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Posted on 11/21/2013 12:00:50 PM PST by Leigh Patrick Sullivan
Much has been said lately about something called ‘white privilege’. I had never actually seen this creature, so I decided to do a little bit of investigating.
‘What does it look like? How will I know if I cross its path?’ I have asked several people. The problem then is the responses: no two are alike.
It seems this white privilege thing is quite controversial, and while no two people who believe in this thing can agree on specifics, they all agree it exists.
Apparently it’s not a physical creature at all but a ‘societal truth’. It’s kind of like a virus that one is born with. Well, only white people are born with it.
Seems like a racist virus if you ask me, but I digress.
The infected are rumored to possess amazing powers which allow them to achieve certain levels in society and enjoy certain treats the non-afflicted miss out on such as better paying jobs, guaranteed clean soup bowls at the restaurant, first-shot at prime AC/DC tickets, etc.
Naturally I must suffer this sickness of privilege. I look back on my own life searching for instances of this gift, and that’s where the confusion starts. I must have it – I am white, after all.
It was missing in action when I was refused acceptance my first time applying for post-secondary education not because of my high school transcripts (not bad at all), but because the college had racial ‘quotas’.
“Really? How many whites do you allow?” Must’ve been the privilege talking.
I work full time, pay the same high taxes as non-whites, have been pulled over by the cops for a ‘routine check’, etc.
From what I’ve been told, none of that should have ever happened to me because of the Shield of White Privilege™.
One very helpful believer explained that, because I enjoy WP, I must also feel ‘white guilt’.
Whoa – one phantom demon at a time, please.
I keep searching but come up empty.
Was it the benefits I received from white-focused special interest groups while growing up?
Perhaps it was all the times I was shuffled from coach to first class because of the color of my skin. Or those federal government cheques I keep receiving just because I happened to be born Caucasian. Or the time I got that bank loan ‘…just because’ (*wink).
Wait…none of that ever happened. What the hell?
Since this white privilege thing must exist, and I haven’t ever benefitted from this, who do I call? Is there a government agency that deals with such matters?
I was ripped off! I’m white. Why am I not allowed to bask in this apparent gift from God?
It’s because I’m Irish, isn’t it?
If there is such a thing as "White Privilege", then why did the mulatto infesting the white hut choose affirmative action?
So if I move to Central or South America or Asia or Africa, will I be entitled to quotas as a minority?
What white privilege is, in reality, is the consequences of previous generations working hard, being faithful Christians, and devoting themselves to the well being of the next generation.
Anybody who does this will, over the generations, reap the reward.
Albino privilege?
White privilege is another name for Social, Cultural and spiritual evolution. We have had a steady progression of it for 3 thousand years. Others have had for only 300 years when they were put in or maybe even forced into another culture that is more advanced. Some of them have made three thousand years of progress and caught completely up. Others have made no progress and others are somewhere in between.
It's invisible, but all-pervasive. White people can't see it because they're inherently racist. It can't be measured in terms of demographics because the demographics are invented by white people. Anecdotal evidence from white people is disqualified because, well, they're white.
I'm not making any of this up. See Critical Race Theory for a real eye-opener.
The way this is set up is quite clever. There is literally no avenue left open for criticism that is not itself a function of the model. It's perfectly circular. This would be laughed out of any class in formal philosophy as being completely untestable but, then, those places are ridden with racism, aren't they?
It is, essentially, a twisted form of Original Sin with no chance of redemption, ever. It is astonishing how seriously its proponents take it, and worse, how seriously they insist that everyone else take it. They're building curricula around it. They're indoctrinating students with it. They're poisoning society with it.
This is funny,Whites in general are slaves to honesty ,altruism ,and logic...the things that society is built on....lol
So they have the privilege of playing the victim in most interpersonal interracial interaction.....
I think its the generalized commitment to altruism that constitutes whites greatest weakness.....and strength.
oh well
I think it does exist, but it’s not because people are “white” it’s because they are upper class.
Well dressed and mannered people have all sorts of amazingly nice things happen to them, while rude loud-mouthed thugs of ANY race often get treated like the trash they are.
Higher IQ, on average.
Parents who cared.
Parents who worked.
Parents who worked hard and sacrificed for the kids.
Parents who didn’t cry victim and gimme dat all the time.
Parents who didn’t get drunk or stoned or steal or murder.
Parents who spoke English decently.
Working hard.
Not crying victim and gimme dat.
Not getting drunk or stoned or stealing or murdering.
Speaking English decently.
That’s the source of White Privilege.
People who believe in WP are leftists, hoping for a permanent underclass of the ‘oppressed’ that will rise up against their ‘oppressors’ (Whitey) and usher in a new era of Communist Bliss.
In order to not look too insane, they are forced to ignore:
higher IQ
much lower rates of crime
harder working ethic.
better command of English
nurturing parents
self-esteem.
I object to "blue" States not being called for the Red Diaper Doper Babies that they are now.
I object to the notions of race being reduced to purely skin color.
I object to culture being tied to skin color.
We need to reject many of the premises of the "dialog" of late.
Even to the GOPe attacking and denigrating their (former) base.
Blacks accusing whites of “privilege” is no different than whites saying all blacks “got rhythm.” It’s a stereotype with only minimal basis in reality, but it serves as an easy way to classify people based on the color of their skin.
In other words, it’s simply racism.
DING!DING! Post of the day!
You are spot on, sir!
What has always stunned me is the fact that, by saying whites are BORN privileged, minorities are-in fact- self identifying as inferior by genetics! They are admitting to an inferior status that we could not call them or be called racists. It’s self hatred and a cultural pressure to be comfortable with being less. To aspire is labeled ‘wanting to be white’. They can say whites are better than them-but whites cannot? Instead of raising one race to evil heights, why not raise their own? Oh-because it maintains eternal victim status!
What kind of sick psychology is this? Whites being demonized for trying to be better by people who revile the very idea.
\So what can we do but agree? White is better. Black is bad. They say so themselves.
The weakness of Critical Race Theory and its associated academic edifices is that they rely on a desire for fairness by the whites of Western Civilization.
What happens if white folk decide “screw it, you people are no longer worthy of our concern”?
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