Posted on 05/05/2014 3:10:03 PM PDT by Scoutmaster
Mr. Fortgang didn't write this essay anonymously. Thanks to Chickensoup, I've since learned that the site I found erred in attributing this to "anonymous."
Mr. Fortgang's initial essay - written under his name - appeared in The Princeton Tory, "[a] journal of conservative and moderate thought."
The overwhelming majority of comments at that site essentially tell him to shut his white-privileged mouth, and that his family story doesn't matter because he's white-privileged because he's white.
One comment points out that Mr. Fortang's family story of a few generations of inconvenience (okay, I made up the 'inconvenience' part) doesn't compare with the 300 years of oppression that blacks have suffered in America. I think to myself "300 years. Hmmm. Gee, I can't think of any oppression that Jewish individuals have ever suffered throughout history (tongue firmly planted in cheek)."
It's well worth reading ten or fifteen comments, if just to get an idea about how Mr. Fortang will be treated at Princeton after publication of this essay.
A great read.
Among my favorite parts:
The point of Mr. Fortgang’s essay — the part that drives the Left to rage — is that such advantages as this particular young man from suburban Westchester County enjoys are much more the product of the sort of family he comes from, and the opportunities that they enjoyed in the United States, than they are of ethnic and sexual features. Mr. Fortgang’s grandfather is a standing rebuke to the entire concept of white-male privilege: Imagine the sort of moral illiteracy it takes to behold a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who has arrived with no money or connections on foreign shores to live among people who did not, let us remember, universally welcome the Jewish influx, and before the Siberian frost has even been brushed off his shoulders, to point at him and cry: “Lucky you!”
Give me a second and I'll channel the 'privilege' finger pointers.
You have male privilege.
You have white privilege.
You may have U.S. citizenship privilege.
You have two-parents privilege.
You have working parents privilege.
You may have height privilege.
You may have 'not-disabled' privilege.
You have "you-didn't-build-that-but-claim-to-'own'-private-business" privilege.
You have native-English-speaking privilege.
You probably had books-in-the-childhood-home privilege.
You clearly have Internet privilege.
You probably even have privilege privilege.
Now, then, aren't you ashamed?
Yeah, Except for the height privilege (I’m only 5’7”, too short for basketball) I’m overwhelmed with guilt for all my privileges.
Oh. Now I have to worry about I-have-a-bed privilege.
Oh. Now I have to worry about I-have-a-bed privilege.
Proper response: "Go get bent."
If you truly believe me to be of a “privileged” group,
you should be hesitant to criticize me out of fear of reprisal.
Now, I know it’s not minorities that live in such fear, but some other group that does...
No problem with that, until you realize Jews are only 2% of the population.
I doubt I have any disagreement with this student or his no doubt well-earned presence at Princeton.
I have a lot of problems with his ethnic/religious compatriots who have led the fight to have “white people” limited to no more than their percentage of the population (actually much less) at elite colleges, while allowing, indeed encouraging, Jews to exceed their percentage by 10x or 15x.
Well that was a petty observation to make on this thread.
Why?
The vast majority of Jews are liberals, and liberals constantly decry the under-representation of (certain) ethnic groups at (especially elite) colleges.
Why is it petty to point out that they don’t hold their own groups to the same standard they wish to impose on the rest of us? Which is to say, every group equally represented.
According to the Harvard website, their admitted students are presently 11% black, 20% Asian, 12% Hispanic and 3% Native American.
This adds up to 46% “minorities.” Leaving 54% presumably to be “white,” in which of course Jewish students are included.
I don’t believe Harvard releases actual statistics, but it is generally accepted that 1/4 to 1/3 of the students at Harvard identify as Jewish. Add this to the “minorities” admitted, and we’re down to somewhere between 21% and 29% of student slots available for white gentiles.
I would have no problem with any of this if all students were admitted purely on test scores or some other merit-based approach. But of course they are not, so in practice the primary result looks a lot like exclusion of white gentiles, whether that is what is intended or not.
Personally, I find these types of calculations distasteful. But since they are widely used by liberals, many of whose leaders are Jewish, to condemn America and white people for discrimination, why is it petty to point out what by their own standards (at least those they apply to others) is shocking racial and/or ethnic discrimination?
Bttt
What about the International Conspiracy to take over the world and fake the Holocaust to justify it? Doesn’t that make you privileged? Huh? Huh? Huh?
And that’s nothing compared to what the sons of former slaves suffered. Why, if it hadn’t been for slavery, they’d have been back in Africa, starving or getting raped and murdered by holy warriors, as Allah meant them to be./s
Thanks Scoutmaster.
Great post. It might be a duplicate but it doesn’t matter... it’s worth many reads...
From this Jewish conservative perspective, I am wholeheartedly opposed to any affirmative action and to any racial/ethnic/religious quotas in college admissions and favor a strict merit system. In schools which regrettably still employ college admissions affirmative action and/or racial/ethnic/religious quota practices, Jewish applicants are considered to be part of the "white people" group by the bean counters. If there is discrimination against Jewish applicants, it's precisely because all white applicants are discriminated against to make way for desired percentages (quotas) of African American and Hispanic students. Asian heritage students often have a fixed percentage set for them as well, but they are often discriminated against because they would outnumber their quota if a strict merit standard were used.
I don't care for Jewish leftists any more than other leftists, but I'm not exactly sure of who you refer to when you talk about "his ethnic/religious compatriots who have led the fight to have 'white people' limited to no more than their percentage of the population (actually much less) at elite colleges, while allowing, indeed encouraging, Jews to exceed their percentage by 10x or 15x." I'm unaware of even leftist Jews who advocate those policies. If anything, the Jewish left would have Jewish applicants sacrifice places in college admissions to get more (less qualified) black and Hispanic applicants admitted - a position which I staunchly oppose.
All the leftists see are groups.
And to them, all us Jews are "Jewish American Princesses" who have been spoiled rotten from working so hard and need to be knocked down a peg.
It's their Modus Operandi
If the collectivists had their way they’d do much more than that!
Beautiful.
My privilege is the same as his.
Too depressing for words. Assuming that a lot of these are Princeton students, the best and the brightest, we are in for a lot of merde.
They don’t agree with him nor do they see the point of just leaving people alone and not focusing on race or ethnicity.
They still want to call some people better than others,and their hierarchy has, inexplicably, at the top those with darker skins period. They are so blind I don’t see how they even find air to breathe.
For example, the lesbian who commented and railed that people say “it was that black/Asian man over there” and that they’d never say that about whites, what does she think people say in a black neighborhood? Of course to hell they do say “it was that white /Asian guy over there.” In an Asian neighborhood they would do exactly the same thing, not say “Asian guy, but they’d say black or white.” DUH. And they are all that smug and just plain stupid.
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