Leonard Pitts Jr.: Understanding white privilege

San Jose Mercury ^ | 12/03/2014 | Leonard Pitts Jr.

[MUDDOG]

I was born, therefore I am irreparably flawed.

Exactly!

The Weekly Standard had a great article recently exploring this dimension:

The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas (Weekly Standard 12/1/14)

An excerpt:

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[Former schoolteacher Kim Radersma:]“I have to every day wake up and acknowledge that I am so deeply embedded with racist thoughts and notions and actions in my body,” she testified to a teachers’ conference on white privilege this spring. “I have to choose every day to do antiracist work and think in an antiracist way.”
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These people are deeply mentally ill. The problem in, they're setting the agenda in schools and colleges, and in the Dem party.

[GeronL]

leftist privilege

[AppyPappy]

Bottom line: It’s good to be a white man. So thankful.

[Graybeard58]

Any so called “white privilege” can be easily explained by the Bell Curve.

[JoeFromSidney]

Any so called “white privilege” can be easily explained by the Bell Curve.

Remember, there are as many whites on the left side of the Bell Curve as there are on the right side. Any "privilege" for whites in general is earned by those to the right of the peak.

The problem for blacks is that their peak in the Bell Curve is one standard deviation below the peak for whites. For those comparatively few blacks who fall above the whites' peak, their opprobrium is earned by all those blacks to the left of them.

I know it's not fair, but that's life.

[Graybeard58]

I know it's not fair, but that's life.

"All men are created equal" is just not quite right.

To learn to be happy with the brains I was born with is my goal and to achieve the optimum with what God gave me.

[Graybeard58]

U.S.A.F. 1963 - 1967.

[rollo tomasi]

Yeah, those Useful Idiots can sometimes ruin the “party”.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[kevkrom]

"White privilege" is THE issue among liberals these days. Us normal people don't realize just how big it is in liberal bastions like schools and college campuses.

Close, but not quite. That was true, but the shift is on from "white" to "male" - watch for gender issues to be the next trump card.

The one constant is the "privilege" claim. It's used as an "I win" card that automatically discredits any opposition. You don't even have to be a member of the "privilege" group to be shot down, because your dissent is still a product of that "privilege".