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View Poll Results: White privilege, based on the quote in the OP:
I think it exists. 64 30.05%
Maybe it does exist, but only in the form mentioned in the quote. 4 1.88%
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no. 27 12.68%
I don't agree with the quote. 33 15.49%
No way it exists and the quote and this question are silly. 85 39.91%
Voters: 213. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-21-2018, 08:44 PM
 
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Every normal society in human history (not counting those that were distorted through a numerically inferior group dominating the society by force) has been organized according to the preferences of the majority of its members. And simply by being numerically dominant, members of the majority group can be seen as "privileged" over those who are not members of that group. Thus, in Nigeria, you have "black privilege"; in Japan you have "Asian privilege"; and so on. Why then is it seen as strange and unnatural and offensive and oppressive if the United States (which has always been majority-white, even if it may not always remain so) is set up to give preferences to its numerically dominant members?

And the solution is not to complain. It is to separate and live where the privilege belongs to your group.
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Old 05-22-2018, 03:13 AM
 
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Let's just ignore Minnesota's long history of discriminating against Native Americans, why don't we?
The Mystic Lake tribe of Sioux (Minnesota) Natives are the wealthiest per-capita people on the face of the earth.


What do Natives have to do with this discussion, anyway?
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Old 05-22-2018, 06:58 AM
 
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What we should be doing in this country is focusing on the failure of certain ethnic groups and communities who fail to thrive in America despite all the opportunities available to them.

White Privilege is just a made-up term to cover up their failures and refusal to accept responsibility for it
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Old 05-22-2018, 07:40 AM
 
Location: WY
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It's always useful to understand where certain terms originated.

Meet Peggy McIntosh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_McIntosh
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Old 05-22-2018, 08:01 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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Whites get a privilege for the simple reason that whites or more accurately a group of whites founded and ran this country for centuries. In China, the Han Chinese get privileges. If Africa was much to write home about, Black Africans would have privileges.
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Old 05-22-2018, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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Didn't read the whole thread, but most complaints about white privilege are just majority privilege.

The whole concept of privilege itself is pretty pointless, unless you're a totalitarian tyrant. So what if different people have unearned advantages? What are you gonna do, point guns at everyone in an attempt to play God?
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Old 05-22-2018, 10:13 AM
 
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Didn't read the whole thread, but most complaints about white privilege are just majority privilege.

The whole concept of privilege itself is pretty pointless, unless you're a totalitarian tyrant. So what if different people have unearned advantages? What are you gonna do, point guns at everyone in an attempt to play God?
That's what they're doing in South Africa today.


It will happen here...maybe not in this lifetime, but I expect it to happen.


La Raza's demands will come to the table eventually, along with African-Americans' demands.
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Old 05-22-2018, 10:25 AM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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That's what they're doing in South Africa today.


It will happen here...maybe not in this lifetime, but I expect it to happen.


La Raza's demands will come to the table eventually, along with African-Americans' demands.
I think it could definitely happen sooner rather than later. I don't want to be overly conspiratorial, but it seems obvious that the privilege narrative is meant to condition us for future legislation. That's how it always goes.

The only hope is that people learn to value individual rights. If they don't, they'll fall for the age-old sales pitch of sacrificing individuals to the collective. "We may have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet, but our cause outweighs any single person's rights."

If people value every person's humanity instead of viewing them as pawns in some social engineering scheme, they'll reject that evil message.
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Old 05-22-2018, 11:38 AM
 
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I think it could definitely happen sooner rather than later. I don't want to be overly conspiratorial, but it seems obvious that the privilege narrative is meant to condition us for future legislation. That's how it always goes.

The only hope is that people learn to value individual rights. If they don't, they'll fall for the age-old sales pitch of sacrificing individuals to the collective. "We may have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet, but our cause outweighs any single person's rights."

If people value every person's humanity instead of viewing them as pawns in some social engineering scheme, they'll reject that evil message.
They've poisoned and manipulated the collective minds of an entire generation or two at this point to hate themselves and their ancestors' past, and it will only get worse in the coming generations. Public school indoctrination is so poisonous and such a weapon.
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Old 05-22-2018, 11:56 AM
 
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We need to do Jew, Indian from the sub continent ,and Asian privilege before we get to white privilege?

Doesn't that sound appropriate in that context?


If you don't want to be poor, or you children to be poor, don't have 8 kids, be a single parent, or divorce. Once the socio economic drivers are accounted for, muh privilege disappears.
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