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For starters, it's not something a person WORRIES over at all.
Do you consider yourself a white privileged person who benefit from the oppression of others? Do you consider white people to be like sons and daughters of drug kingpins, spending stolen money while acting innocent? This is the conversation we need to have.
Maybe it does for you, but have we removed the reason so many people treat anyone who isn't white differently?
As in, without AA, would qualified black and Hispanic candidates get overlooked to hire a white man?
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Have you ever been accused of getting a job or gaining admission to a university solely because you were being used to fill a racial quota?
you clearly want to have it both ways. either support dumping AA, or stop complaining when people notice that it's being used as an alternative to merit.
Do you get followed around stores based on your skin color, while people think you might be a shoplifter?
Do you worry when a police officer stops your car that you might get shot, even though you don't think you did anything wrong?
If you have never had these things happen, you HAVE experienced white privilege.
Might as well call it "female privilege". Females are far less likely to get shot by a police officer than white males. The same is true of elderly people. So there is elderly privilege. Female privilege. Elderly Asian females score the maximum point on this definition of your "white privilege". They basically never get shot.
This whole thing is just silly. When every Joe Schmoe is accused of being privileged, benefiting from the oppression of others, people have gone off the deep end.
For all of this white privilege, there have been threads in this very forum where black people have been asked if they encounter racism and they have stated they have not.
You know who made this up? Some white liberal who probably doesn't even live in an area where black people live, and thinking it had merit, it was taken up by some black folks.
That some of you suffer from white guilt is a shame, but don't put that on the rest of us who refuse to admit there is something like white privilege.
Might as well call it "female privilege". Females are far less likely to get shot by a police officer than white males. The same is true of elderly people. So there is elderly privilege. Female privilege. Elderly Asian females score the maximum point on this definition of your "white privilege". They basically never get shot.
This whole thing is just silly. When every Joe Schmoe is accused of being privileged, benefiting from the oppression of others, people have gone off the deep end.
I'm calling it wife privilege. If a woman isn't abused by her husband, if she doesn't need to worry about being attacked verbally and/or physically every time her man walks in the door - she's a benefactor of wife privilege.
Let's just call it what it actually is... Advantages. We all have them. Those that try to beat someone over the head about their advantages typically ignore and neglect their own. And at the end of the day your job is to make the most of what you got, and whining about someone else's advantages not how you sucessfully compete. You're training people to be whiny losers that have little initiative because they believe their success is always dependent on someone else. So you're essentially betraying yourself.
Privilege is taking advantage of being born in America by being a highly succesful productive member of society.
One has already won the lottery just by being born in America.
White privilege. Are you saying some ugly, poor, fat, and short white guy has more privilege than a tall, handsome, in shape middle class black guy? No. Not a chance.
But, that same ugly, poor, fat, short white guy has more privilege than an ugly, poor, fat, and short black guy.
Which you know or you'd have compared apples to apples.
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Quotas are nothing but reverse discrimination. It was used to make snowflakes/do-gooders feel good.
Overall it helped no one in the long scheme of things. If a person, no matter what his/her race is, can't make it on their qualified talent or skills then they shouldn't do it over the backs of others who are more qualified or skilled.... no matter their race.
I don't know that it didn't help at all... individuals, I mean.
I think the people who put them in place were trying to help people who were constantly denied opportunities by racists and bigots.
Unfortunately, those same racists and bigots never learned anything or we would not need affirmative action anymore.
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Do you consider yourself a white privileged person who benefit from the oppression of others? Do you consider white people to be like sons and daughters of drug kingpins, spending stolen money while acting innocent? This is the conversation we need to have.
That's not even what the subtle concept of "white privilege" actually means, so I'm not sure why you're introducing it here.
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you clearly want to have it both ways. either support dumping AA, or stop complaining when people notice that it's being used as an alternative to merit.
I want people not to be jerks, but I realize every time I log on here that it's unlikely to happen.
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