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HuffPo Author: We Should Replace the Phrase "White Privilege" with "White Advantage"
The Social Memo ^ | 7/21/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 07/21/2015 11:55:05 AM PDT by rightistight

Writing for the Huffington Post today, Daniel Cubias suggested that liberals get rid of the term "white privilege" with "white advantage," or another phrase that shows that whites receive societal benefits simply for being white.

Cubias cautions in his piece Let's Get Rid of the Term 'White Privilege' that "white privilege" does indeed exist. However, the phrase itself is not catchy enough.

Liberals were smart to change "global warming" to "climate change." He explains, "consider the worst branding decision of all time: "global warming". As we all know, climate deniers just scoff and say, "Then why was it so cold this winter?" Such idiotic assertions are easier to dismiss with a new and improved term (i.e., "climate change")."

The same should be done to "white privilege," Cubias writes. "We are seeing the same pushback," he writes, "the same dismissal of reality with the phrase "white privilege." Now, for those who are unclear about this concept, white privilege refers to societal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people."

Thus, "white privilege" needs to end in favor of something more catchy.

"And that's why we need to drop the whole thing -- not the concept, mind you, which is crucial to our understanding of racial inequalities and American culture itself. We need to rebrand," he details.

"So let's begin the discussion in earnest," Cubias continues. "Let's make it a real goal to replace the needlessly confrontational term "white privilege." I'll get it started. How about "white advantage"? It's still racially loaded, but the idea of "advantage" is much easier to accept than "privilege.""


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blackkk; danielcubias; demagogicparty; huffingtonpost; huffpo; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; race; redistribution; reparations; whiteadvantage; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 07/21/2015 11:55:05 AM PDT by rightistight
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To: rightistight

That is doubleplusgood duckspeak.


2 posted on 07/21/2015 11:56:50 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: rightistight

Down with all leftist racists!


3 posted on 07/21/2015 11:57:03 AM PDT by Williams
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To: rightistight

Why don’t they just try a little harder to succeed?


4 posted on 07/21/2015 11:57:33 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: rightistight

I have an idea...

5 posted on 07/21/2015 11:59:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Jim Robinson
Why don’t they just try a little harder to succeed?

But telling people anyone can make it if they work hard is RAAAAACISSSST!

6 posted on 07/21/2015 12:00:01 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: rightistight

Wouldn’t Steal Whitey’s Money be more accurate?

Pray America is waking


7 posted on 07/21/2015 12:00:13 PM PDT by bray (Cruz to the White House)
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To: rightistight

How about replace wite advantage, with whites work..jeeeez


8 posted on 07/21/2015 12:00:16 PM PDT by aces
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To: Jim Robinson

Maybe they don’t have the tools(IQ and attitude) to succeed.


9 posted on 07/21/2015 12:00:23 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: rightistight

I guess they want to stir the poop pile.

It never works out well.


10 posted on 07/21/2015 12:00:48 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: rightistight

It’s good to be white


11 posted on 07/21/2015 12:01:31 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: rightistight

Perhaps we should replace ‘privilege’ and ‘advantage’ with ‘achievement’.


12 posted on 07/21/2015 12:01:56 PM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: rightistight

I can’t get beyond the title. What “white advantage” has there been throughout decades of affirmative action?


13 posted on 07/21/2015 12:02:25 PM PDT by grania
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To: AppyPappy

It is.

White privilege - White advantage.

Call it what you will. White people rock!


14 posted on 07/21/2015 12:03:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: rightistight

racially loaded

Lock and load.

End of conversation.


15 posted on 07/21/2015 12:03:13 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: rightistight
I am white, or somewhat so, before I get out into the sun. I am 72 years old. I started working for money to buy things while I was still in grade school. I earned the money that paid for my college education. And, I have been working ever since, or at least until I retired 3 years ago. I have done hard physical labor and have put in horrendous hours for my pay.

While I am grateful to have had to opportunity to work and earn a living, I don't consider it to be 'white privilege or white advantage'. I consider it getting up in the morning, going to work or finding another job and doing it every day.

16 posted on 07/21/2015 12:03:19 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: rightistight

How about “IQ advantage,” since the average IQ of Eric Holder’s people is 85.


17 posted on 07/21/2015 12:05:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: rightistight

It’s actually

Judeo-Christian, Western Cultural advantage.

IE, when you abide by the values of our culture, based on Christian values, you prosper,

reject those values, you flounder and fail.


18 posted on 07/21/2015 12:06:01 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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We should meet claims of “White Privilege” and “White Advantage” with charges of Leftist Racism, which it is.

We should force the renaming of “political correctness” with the more accurate phrase “Leftist GroupThink.”

Were I a college student these days, I would be organizing student protests against ANY course or professor that taught or spoke of “white privilege,” demanding that such courses be shut down and the offending professors be fired.

I would be filing civil rights claims against the colleges that allow such courses to be taught.

“White Privilege” is a stereotypical inflammatory judgment that presumes to know what people are thinking or experiencing based purely on racist stereotypes.

I don’t understand why conservative students aren’t having a field day taking this on.

I would do everything in my power to make it very ... umm ... “politically incorrect” for anyone to make stereotypical statements about white people, and to spotlight the hypocrisy of those who engage in such disgusting, hostile rehtoric or behavior.


19 posted on 07/21/2015 12:06:51 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: rightistight

Does anyone think for one second that if any one “minority” was suddenly 75%+ of the population they would not exert some form of majority favoritism?


20 posted on 07/21/2015 12:09:46 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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