Just watched a college discussion with a few hundred college kids and professors offer up a host of ideas to combat the dreaded and mythical "white privilege".
The assertion is that white folks watch out for other white folks based solely on skin pigmentation. Thusly it's nearly impossible for non-whites to succeed because of this white privilege on the same level.
Oddly not addressed in the discussion was:
Gender privilege, Jewish privilege, Native American privilege, born wealthy privilege, born good looking privilege, intelligence privilege, educated privilege, good family privilege, black privilege, Hispanic privilege, European privilege, just being lucky privilege, tall privilege, not being related to Oprah privilege, my personal religious choice privilege, hard working privilege, gay privilege, straight privilege, living off the system and not working privilege and million other advantages.
Are there cases of white privilege? Probably so, I'm sure there are some folks out there who tend to give people who look and act like them some advantages. We can't measure it, point to it because it's based on suspicion.
To be honest, these type of advantages probably exist in all cultures. However we can point to a few documented cases.
Asian privilege for example. Turns out Asians earn more than white folks. In fact are accepted into the best colleges and universities by a wide margin. Princeton University did a study and founds Asians out-score nearly everyone in their SAT scores.
They found that (because of affirmative action) black are given 230 points while Asians must subtract 50 points. The privileged Asians still out perform black students. I have yet to figure out how to scream "unfair" on that one.
The white privilege argument is really a silly racist argument. It says if you are a certain skin color you should shut-up because you should have no opinion based on your skin color. The text book definition of racism. You simply can't fight racism with racism.
It's just another BS term the left has come up with. 25-30 years ago we were dealing with "post slavery syndrome" that was all the rage.
I find these ridiculous assertions to be racist, and intellectually insulting especially to people of color because they make an underlining assumption blacks need excuses to explain the over all lack of success.
your thoughts...
The assertion is that white folks watch out for other white folks based solely on skin pigmentation. Thusly it's nearly impossible for non-whites to succeed because of this white privilege on the same level.
Oddly not addressed in the discussion was:
Gender privilege, Jewish privilege, Native American privilege, born wealthy privilege, born good looking privilege, intelligence privilege, educated privilege, good family privilege, black privilege, Hispanic privilege, European privilege, just being lucky privilege, tall privilege, not being related to Oprah privilege, my personal religious choice privilege, hard working privilege, gay privilege, straight privilege, living off the system and not working privilege and million other advantages.
Are there cases of white privilege? Probably so, I'm sure there are some folks out there who tend to give people who look and act like them some advantages. We can't measure it, point to it because it's based on suspicion.
To be honest, these type of advantages probably exist in all cultures. However we can point to a few documented cases.
Asian privilege for example. Turns out Asians earn more than white folks. In fact are accepted into the best colleges and universities by a wide margin. Princeton University did a study and founds Asians out-score nearly everyone in their SAT scores.
They found that (because of affirmative action) black are given 230 points while Asians must subtract 50 points. The privileged Asians still out perform black students. I have yet to figure out how to scream "unfair" on that one.
The white privilege argument is really a silly racist argument. It says if you are a certain skin color you should shut-up because you should have no opinion based on your skin color. The text book definition of racism. You simply can't fight racism with racism.
It's just another BS term the left has come up with. 25-30 years ago we were dealing with "post slavery syndrome" that was all the rage.
I find these ridiculous assertions to be racist, and intellectually insulting especially to people of color because they make an underlining assumption blacks need excuses to explain the over all lack of success.
your thoughts...