Is White Privilege Real?

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  1. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It often is useful to listen to the chattering classes.
    Listen to various races discussing this.

    I do not believe there is such a thing as white privilege's.

    What is causing the error is that the majority are not black or even Hispanic.
    While the majority is more nuanced, the way white privilege is discussed is a pejorative.

    This leads to wrong headed thinking.
    Don't you agree?

     
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    I think what leads us to the idea that there is no white privilege is not living as a minority. The room always looks different when sitting on the other side
     
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    There are some level headed people in that video. I'm surprised.
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Did you not notice blacks denying that?
     
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    This seems to be a popular subject for some given the number of threads on it. It’s quite the obsession.
     
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    Denying what? That the room looks different?
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I believe two blacks denied there is white privilege. Did you forget that?
     
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    Is it real?

    Yes.

    Does it mean that all white people have it easier in life, didn't earn what they have, should feel guilt, shame, or other negative emotions, etc etc? Not at all.

    The concept of white privilege is legit. It's being used to virtue signal and bitch slap people with is not.
     
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    Two out of how many? I think there were 7 or 8 people in the video. Nothing scientific at all about those stats.
     
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    The question is stupid because even if white privilege exists, it’s impossible to quantify or specify it and if you can’t do that then actual policy changes are worthless.

    in point of fact accusations of white privilege are so myopic that proposed solutions are completely racist in and of themselves.

    The question isn’t whether there is white privilege or not, it’s: is white privilege an excuse for being a murderer, druggie, rapist pathetic human being waiting for his free money?

    And the answer to that is “no”. Get off your worthless black butts as so many other blacks have done and make something of yourselves. Grow up, get out of your ghettos and your gangs, be good dads for your kids, and turn your disgusting culture into one that isn’t filled with celebrating every crime we have a law for.
     
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    So you don't believe store detectives don't follow around black shoppers in fancy department stores or that white cops don't pay a lot more attention to black motorists than to white??? The over 100 year old insurance company I worked for did not hire their first black man until the 1960's. They had begun hiring black women ten years earlier.
     
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    There is equal protection of the law. If you compare any group of individuals you can think of one will always be better off than the other.
     
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    When you are 13 percent of the population and committing over 50 percent of homicides the guess what
    Cops are more likely to pull you over
    Deal!
     
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    That has nothing to do with skin color.
     
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    What did blacks do to achieve such a record?

    When I worked in construction we had some black Pilebutts in the union that I worked with from time to time. I was around laborers all the time and a lot of them were black hires.

    Though the number of blacks is around 13 percent, what is the crime rate for that 13%??
     
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    they were employed. Those are not the same ones committing the crimes. Even successful black millionaire rappers are shooting each other
    I know this is gonna hurt. But black American culture could use a serious evaluation
     
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    What case do you want to make on this topic?
     
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    Short and simple. I do not believe in white privilege.

    Back in the old days of Democrats ruling the South, then there was at that time.
     
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    20 years from now they will say "well, sure in the 2010s and 20s there was white privilege, it was obvious, but clearly not now"
     
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    there is 'being rich' privilege

    not so much white or black privilege
     
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    You don't have to believe in it for it to be true. This isn't your own personal make-believe land, this is objective reality.
     
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    Things are better these days - but in the past there was some serious WP .. :)
     
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    You mean racism and discrimination? Yeah that tends to get people talking. Especially when the left wants to codify it into law.
     

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