What is white privilege?

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  1. bwk

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    Low IQ, poor impulse control and no future time orientation on your side is about all the argument I really need and it's there in large doses. Camden, Gary, E. St Louis, Birmingham and just about every place where there is a large majority of blacks is about all the evidence I need. Not a single success story here. Not one anywhere.
     
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    The OP states that white names get a privilege on the job market.
    And there is a list of the top 20 white boy and girls names to be found if you google it.

    Nothing to be denied about this. Not doding a thing.
    You're dodging reality when denying and questioning this.
     
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    And I state the White privilege is a fantasy invented by liberals and blacks for poor performance.
     
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    Maybe when those black communities get to enslave white people for a couple of hundred years, than apply apartheid for some more... than things "might" be a bit different. Just might.

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    There is no fantasy that white names are privileged on the job market. It's a fact that it is like that.
    That is white privilege right there.
     
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    A simple solution would be to not use names like Buckwheat or Tbone. Sorta solves everything doesn't it?
     
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    White privilege:

    Being born into the majority as opposed to the minority.

    Also, it means being responsible for slavery that happened hundreds of years ago.

    That should cover it.
     
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    Chanda Chisala was the researcher that wrote the article I refer to, and in her bibliography the two names you researched don't even come up. I therefore don't know what you are talking about.

    I realize the article is difficult to read, but the stats indicate that there are pockets of black Africans that excel whites in both physical and intellectual abilities.
    However, they also indicate that African blacks are the ones making statistical progress in our top universities, not American ones.

    Your resistance to input and dependence on proofs of "tainted" sources instead of bothering to read and respond to the actual article are noted, and go a long way toward explaining why the article finds the results it does. A full cup cannot hold more, and those with preset attitudes and beliefs can't, either.
     
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    It's the only argument you'll need, because it is the only argument you will accept. Not accepting or debating statistical data while having none of your own to compare with, along with playing the "no show" Trump card with personal attacks as your only line of defense, is akin to talking to a bare fence post, with about as much IQ as it can produce.
     
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    What statistical data do I need? Camden, Philly, Baltimore, East St. Louis, Birmingham, Detroit etc are all large majority Black populations that inherited a infrastructure created by Whites. Yet there is still a huge fail. There is never a success, and never a shortage of excuses for the failures.
     
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    Don't think we're not getting the picture of the way your racist thinking is going.
     
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    Not only that but your address (if you live in the ghetto/trailer park, yes they google the address) , pedigree, credit report, whether you tithe for the 700 club, male, or can lift 50 pounds on a daily basis.
    I deal with it...an so what.
    Adapt or die, People with power are screwed up(HR department), You guys who deny white privilege are about as dumb as people who deny pregnant woman get special treatment.
    It's like an episode I saw on Jessica Jones...The dude never even knew he had Mutant powers of persuasion till he got older and said to him self "this isn't right" when one day he told a dude to "go screw him self"...You can guess what happened next.
     
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    Considering the large number of passionate responses, this thread has stirred up a hornet's nest.

    After reading many of these posts, it became obvious to me that those adamantly insisting that racism no longer exists in any form are harboring prejudices and proliferating racial bias.

    True Americans believe in equality, and it should be the responsibility of each one of us to promote and defend it. Those who abhor discrimination and unfair persecution should note the predominant political persuasion of those saying that they don't exist.
     
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    They don't think they are Racists but they are to a degree.

    They are not past educating and I will not discard such friends if I think they are salvageable.

    I would not associate myself with a hardcore racists.

    People have to understand that many Whites make and think in a racist way all the time even if they are not even aware of it.

    They want to do the right thing....but just like most Black Fathers want to be their for their kid's....they are NOT...and it is the same for the way these friends are racists and don't even know they are.

    I have NEVER been racists although I have had to endure some people calling me racist because I called out those of Color who were not qualified for a JOB.

    Instead I got...YOUR JUST RACISTS!!! Well...I am not....they were just not qualified!!

    Many of my Team Members who I have hand picked over the years were Black and Southern White and Asian...etc....and I chose them all for one reason among others.....THEIR ABILITY TO WORK WITH ANYONE OF ABILITY AND NOT HAVE AN ISSUE OF THEIR RACE, RELIGION OR NATIONALITY!!!

    I have CUT ppr choices made by me and the moment they began to make it into a race think I KNEW I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE BY LETTING THEM GO!!

    Several I had let go promised me they would work harder and hoped that someday in the future they would hope I would give them another chance to make the Team!

    And I have selected 6 members who at one time I had to let go and of those 6....2 of them were with me on the last JOB!

    AboveAlpha
     
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    Many Wealthy White American's are racists and they don't even know it!!

    They want to do the right thing but they just don't get it.

    The people I sometimes hand with are not beyond the ability to change and I do work on them.

    They an do a lot of good.....but they are not racists on purpose or even know they are being racist. They just don't know any better.

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    And we should also take note of the Marxist sympathies of those that like to encourage populations with problems to think of themselves as being victims that need to be "rescued" by them.

    Sure there is still carryover from past history, but it is past history and our culture was moving on nicely until Ferguson and BLM. It's pretty obvious that some have made a point of giving our present President a hard time and that some of this could be due to race, but he has been President for seven years and much of his opposition is political, not racial.

    It is not the outcry that was unacceptable, but the destructiveness and obnoxious racism the police persecution and the BLM expressed that caused resentment, not to mention the ongoing murders of totally innocent policemen, often the best ones, that has been occurring since. The lust for blood money from often unfounded lawsuits has also been noted.

    Those whose families were never part of the exploitative wealthy class that has run things in this country since its founding do not appreciate being classed in with those wealthy, advantaged individuals, and blamed for all of their evils, just because some of us happen to share their skin color. We have suffered from them as well. I don't feel like being capped in some dumb "knockout game" because some idiot has read some article twisting history to make it look like everyone other than blacks in this country is a victimizer.

    Many US blacks, possibly as many as 70%, persist in behaviors that continue to put them in a "one down" situation. It is time everyone in the US realizes that life is hard and we are in hard times. Male blacks can't continue to exploit their women instead of helping them rear their own kids and expect to see their population amount to anything. Approximately 30% of them are doing fine--the 30% of them that are following basic middle class morality and getting married, keeping a family unit together, cooperatively raising their kids with their wives, encouraging same kids to attend and do well in school, avoiding drugs, purchasing their own homes, establishing savings accounts, trying to get stable civil service jobs that offer job protection and savings opportunities, etc etc. The other 70% appear to be trying to fashion themselves after Miami Vice.

    It's not true that black males can't "afford to marry". That is one middle class virtue that has gone by the wayside in the present economy. Many, many white working and middle class males get out of the military and can't find a decent job, so they stay home and take care of the kids and let their wives bring home the paycheck.

    It is not necessary to abandon a woman and child to welfare unless both parents are totally incapable people, and if this is the case they have no business reproducing until they grow up. A majority of whites figured this out a long time ago. I support a requirement to demonstrate proof of adequate long term contraception (eg an IUD or implantable) for a woman to get welfare to care for a child. It's time to stop this madness. As long as it continues blacks will never get ahead financially; they will just increase the numbers of incapable, half-raised, feral kids in their population and then continue to use the statistics they generate to prove how ill treated they all are. I've seen this process first hand repeatedly and it is disgusting.

    Indulging the "woe is me" crowd just makes them focus more on victimization issues than present time realities and opportunities. It's counterproductive, except in a therapeutic setting, where a mixed crowd is not helpful. There are issues blacks need to deal with therapeutically that whites can't help them with, because, not having experienced being a minority or having a slave ancestry, most whites can't generate enough appropriate sympathy to be adequately supportive. Consciousness raising, support groups, and catharsis are good, but incomplete catharsis is dangerous. At its deepest this is a therapeutic issue that we do not need to see playing out on our streets and in our police stations--and we don't need troublemakers posing as do-gooders triggering it, either.
     
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    Hey...so far you are the ONLY MEMBER to be able to answer my easy Algebra Question!!!

    Makes me wonder how can so many people be authorities on what should or should not be taught in schools when they cannot answer one of the SIMPLEST AND MOST BASIC OF ALL ALGEBRA QUESTIONS!!???

    AboveAlpha
     
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    White males don't stay home and take care of the kids. The white males go to work to support the family because they're able to secure employment without facing anti-white racial prejudice that results in economic discrimination against them (i.e. they're the beneficiaries of "white privilege" in America).

    End the anti-black racial prejudice and economic discrimination and then the black males can also go to work and support the household just like their white male counterparts.
     
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    Considering the sheer amount of money actors make.....
     
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    So essentially you are saying - There is no way anyone can identify which organization is a "WASP Male Supremacy" and which one is not.
    You just bluntly ignoring the fact that many organisations are far far from WASP, many of them especially technology companies run by absolutely non WASP males and females.
    That means you have no interest of getting rid of racism but instead you are cultivating racism as a source of personal satisfaction and an income.
     
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    That is exactly what I did.
    e.g. http://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/f...-facts/Quick_Facts_Section_924c_Offenders.pdf
    But unfortunately there is absolutely nothing that reveal bias or show examples on how courts were bias against people of African American descent.
    Sure politicians (most of them are people without scientific degree) can interpret those data however they want, but the value of their finding is zero.

    Like I said before, you are not interested in solving the problem, all you care is to maintain a status of eternally offended person to get cheap political score and may be material reward once in a while.
     
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    That is exactly what people of African descent (who recently immigrated from Africa) are doing. Overwhelming majority of them have jobs, they have families and careers. Probably they are doing it because they are not aware about racial prejudice.
    In fact for 20 years I live in the community where about half of people are African immigrants, and I have no problem to live among those people, because I know that they are exactly as I am, they work hard, they go to school get education and find good jobs.

    All you have to do to eliminate "anti-black racial prejudice" is to stop paying taxpayers money for whining about "anti-black prejudice".
     
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    I wasn't complaining about Hollywood not being Black enough. I was making a point- that the presence of rich Blacks...or a Black president...does not mean there is no racism. There were rich Black singers and actors during the Civil Rights period. There was Black, gold-medal winning athletes allowed to perform for the US...during a pretty racist US. Mohammad Ali...Boxing champion...protested racism in America as well.

    Of Jews...I mentioned nothing. I can understand why you would get riled up about it, though.
     
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    Oh please no you are trying to spin obvious antisemtism.

    Its no secret which group of people owns Hollywood and it aint white anglo-saxon protestants. Its clear to anyone exactly who you are complaining about in that post. So the question becomes why do you hate the jews.
     
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    It's nothing compared to the owners. Much like sports, if the players get paid, who's writing the checks.
     
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