General The contemptible concept of 'white privilege' is just ugly, angry racism

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Leigh

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so race doesnt exist but white privilege exists ?
Allah isn't real but you'll still get stoned to death for leaving Islam. Not everyone understand that their made up ideologies aren't real.
 

Yossarian

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Similarly, would those metrics be showing causation or correlation?

Incarceration is a good example. Is black incarceration high in America specifically because "the system is rigged", or is it because people from lower income backgrounds can't afford quality legal representation?
And because justice in the US is based solely on money. Money = Justice.
 
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Things like incarceration rates for the same crime/history, employment rates among equally qualified applicants etc would provide some metrics in those fields but who determines which fields are more important than others?
See that's why my hunch is that money and connections provide the privileges that can be measured. If someone is wealthy and connected, they can do whatever they want. I'm thinking of politicians in this regard.
But to put a positive spin on it and support my assertion, according to statistics in America people live longer in wealthier cities, regardless of ethnicity or gender.
 
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Similarly, would those metrics be showing causation or correlation?

Incarceration is a good example. Is black incarceration high in America specifically because "the system is rigged", or is it because people from lower income backgrounds can't afford quality legal representation?
Good point, it leads me to wonder what percentage of rural poor are caucasian. From my own experiences in Canada, the local RCMP (in various rural municipalities) are more inclined to "figure out" a way to keep the peace without locking people up every time they step out of bounds.
 

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The privilege of not having anyone else to blame.
 

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Lecturers to attend workshops to 'understand their white privilege' | Daily Mail Online

"University lecturers are being asked to attend workshops to help them understand how their ‘whiteness’ makes them unwittingly racist. Classes at UK universities are telling lecturers to acknowledge their ‘white privilege’ and examine the idea that white people enjoy advantages in life simply because of the colour of their skin."

Yikes.
 

Yossarian

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While I agree, I have to say if you take away the money aspect would it really tilt the numbers? Especially as major crimes like murder are concerned?
Well, if everybody had the money to defend themselves they would go for plea deals. That is for starters an increase of justice, regardless of the outcome. Justice isn't even there for all right now. We'll know once justice is truly for all.
 

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Lecturers to attend workshops to 'understand their white privilege' | Daily Mail Online

"University lecturers are being asked to attend workshops to help them understand how their ‘whiteness’ makes them unwittingly racist. Classes at UK universities are telling lecturers to acknowledge their ‘white privilege’ and examine the idea that white people enjoy advantages in life simply because of the colour of their skin."

Yikes.



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A North Carolina mother is questioning her son's elementary school after the second-grader brought home a sheet detailing white privilege.

Amber Pabon said her eight-year-old brought home the paper from Hunter Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh. The school said it was sent home with students by the PTA and was not a lesson taught in class.


"He's 8 years old. What does he need to know about racism or white privilege?" Pabon asked.
 

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If they want to make white supremacists they're headed in the right direction.
I guess that's what they say happened with the Nazis, right? German people were told they were shit after WW1 for decades and then Hitler comes along talking about how not only are they not shit, they're the greatest? Maybe that's not what happened, but either way divisive shit like this will lead to bad things.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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I guess that's what they say happened with the Nazis, right? German people were told they were shit after WW1 for decades and then Hitler comes along talking about how not only are they not shit, they're the greatest? Maybe that's not what happened, but either way divisive shit like this will lead to bad things.
That's not entirely accurate, but you're certainly in the ballpark. You're last sentence however, is a home run.
 

Shy Guy

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It's ok to be white, fellas.
 

Greek777

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I dunno man, I think it's pretty real especially in some circumstances.

Doesn't mean you should be ashamed of yourself or anything though.
 
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I dunno man, I think it's pretty real especially in some circumstances.

Doesn't mean you should be ashamed of yourself or anything though.
It's one of those things that just because we think it exists, doesn't mean it does. It's divisive and as others have mentioned, it will swing the pendulum the other way, in time.
It's so obvious that this will happen that I have to wonder if it (this white-privilege bullshit) isn't by design.