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"One of the most distinct characteristics of white privilege is the privilege to be unique. When white people commit violent acts, they are treated as aberrations, slips described with adjectives that show they are unusual and in no way representative of the broader racial group to which they belong.
In fact, in much of the coverage of the Waco shootings, the race of the gang members isn't even mentioned,"
"One of the most distinct characteristics of white privilege is the privilege to be unique. When white people commit violent acts, they are treated as aberrations, slips described with adjectives that show they are unusual and in no way representative of the broader racial group to which they belong.
In fact, in much of the coverage of the Waco shootings, the race of the gang members isn't even mentioned,"
So, since the majority population is white, and blacks are about 13-15% of the total population, and Hispanics are about the same, unless the race is mentioned, I assume it's a white person - white privilege, I guess.
When the report said "biker gangs" nobody I know thought that meant the Crips or the Bloods, and while there are some minority "biker gangs" they are so rare as to make it laughable to claim anybody would assume these thugs were anything but white once they were tagged as "biker gangs."
When the news was reported and they said 'bikers', the first thing I thought was white thugs wearing leather or denim jackets. I didn't think it was a double standard because they didn't say 'white bikers'.
But it looks like there will be an over abundance of 'bikes' at the police impound yard.
Look, there's no need to mention the race. When people hear "biker gang" people automatically assume middle-aged white guy. I even asked someone at work (not white) about it, and she thinks this whole not mentioning the race thing is ridiculous.
"One of the most distinct characteristics of white privilege is the privilege to be unique. When white people commit violent acts, they are treated as aberrations, slips described with adjectives that show they are unusual and in no way representative of the broader racial group to which they belong.
In fact, in much of the coverage of the Waco shootings, the race of the gang members isn't even mentioned,"
I don't have the tweet to link here, but I saw a BlackLivesMatter tweet tonight that called them "skinhead gangs", said they were "hanging out" with the police afterwards, why no National Guard?, etc. All claiming some huge racial inconsistency. F*****ck me, lol. First off they're "biker gangs", not "skinhead gangs". They chose "skinheads" because they thought it would incorrectly conger up the image of evil White people. Secondly, the cops allegedly shot and killed many of them. We have to wait for the full autopsy report, but the initial reports claim the cops killed several people and presumably shot others. They didn't just back off and let them have run of the town. On top of that, the "Bandidos" (Bandits in English) and the others like the "Vagos" (Bums in English), down in Waco Texas, or Arizona, or Southern California, or wherever, seem to have an awful lot of Brown members for a racist White group judging by the mug shots. To even call them "White biker gangs" doesn't really seem appropriate, does it? Look at those mug shots. There are a LOT of members who are clearly Latinos, or perhaps Mexicans more specifically. Lastly, they wear a patch that says 1%. That identifies them as being the 1% of bikers who are career outlaws. What percent of White people do "bikers" represent? Then consider that only 1% of them are actually what we'd call an "outlaw". That really is an outlier statistically. The whole comparison was nonsense. To pretend this is the same as the Black street gang problem is preposterous.
"One of the most distinct characteristics of white privilege is the privilege to be unique. When white people commit violent acts, they are treated as aberrations, slips described with adjectives that show they are unusual and in no way representative of the broader racial group to which they belong.
"White Privilege"? Maybe the idiot who wrote that, didn't to look at the mug shots and assumes that all the bikers were Blond Eyed Blue Eyed Devils. These gangs were integrated.
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Last edited by WaldoKitty; 05-20-2015 at 12:25 AM..
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