My white privilege

[theHawk]

So, back on topic.

White privilege does not exist. Now change my mind.

White Privilege does exist. You live in Western Civilization, built by white people. You don’t have to hunt for food, you have electricity and indoor plumbing. You use technology such as vehicles and computers. You live in a nation of laws so you are relative safe. All these things were created by white people. This is the white privilege you have inherited from your white ancestors.

Blacks and other “people of color”, also benefit from living in Western Civilization. We have been nice enough to allow them residency and even citizenship with all the same rights as us. The fact that they continue to live here, and more from third world countries try to get into Western countries, proves that White Privilege exists, because they want some of it.

The radicals that are giving you grief about your White Privilege are jealous, hateful people. They not only want it for themselves, they want to take it away from you and all other whites.

So do us all a favor, stop pretending White Privilege doesn’t exist. It may not be what the left is claiming it is, you having some advantage over non-whites. But it does exist, it’s just called Western Civilization. They hate it, they want to destroy it. So stop pretending it doesn’t exist, and instead be proud of White Privilege, aka Western Civilization, and tell them to go pound sand if they have a problem with it.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

If Oprah Winfrey can look at a poor white child from Appalachia and feel oppressed you don't have a chsnce.

 

[Seawytch]

Because I'm a liberal helper

How to Explain White Privilege in Terms Simple Enough for a Child

The term white privilege is often misunderstood. But experts explain why it's important to teach your children what it means and how to do that based on their age.

www.parents.com

It Doesn't Mean That All White People Have Had an Easy Life​

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The common misperception about white privilege is that it implies that being white inherently makes for a life of smooth sailing and that successes aren't hard-earned. People might associate the phrase with financial wealth or other types of privilege that they don't/didn't have, explains Dr. Garrett-Akinsanya.​

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"Some white people deny that advantages are unearned," notes Erin Pahlke, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology at Whitman College, whose research centers on how children form their views about race. "Often, these people see their own successes as entirely a result of their own hard work and others' struggles as a result of not working hard enough. And some folks mistakenly believe that they can't be privileged because they themselves have suffered personal life hardships."​

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Denial of white privilege might also stem from another belief: that the U.S. operates as a meritocracy, or a system in which you're rewarded exclusively for ability and effort, as opposed to wealth and social class. "There's some research that suggests that white parents are more likely than Black parents to teach their children that the U.S. is a meritocracy," explains Dr. Pahlke. "And, for people who strongly believe that the U.S. is a meritocracy, white privilege can be a hard concept to accept."​

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The misinterpretation of the term is fairly widespread. According to 2017 findings from the Pew Research Center, 46 percent of white Americans say they believe they benefit because of their race, compared to 92 percent of Black Americans and 65 percent of Hispanic Americans who believe that white people benefit.​

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"Because the advantages are so structurally ingrained, privileges are often unconscious and perceived as being unremarkable," explains Dr. Garrett-Akinsanya. "White privilege has a legacy of racism and is a cause of it, too."​

That's not what far leftists mean when they hit you with that term. It is a term made to foist guilt on someone for being white. The very phrase "white privilege" is demeaning and derogatory. It is tantamount to calling a black person a ni**er. And yes, I would have every bit the same right to be offended by the usage of such a term to define people of my racial background.

It is meant to minimize any and all suffering and hardship endured by someone of the Caucasian race.

I'm not falling for that garbage doublespeak you just cited.

Thanks in advance.

So you feel guilty about your white privilege? And, no, it is nothing like using a racial epithet. Again, because I am a liberal helper...

Understanding white privilege: 20 everyday examples

A lesson in how white people benefit from and contribute to structural racism

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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 neighbours 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 “civilisation,” I am shown that people of my colour 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 colour 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 colour who constitute the world’s majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.
17. I can criticise our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behaviour 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.

I agree, and some of that I'd plead guilty to. But I don't think it really addresses TK's point in the OP. I thought he was more about addressing how white and black (and others) gain or don't gain governmental preferences, and the effects of how much money people have, and don't have.

Then his argument isn’t about “white privilege”, it is about privilege.

Exactly.

But when you put the term "White" in the formula. it becomes a racism issue.....not one that can actually be addressed properly

Loughlin did not apply white privelege. She applied privelege based on financial standing

It isn't a "racism issue" to recognize certain privileges come with having white skin.

 

[bendog]

Because I'm a liberal helper

How to Explain White Privilege in Terms Simple Enough for a Child

The term white privilege is often misunderstood. But experts explain why it's important to teach your children what it means and how to do that based on their age.

www.parents.com

It Doesn't Mean That All White People Have Had an Easy Life​

​

The common misperception about white privilege is that it implies that being white inherently makes for a life of smooth sailing and that successes aren't hard-earned. People might associate the phrase with financial wealth or other types of privilege that they don't/didn't have, explains Dr. Garrett-Akinsanya.​

​

"Some white people deny that advantages are unearned," notes Erin Pahlke, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology at Whitman College, whose research centers on how children form their views about race. "Often, these people see their own successes as entirely a result of their own hard work and others' struggles as a result of not working hard enough. And some folks mistakenly believe that they can't be privileged because they themselves have suffered personal life hardships."​

​

Denial of white privilege might also stem from another belief: that the U.S. operates as a meritocracy, or a system in which you're rewarded exclusively for ability and effort, as opposed to wealth and social class. "There's some research that suggests that white parents are more likely than Black parents to teach their children that the U.S. is a meritocracy," explains Dr. Pahlke. "And, for people who strongly believe that the U.S. is a meritocracy, white privilege can be a hard concept to accept."​

​

The misinterpretation of the term is fairly widespread. According to 2017 findings from the Pew Research Center, 46 percent of white Americans say they believe they benefit because of their race, compared to 92 percent of Black Americans and 65 percent of Hispanic Americans who believe that white people benefit.​

​

"Because the advantages are so structurally ingrained, privileges are often unconscious and perceived as being unremarkable," explains Dr. Garrett-Akinsanya. "White privilege has a legacy of racism and is a cause of it, too."​

That's not what far leftists mean when they hit you with that term. It is a term made to foist guilt on someone for being white. The very phrase "white privilege" is demeaning and derogatory. It is tantamount to calling a black person a ni**er. And yes, I would have every bit the same right to be offended by the usage of such a term to define people of my racial background.

It is meant to minimize any and all suffering and hardship endured by someone of the Caucasian race.

I'm not falling for that garbage doublespeak you just cited.

Thanks in advance.

So you feel guilty about your white privilege? And, no, it is nothing like using a racial epithet. Again, because I am a liberal helper...

Understanding white privilege: 20 everyday examples

A lesson in how white people benefit from and contribute to structural racism

www.harpersbazaar.com

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 neighbours 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 “civilisation,” I am shown that people of my colour 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 colour 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 colour who constitute the world’s majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.
17. I can criticise our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behaviour 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.

I agree, and some of that I'd plead guilty to. But I don't think it really addresses TK's point in the OP. I thought he was more about addressing how white and black (and others) gain or don't gain governmental preferences, and the effects of how much money people have, and don't have.

Then his argument isn’t about “white privilege”, it is about privilege.

Exactly.

But when you put the term "White" in the formula. it becomes a racism issue.....not one that can actually be addressed properly

Loughlin did not apply white privelege. She applied privelege based on financial standing

It isn't a "racism issue" to recognize certain privileges come with having white skin.

I don't think SC was really saying they didn't. But I agree. One can't simply dismiss that there are privileges that come with being white. But they aren't the result of govt giving preference on race. jmo Have a nice weekend. At least its not freezing.

 

[JoeB131]

He was losing his job anyway

the fake hate crime was an attempt to make himself too celebrated to get rid of

Actually, there was no plan to write out his character from the show before he pulled THAT stunt. He was tring to get more money, and it was dumb. There might even be mental illness involved, which makes him a figure to be pitied.

I remember you were going on about your white privilege. If you didn't have that, you would be a useless, broke unemployed loser instead of just the useless loser you are in life now.

@TemplarKormac said he could use some of the white privilege you rely on. Can't you be a dude and hook him up?

Naw, man, I realize that being white gave me huge advantages, but unlike Templar, I didn't spend them all day sitting on the couch playing videogames.

I joined the army to get a college education.
I worked shitty jobs during recessions and better jobs when the economy got better.

But I'm enough of a realist to know if I had been born Jamal instead of Joseph, that climb would have been a lot harder.

but you do go on and obsess about me.. .it's what you're good at.

 

[Mac-7]

There might even be mental illness involved, which makes him a figure to be pitied.

Pitied my ass

he committed a hate crime that could have led to the death of an innocent white person

Smollott belongs in jail

 

[MeBelle]

While he made a good salary he also lost money because he didn’t get paid time and a half and double time for working overtime as he had as a work director.

That's part of being paid salary. (no matter what color, creed, etc one is )

He probably shouldn't have taken the promotion.

 

[Batcat]

While he made a good salary he also lost money because he didn’t get paid time and a half and double time for working overtime as he had as a work director.

That's part of being paid salary. (no matter what color, creed, etc one is )

He probably shouldn't have taken the promotion.

He suffered from diabetes and I think the stress he was under helped to ruin his health further. He died after about five years into his promotion.

 

[JoeB131]

Pitied my ass

he committed a hate crime that could have led to the death of an innocent white person

Smollott belongs in jail

Uh, how could it have "led" to the death of anyone?

The thing was, no one really believed him from the Get.

 

[Mac-7]

Uh, how could it have "led" to the death of anyone?

By contributing to the climate of grievance and hate within the black community toward white people

 

[WTH_Progs?]

My white privilege today I bid heavy on the last of five white privilege vintage black light posters, personal favorites. All reunited what I bought in the first place. In my day we went out and earned a buck as teens, in my case lawns and paper routes 8-12 years old, next on the clock. Shit even babysat for many before clock. Most formal education can KMA, work & set priorities, apply math & desire.

Next thing you know you can throw stupid money at the 5th of five, this one comes expensive. By coincidence I found the 4th of five just last week. First rarely comes up nice, the last one is a freak.

 

[JoeB131]

By contributing to the climate of grievance and hate within the black community toward white people

Hey, I think cops shooting kids in the back when they are lying on the ground probably has more to do with that.

 

[Mac-7]

Hey, I think cops shooting kids in the back when they are lying on the ground probably has more to do with that.

Sometimes its black cops shooting the black kids

sometimes its black cops shooting white kids

99.99% of cops are just doing their job combating crime in black neighborhoods

but the left for partisan political purposes chooses to whip up a political issue

 

[kaz]

He was losing his job anyway

the fake hate crime was an attempt to make himself too celebrated to get rid of

Actually, there was no plan to write out his character from the show before he pulled THAT stunt. He was tring to get more money, and it was dumb. There might even be mental illness involved, which makes him a figure to be pitied.

I remember you were going on about your white privilege. If you didn't have that, you would be a useless, broke unemployed loser instead of just the useless loser you are in life now.

@TemplarKormac said he could use some of the white privilege you rely on. Can't you be a dude and hook him up?

Naw, man, I realize that being white gave me huge advantages, but unlike Templar, I didn't spend them all day sitting on the couch playing videogames.

I joined the army to get a college education.
I worked shitty jobs during recessions and better jobs when the economy got better.

But I'm enough of a realist to know if I had been born Jamal instead of Joseph, that climb would have been a lot harder.

but you do go on and obsess about me.. .it's what you're good at.

Depends if when you are Jamal if you still have the shitty attitude you have as a white guy. That's your real disadvantage in life. You make the people around you want to get away from being around someone like you who craps on life all the time

 

[WTH_Progs?]

My white privilege today I bid heavy on the last of five white privilege vintage black light posters, personal favorites. All reunited what I bought in the first place. In my day we went out and earned a buck as teens, in my case lawns and paper routes 8-12 years old, next on the clock. Shit even babysat for many before clock. Most formal education can KMA, work & set priorities, apply math & desire.

Next thing you know you can throw stupid money at the 5th of five, this one comes expensive. By coincidence I found the 4th of five just last week. First rarely comes up nice, the last one is a freak.

My white privilege wasn't enough today, wholly shit went for over $500. I have a small version, 11x17, in principle I'll never blow $500 on a poster. I'm only in $340 for the five I got and four are NOS.

 

[JoeB131]

Sometimes its black cops shooting the black kids

sometimes its black cops shooting white kids

Sometimes? When did this happen?

Depends if when you are Jamal if you still have the shitty attitude you have as a white guy. That's your real disadvantage in life. You make the people around you want to get away from being around someone like you who craps on life all the time

I love living in your head, buddy. But wrong as usual. Most of my coworkers love me. I've gotten a few job offers because someone I worked with in the past recommended me for a job that just opened. A couple of companies I've quit have tried to rehire me.

I don't have any disadvantages, because I never give up and I never back down.

 

[Mac-7]

Sometimes? When did this happen?

Many of the police officers indicted by the liberal mob were blavk

 

[j-mac]

I am white. If privilege applied to me because of my skin color, I would be earning a high 5 figure income with a degree from a college of my choosing on the back of a full-ride scholarship. My privilege would have shielded me from some of the dumbest decisions I ever made in my life. I wouldn't be here dedicating almost 80% of mine and my grandmother's monthly income to bills and survival. We don't enjoy any privilege because of our skin color. Being white never made our lives any easier.

We are a lower-middle-class family who barely has enough money to make ends meet. If there was a privilege, we never knew about it. I am sure the billions of white people who existed in the world before me and throughout history who suffered from

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... would have loved to have known about the privilege their skin color supposedly imbued them with. Maybe it would have spared their lives and shielded them from unnecessary suffering. White privilege is hogwash. It reeks of jealousy and has no basis in reality.

My white privilege does not exist.

For the sake of discussion...look at the possible other side.

"White privilege" doesn't mean there aren't poor white people...but maybe in can mean the difference between the frying pan and the fire.

I'm thinking, for example, of the justice syste

Your statement: "My privilege would have shielded me from some of the dumbest decisions I ever made in my life."

Maybe, if you had been poor AND black....your "dumb" decisions would have landed you in the juvenile justice system and from their the adult justice system in a downward spiral hitting up against laws like 3 strikes.

It's pretty much proven that black youth's are much more likely to be incarcerated than white youth's for the same crimes. So, that might be a more realistic way to see what white privelege is even though for many it's not much of a privilege.

Another example might be one aspect of poverty itself.

One of the factors that has made black poverty so entrenched is through a systemic system of laws and of violence (white race riots) towards black property owners and businesses and homes and communities that destroyed wealth and the ability to pass it to their children and so on. So as a community - whites (in general) have not had to endure that. Poverty has a lot of causes of course, some in our control, some not. But I think that is one example how race was a factor.

Another one could be this. Even though you and your grandmother are poor? Do you live in a fairly safe neighborhood? Redlining, a practice of maintaining racial segregation in the housing market often relegated black families to the worse neighborhoods - neighborhoods more likely to have the town landfill and other nice amenities located nearby, areas that white people left when black people moved in. When those areas begin to reflect the changing home values, more renters than homeowners, crime increases, incomes go down, people are stuck. Maybe white privilege in poverty means the difference between being poor in a dangerous community or poor in a somewhat safer one.

Just thoughts on a different way of looking at it

And who you know, grew up knowing and who your parents knew in the community while growing up. It is isn't everything. You still have to prove your value and ability, but it is something.

So, you're saying that black people don't have the ability to network? Wow...That's kinda racist...

 

[j-mac]

Sometimes its black cops shooting the black kids

sometimes its black cops shooting white kids

Sometimes? When did this happen?

Depends if when you are Jamal if you still have the shitty attitude you have as a white guy. That's your real disadvantage in life. You make the people around you want to get away from being around someone like you who craps on life all the time

I love living in your head, buddy. But wrong as usual. Most of my coworkers love me. I've gotten a few job offers because someone I worked with in the past recommended me for a job that just opened. A couple of companies I've quit have tried to rehire me.

I don't have any disadvantages, because I never give up and I never back down.

" A new peer-reviewed study of fatal police shootings says that white officers are not more likely to shoot and kill minority suspects. "

 

[JoeB131]

Many of the police officers indicted by the liberal mob were blavk

Name some.