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Prescription - extract rent from whites, redistribute to non-whites.
I don't think anyones making that argument just pointing that whites do have privileges that other minority groups do not. I do know that for a lot of right wingers though that there opposition to social programs like welfare has more to do with bigotry than it has to do with ideological principles.
Being treated decently is a privilege?? Then I guess you believe nobody should get such special treatment and white people should be trailed through stores if black people are.
Being treated differently (usually better) because you are white is white privilege. Someone upthread mentioned receiving the benefit of the doubt. Yes, that can also be an example of white privilege.
For example, a made-up situation would be... Two people walk from a store with shopping bags. The white person is allowed to leave with no questions; however, the black customer is asked to have their bags checked before departing.
Another example might be... A person of color being asked for additional identification when writing a check (assuming it’s, say, 1992), while the white customer is asked for no identification.
Yet, another example might be... A black person having trouble hailing a cab on a city street, but the same cab that passes him stops to pick up the fare from the white lady a few blocks away.
The conclusion and prescription haven't changed since the 60s. All that is changing is now that you no longer have overt racism on the part of the individual in favor of whites, and have actually flipped to institutional racism on the part of the government in favor of non-whites (except Asians), and all that government favor has resulted in either no change or worsening of various socioeconomic relativities...well, a new excuse needs to be formulated in order to keep extracting rent via the institutional government racism system.
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Now we have UNCONSCIOUS RACISM. So, we don't even have to be racist, or bigoted, just by our existence as a White person we carry unconscious racism, just like Original Sin. No doing, nor action of our own, it is something we inherited by being White.
As you say, the fix is always some kind of monetary transfer, or transfer of consideration like Affirmative Action. So instead of leveling the playing field, the Left wants to level the OUTCOME. To do that does not require making opportunities equal, but making them unequal in favor of the perceived aggrieved party. In this case Blacks.
I reject the term and I reject the concept. It's meant to assign collective guilt and I only take responsibility for my own individual actions or the actions of those under my direct guardianship.
Amen. I know white people who will follow the white tradesman through their home because they've been ripped off so many times, but will not do this if it's someone who is black because they don't want that person to think it's because they're black.
I've watched women I worked with who would step over colleagues if they were dying, race out of a building with their umbrella to save some black stranger who was caught in a downpour.
I've seen excuses made for black employees by upper management when white employees have been taken to task for the same things.
Is that black privilege? Or the result of white guilt?
Is treating black folks differently white privilege? Or the result of stereotyping and profiling?
I don't think anyones making that argument just pointing that whites do have privileges that other minority groups do not. I do know that for a lot of right wingers though that there opposition to social programs like welfare has more to do with bigotry than it has to do with ideological principles.
Being treated differently (usually better) because you are white is white privilege. Someone upthread mentioned receiving the benefit of the doubt. Yes, that can also be an example of white privilege.
For example, a made-up example would be... Two people walk from a store with shopping bags. The white person is allowed to leave with no questions; however, the black customer is asked to have their bags checked before departing.
Another example might be... A person of color being asked for additional identification when writing a check (assuming it’s, say, 1992), while the white customer is asked for no identification.
Yet, another example might be... A black person having trouble hailing a cab on a city street, but the same cab that passes him stops to pick up the fare from the white lady a few blocks away.
You don't need to cite examples, I'm aware of them and do not deny that they happen.
Privilege is a special advantage afforded to one group and denied others. Being treated decently isn't a special advantage - it's just the way all people should be treated. Period.
To state that this is white privilege only means you think nobody should be treated like white people, and everyone should have their bags checked at the door.
Yea if you read between the lines most right wingers not all mind you just the very vocal ones imply that blacks are dumb and lazy and criminals and therefore undeserving of any help.
Being treated differently (usually better) because you are white is white privilege. Someone upthread mentioned receiving the benefit of the doubt. Yes, that can also be an example of white privilege.
For example, a made-up situation would be... Two people walk from a store with shopping bags. The white person is allowed to leave with no questions; however, the black customer is asked to have their bags checked before departing.
Another example might be... A person of color being asked for additional identification when writing a check (assuming it’s, say, 1992), while the white customer is asked for no identification.
Yet, another example might be... A black person having trouble hailing a cab on a city street, but the same cab that passes him stops to pick up the fare from the white lady a few blocks away.
Again, you are talking about stereotypes. There is no need to make up a term directed at whites for negative stereotypes about blacks. Its like you insist on taking the inverse of reality out of refusal to acknowledge negative stereotypes about blacks. Why do these stereotypes exist? Do you think they are completely made up?
You don't need to cite examples, I'm aware of them and do not deny that they happen.
Privilege is a special advantage afforded to one group and denied others. Being treated decently isn't a special advantage - it's just the way all people should be treated. Period.
To state that this is white privilege only means you think nobody should be treated like white people, and everyone should have their bags checked at the door.
Yeah, no... that’s not what I think, and that’s not what I said. Whatever rules—strict, lenient, what have you—are mandatory at the store (in this made-up situation), they should be applied equally, regardless of the color of the shoppers.
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