No Such Thing As White Privilege

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THGRRI

Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:45 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Show me how White Males have it any easier when you take class out of the equation.

A well dressed and well spoken black man has as good of a chance as a well dressed white well spoken man at a job interview. Likely a better chance at a lot of larger corporations who benefit from hiring minorities. Go outside of any suburban area and you'll find plenty of uneducated whites in America who are far from well spoken.

A lot of black parents do damage to their employability with the names they give their children too. I won't say her name here, but I will say that one of the girls I worked with at Kmart used her middle name, and the rare occasion one of the day managers used her given name she got angry about it.

My point is, dress nicely for a job interview and do something about your ridiculous name if you have to, and you've got just as good a shot of getting a job as a white person. If you're female, your chances are even higher.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

First I want to say Jack, as usual, you base your beliefs on what you think rather than on facts. This shit is easy to find. In the future I will respond, look it up for yourself.

Whites doing better in this country was due solely to being here before the other cultures and in much greater numbers. Not forgetting the American Indian, so please, don't bother.

•"I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented."
•"When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is."
•"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."
•"I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time."
•"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."
•"I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me."
•"I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed."
•"If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege."

The concept of privilege refers to any advantage that is unearned, exclusive, and socially conferred. For example, white people are generally assumed to be law-abiding until they show some sign that they are not, while people of color are routinely assumed to be criminals or potential criminals until they show they’re not. One way to see this is through a survey in which respondents were asked to close their eyes and picture a drug dealer. When asked to describe what they saw, almost 95 percent mentioned a black person, even though the vast majority of drug dealers in the U.S. are white.

So, when it comes to being randomly stopped and frisked by police, anyone identified as ‘white’ has an advantage they did not earn and that is exclusive to whites. It is socially conferred in the sense that it depends on them being perceived in a particular way by the police—as ‘white’—before the advantage is given to them in the form of the assumption that they are not criminals.

It’s important to note that privilege does not guarantee good outcomes for the privileged group or bad outcomes for everyone else. A white person, for example, can work hard and have little to show for it, can be mistreated by the police without cause, be denied a job they’re qualified for. What privilege does is load the odds one way or the other so that the chance of bad things happening to white people as a category of people is much lower than for everyone else, and the chance of good things happening is much higher. Privilege is not something a person can have, like a possession, as in “Where’s mine?” Instead, it is a characteristic of the social system—like a

REAVERFAN

Friday, March 3, 2017 12:21 AM

It's somewhat amusing to watch known racists deny reality, but that's what our resident Nazis love to do. LOL!

THGRRI

Friday, March 3, 2017 12:40 AM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
It's somewhat amusing to watch known racists deny reality, but that's what our resident Nazis love to do. LOL!

I gotta tell ya reaverfan. I often find myself on the same side of an argument as you. Yet I find it hard to converse with you due to the way you continually use the term Nazi. It sends off a vibe of pure hate. I can't go there. Major dislike yeah, but not hate. Not all the time.

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DREAMTROVE

Friday, March 3, 2017 12:44 AM

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
It's somewhat amusing to watch known racists deny reality, but that's what our resident Nazis love to do. LOL!

So, Reaver, just out of curiosity, you vote for any of the three jews, the guy who said jews should make nazi wedding cakes, or the woman who said lets get the grimy jew bastards out of washington?

Yeah, I know, I know, don't feed them

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 3, 2017 3:45 AM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:
A very long post about how some whites in this country with Class Privilege have it good and then how that is applied by the regressive left to all whites, regardless of class.

I'm not reading all of that. I tried, but it's just bullshit.

I think you're confusing white guilt with white privilege.

I did take notice to your response to Reaverfan though, and I do appreciate somebody besides me saying something about his use of the word Nazi.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

THGRRI

Friday, March 3, 2017 3:55 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
A very long post about how some whites in this country with Class Privilege have it good and then how that is applied by the regressive left to all whites, regardless of class.

I'm not reading all of that. I tried, but it's just bullshit.

I think you're confusing white guilt with white privilege.

I did take notice to your response to Reaverfan though, and I do appreciate somebody besides me saying something about his use of the word Nazi.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Who are you quoting Jack? You claim it's me but I never said that. I've had a lot of trouble dealing with your many posts, that facts easily show to be wrong, but I never thought you to be a liar.

Trust me, no one who suffers from white guilt would have started this thread.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 3, 2017 4:26 AM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
A very long post about how some whites in this country with Class Privilege have it good and then how that is applied by the regressive left to all whites, regardless of class.

I'm not reading all of that. I tried, but it's just bullshit.

I think you're confusing white guilt with white privilege.

I did take notice to your response to Reaverfan though, and I do appreciate somebody besides me saying something about his use of the word Nazi.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Who are you quoting Jack? You claim it's me but I never said that. I've had a lot of trouble dealing with your many posts, that facts easily show to be wrong, but I never thought you to be a liar.

Trust me, no one who suffers from white guilt would have started this thread.

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Sorry... I paraphrased your very long post about nonsense. I thought that was apparent, but maybe I should have been more clear on that.

What "facts" are you talking about? That post didn't have any.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

THGRRI

Friday, March 3, 2017 4:49 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
A very long post about how some whites in this country with Class Privilege have it good and then how that is applied by the regressive left to all whites, regardless of class.

I'm not reading all of that. I tried, but it's just bullshit.

I think you're confusing white guilt with white privilege.

I did take notice to your response to Reaverfan though, and I do appreciate somebody besides me saying something about his use of the word Nazi.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Who are you quoting Jack? You claim it's me but I never said that. I've had a lot of trouble dealing with your many posts, that facts easily show to be wrong, but I never thought you to be a liar.

Trust me, no one who suffers from white guilt would have started this thread.

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Sorry... I paraphrased your very long post about nonsense. I thought that was apparent, but maybe I should have been more clear on that.

What "facts" are you talking about? That post didn't have any.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

When you do that others may take it as something I actually said. That's why we put it in quotes. Besides, what you say is not paraphrasing it's opinion giving, yours. Look at it again.

I never said I agreed with all the article said. I barely glanced at it myself. I only pasted it here because you are too lazy to look into the subject for yourself. Like I said, I don't believe in White privilege but being white in America does have it's advantages. In order to have an honest discussion with those who are not white, you have to understand that. Look into it, understanding culture privilege is not a slight against White people. The term White privilege is.

I'm glad to see the term liar still doesn't apply to you. Wish I could say that about others here.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 3, 2017 5:14 AM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:
When you do that others may take it as something I actually said. That's why we put it in quotes. Besides, what you say is not paraphrasing it's opinion giving, yours. Look at it again.

I never said I agreed with all the article said. I barely glanced at it myself. I only pasted it here because you are too lazy to look into the subject for yourself. Like I said, I don't believe in White privilege but being white in America does have it's advantages. In order to have an honest discussion with those who are not white, you have to understand that. Look into it, understanding culture privilege is not a slight against White people. The term White privilege is.

I'm glad to see the term liar still doesn't apply to you. Wish I could say that about others here.

Point taken, but quotes wouldn't have exactly worked either. Probably would have to start it off with "Paraphrased: " or something.

One of the funniest things I've noticed though are most of the people that talk about White Privilege are white people who don't actually have anything to do with any minorities and they love throwing out studies and statistics. It's usually whites who are also extremely well off who like to throw that term around. To me, that just sounds like guilt. Maybe white guilt isn't even the appropriate term. I think they're just guilty of the money they've got and they misinterpret their own class privilege for race privilege.

I've had many, many different types of jobs over the years and have worked several where I was the minority or even the only white person there. I didn't shy away from conversations regarding race when they came up, and I wasn't treated poorly by any of them because I was white. Most of them were great to work with. Some of them were dicks. I've worked with a lot of white dicks at other jobs too. Some people are just dicks.

I just don't agree with anybody who says that being white has its privleges anymore. This was true a few decades ago, but it's not the case anymore, and we're talking about right now. The white male, more than any demographic, is the person who has to walk on eggshells around everyone else. All of the laws regarding hiring practices and speech are against him now.

Just twice in the last 30 minutes you misinterpreted jokes I was making. Granted, sometimes it's hard reading things right in this format, and you and I don't exactly see eye to eye on much, but it happened nonetheless. At least you don't call me a nazi.

I'm not racist. I'm just getting tired of being treated like shit for nothing other than the color of my skin.

To the regressive left: Hey! I get it! It doesn't feel nice. Go talk to my dead great grandparents and how they might have treated blacks. 2 wrongs don't make a right and I don't deserve any of this bullshit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

THGRRI

Friday, March 3, 2017 5:26 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm not racist. I'm just getting tired of being treated like shit for nothing other than the color of my skin.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

That's the point of the thread Jack.

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