thread. Now the rest of the puzzle has come together...
I don't have a problem with Native Americans. One of my best friends in highschool was Native American. Discrimination doesn't even bother me that much. It's the combination of being discriminated against and being told I benefit from white male privilege all at the same time that's maddening. It's one of the primary reasons I'm never voting for a Democrat ever again.
I thought the thread was about white men's privilege. Neither party is mine, not the Jackass or the Elephant.
But don't you see that you are exercising White Privilege? People of Color don't have that sort of choice to not vote for Democrats. If they vote, it's the Democratic Party ticket. You, on the other hand, flaunt your privilege because our society gives you a choice and doesn't judge you for choosing to vote for a non Democrat. People of Color are instantly attacked and judged for making that same choice.
But people of color with a functioning spine don't really give a damn what leftwingers say about them; and so there's that. I for instance was late in 'becoming' White (for a variety of reasons) and yet I would always have told people to go pound sand had they stated that due to the dark olive nature of my skin tone I owed it to myself to be a for-a-lifetime Democrat. But perhaps that's just me.
I usually have no problems either, but I'm not walking through towns at 2am either. Same here, but I dress like a professional, not a thug. And working in retail, we followed around a lot more tweakers (white) than black thugs same here, but I look like I'll tip better, I'm also not dressed like a thug (where I can hide weapons to rob the cab driver that stops for me) must be an austrailian thing here. I'm not entirely sure what that means or if it applies in the US kinda like a white running back http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?id=5820618 that's because the blacks have more priors in many of these cases. the "I went to jail for 20 years over pot" is misleading considering what he's in jail for is drugs on him while robbing a quickee mart better than getting beat out for a job you're more qualified for because of a.a. sure