Posted on 01/27/2022 5:37:10 AM PST by Kaslin
It is time to vigorously go on the offensive against those who are selling the deeply deceitful ideology of “privilege” before they tear this country apart. Although the “privilege” peddlers point to many characteristics that they say create entrenched and undeserved advantage for some in society, one identified most frequently is so-called white privilege.
“White” is a word with constantly shifting definitions. For a long time in this country, “white” designated people whose ethnic origins could be traced to Europe. But the current American definition of “white” (at least among those driving the national conversation) commingles European ethnicities that were not once considered coterminous. Specifically, many northern Europeans were considered “white” at the turn of the 19th century, but the Irish were not. Mediterranean Europeans were not. Nor were Jews or Turks.
That’s no longer the case.
The changing racial and ethnic composition of Americans should be seen as good news. People of different European ethnicities are far more likely to intermarry in the United States than their ancestors would have been in their native countries. And this trend is not limited to Americans of European extraction. According to the 2020 census, more than 10% (33.8 million people) of the U.S. population is now “multiracial.” Almost 20% of all marriages are now interracial.
But much of the motivation for the ever-changing definition of “white” is tied to craven political objectives, with ominous implications.
For example, Jews -- among the most persecuted groups of people in history -- are now told that they enjoy “white privilege,” whether they identify as “white” or not; even if they are Orthodox (and thus a distinct minority); even if they lost family in or fled the Holocaust. This smacks of thinly veiled antisemitism.
In another notable example, when Trayvon Martin, an 18-year-old Black youth, was shot and killed in Florida 10 years ago next month, the country was introduced to the term “white Hispanic.” George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin, is multiracial. Zimmerman’s father is a native-born American. His mother was born in Peru. But Zimmerman was cast in the media as “white.”
In an interview with NPR about why the media was calling Zimmerman “white,” sociologist Jean Halley admitted, “Race is not a biological reality; it’s a social reality.” Halley went further, saying, “Whiteness is something that’s a negative. It means not being of color. There’s really almost no other definition for it ... Ultimately the only thing that's the real component of whiteness is having privilege.”
As California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder discovered last year, even Black Americans -- if they hold conservative political views -- can be called “the Black face of white supremacy.”
In other words, “white” has long since ceased to be a racial designation and instead became synonymous with any behavior that is reprehensible, and any political view that the left disfavors. “White” is now an epithet that can be hurled at anyone -- including children.
Many parents discovered during the COVID-19 lockdowns that “privilege” is being taught in K-12 education, warping our children’s perception of themselves and one another in ways that will breed learned helplessness and hatred. Black and Hispanic grade school children are taught that they will be held back by the color of their skin -- and that the white children in their classroom are members of the group responsible. White children are told that they are “born racist.”
Characteristics other than race/color, but over which children have a similar lack of control, are also being used to intimidate and cow them. A friend recently sent me an “identify your privilege” handout used in the school system where she grew up. These checklists or “bingo cards” contain items that students are to check off or put tokens on, when any item in the list or one of the boxes describes their circumstances. The more items a child ticks off, the more “privilege” he or she has.
The categories in the boxes typically include things such as: “Heterosexual”; “Parents are married”; “Get driven to school”; “Christian”; “No speech impediments”; “Involved in extracurricular activities”; “Never lost a loved one”; “Come from a military family”; “Male.”
The absurdity of most of these items should be evident. The overwhelming majority of the human race is heterosexual; it’s “privilege” to reproduce the way the species does? Is taking the bus proof that one is somehow disadvantaged in life? I don’t know a soul who has never lost a loved one; do “privileged” people not die? Ask any kid from a military family how “privileged” he or she felt to have to move and change schools every few years. And as for being “male,” consider recent research that shows that boys are disfavored in elementary and secondary school, their behaviors increasingly pathologized, “diagnosed” and drugged. Young men have been entering and graduating from college in shrinking numbers relative to women for years.
“Privilege” is often described by activists as “the invisible knapsack of unearned assets.” In other words, success is not a function of hard work, staying in school, giving up leisure time to devote to extracurricular activities that teach teamwork, dedication and leadership, taking entry-level jobs and working one’s way up the ladder, saving instead of spending, or making countless other decisions that produce eventual success.
Nope. If you’ve succeeded, you were handed everything -- in a “knapsack” that is conveniently “invisible,” so your detractors never have to prove its existence, nor can you deny it.
There was a time when our culture encouraged behaviors that developed independent individuals and stable families, provided stability for children, increased the likelihood of success and reduced the chances of intractable poverty with its attendant problems, therefore strengthening society.
That attitude has been turned on its ear. The characterization of these behaviors as “privilege” unsubtly (if not expressly) demands that those who have experienced or engaged in them apologize for them. This can only contribute to the further Balkanization and disintegration of American society.
We have the power to stop it. And we must.
I taunt the hell out of the left on social media with this stuff, that’s the only reason I have accounts. I’ll write things like:
“Bunny and I were celebrating my promotion to CEO of Bankers fund group where I will be making $34 million a year! I had ZERO experience and just an 8th grade education, but they hired me ANYWAY because I’m white! I love my privilege!”
“Todaaaay, Bunny and I were shopping for cars and the dealer gave me a brand new Lamborghini solely because I’m white! I LOVE my privilege!”
“Yesterday my brother robbed a bank but he wasn’t fast enough and the cops caught him. When they took off his mask they discovered he was white and let him go! White privilege is AAAHWWWWESOME!”
Where success is concerned, there is no such thing as equity. I will not hold my children back to satisfy those morons.
“vigorously go on the offensive”
Teach us how to live, Ms Hollis. Because, you know, we’re just sitting here with our thumbs up our bu++s waiting for instructions.
When I was growing up, we didn't.
Most non white folks today in the USA have running water in the house.
When I was growing up, we didn't.
Most non white folks today in the USA have a telephone.
When I was growing up, we didn't.
Most non white folks today in the USA have an indoor toilet.
When I was growing up, we had an outhouse way out back.
Most non white folks today in the USA have a warm place to sleep.
When I was growing up, we didn't, it got down to 42 below zero where I slept.
Most non white folks today in the USA have warm, heated schools in the winter.
When I was growing up, we didn't. We could often take off our coats and mittens by noon.
Most non white folks today in the USA have flush toilets in their schools.
When I was growing up, we didn't.
Most of us where I grew up were so far below the "poverty line", we couldn't see it.
Through hard work and education we all worked our way out of that situation.
These "white privilege clowns can jam it where the sun doesn't shine.
“We have the power to stop it. And we must.”
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How?
The Left has followed the rules for radicals for many years. This is what we are up against. Yet normal thinking Americans, and conservatives have not figured out how to counter. We are in a war, its not a physical one.....and we do not know how to effectively fight it.
We are often told to “stand up” for our rights....whatever that means. And now this article tells us about all of the problems and ends with the one sentence that we have the power to stop it. What....in the voting booth? That hasn’t worked so well. And now that power is being deliberately diminished.
Trump was good at it. He called the news...fake news. It infuriated them. But, I’ve noticed we are going back to calling them the “mainstream media” while they always call us the extreme right. We give the ground we took via Trump, back.
It is way past time that we figure out how to effectively fight back. I’m not talking about a physical fight.
What we do is talk and listen in echo chambers. We wait for the next election....the next lying politician we trust will fix it. The Left does not do that. This is how they have gotten so far and are now doing everything to censor our echo chambers.
We need some working ideas to effectively counter.
LOL! That guy is a genius, that was awesome when SNL use to be funny. I like how he walked “keep the butt tight” lol lol. You ever see this one where he plays James Brown going in a hot tub? I was crying when I saw this, you can see he’s on the verge of cracking up as well...’Hot tub! OWW!’ lol lol......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeSwrFKFNFw
I believe much of the assault on “privilege” is to simply leave the blatantly-illegal affirmative action freebies intact while keeping normals on the defensive. Beyond that, there is the specter of many white Americans dying off before financial retribution/outright pillaging could impact them - and this is an attempt to prevent either the inheritance of wealth by white heirs or increasingly, to stop that wealth from going to dog shelters and such favored by many ageing childless people.
When commercial blocs feature ads for competing charities in which a donor can spend $20 per month feeding animals or African children, someone finally noticed that we’ve reached a bizarre post-Christian place where some people would rather feed the animals...
Black America 2021: Preference and wealth.
The woke left use the white privilege scam to cover up their true privileges same with the fake race card it’s always hey look over there deal.
The left are the masters of fake lies BS and whining it they don’t have anything to bitch about their day is ruined.
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