[DouglasKC]

The only “privilege” white or otherwise is a work ethic. One just has to be willing to work in America to live better then most of the world. One has to be willing to work harder to live like a king comparatively. And one has to be willing to sacrifice capital AND to work hard to succeed financially beyond the wildest dreams of most of the world.

[moovova]

[BobL]

White privilege instruction is simply BRAINWASHING, which means implanting thoughts in peoples’ heads that are otherwise illogical.

As to the white privilege, tell that to the superstar academic Asians in California being DENIED admission in their top schools (i.e., some of the country’s top schools).

In the 1930, the colleges felt that there were too many JOOOOS attending, so they capped the number with a “Jewish Quota”...now they’re doing the same to Asians.

[Chode]

if there are no minorities where you live and work, WHAT white privilege are they talking about???

great swathes of the country simply don't have any, or damn few, but the stooopid libruls that do live there will be sucked right up into this nonsense

[Altura Ct.]

the idea that being born white comes with certain inherent advantages -- is "controversial," does that mean the topic shouldn't be broached in a college course?

The idea that blacks generally have lower IQ's than whites is 'controversial' does that mean the topic shouldn't be broached in a college course?

The idea that blacks, especially young black males are highly criminal is 'controversial' does that mean the topic shouldn't be broached in a college course?

We could go on for some time...

[Mr Rogers]

White privilege has blocked Asian students from attending good schools and getting good jobs for YEARS! One can hardly blame citizens of Chinese and Japanese origin for raging through the streets, stealing textbooks and computers - what else can they do when faced with WHITE PRIVILEGE?

Whities keeping their heel on the neck of the Yellow Man. That is what this thread is about, isn’t it?

[hecht]

this is the excuse dejour.

anyone remember “Black Rage”?

[LibertarianLiz]

I remember, quite a few years ago, an article in the Sunday Seattle Times on the new criteria for the Washington State Universities when it came to who could receive Affirmative Action consideration. According to the list (which was incredibly long), having lived with two parents, who were your biological parents, and who were married to one another, was considered "privilege" and would count against you when applying for entry to one of the Universities.

I was astounded, as I had two daughters who I was counting on going to college; but, would they be given negative points because their father and I were married, and had stayed married? It is this type of insanity that has made me go all John Galt and pretty much check out of the culture. When doing the right thing by your kids (being married, staying married, providing a good home for them) is thought to be "privilege" and thus punished because there are some people who aren't so fortunate to have married parents; well, the culture is doomed. My biggest problem with it was that I considered what they thought of as "privilege" as something that anyone can do. IOWs, a choice you make in your life. No one (with the exception of those horrid gay activists) is being prevented from doing what I and my husband did, and thus benefitting from a stable lifestyle.

[amnestynone]

White privilege exists. It is also called social and cultural evolution. We had 2thousand plus years of stead evolution from aboriginal existence. They had two hundred due to being brought in our advanced European culture. Many of them have advanced and even caught up to the rest of us but many have not. Our privilege was earned through social and cultural evolution and there is no reason why we should not feel that it is just and earned. At best what is happening is that libs are trying to empower blacks through victimhood and that does not work. They are empowered by going through the process mentioned. A more likely reason for what they are doing is they are being clientized and patronized by the left into doing the formers bidding. They are the libs little lap poodles.

[Maceman]

A small, increasingly-fringe faction might argue that it doesn't exist at all.

I think the author is a little confused about who are the fringe faction.

[tanknetter]

A small, increasingly-fringe faction might argue that it doesn't exist at all.

This is a blatant attempt to marginalize and demonize those who don't agree with the concept of "white privilege" and render them silent.

I'm guessing that a heck of a lot of people here in the US don't agree with it (probably haven't even heard of it, actually), but by portraying them as a small and fringe faction the Left bludgeons anyone who may stand up in opposition into silence.

I don't think this is going to work as well as they think it will. The Left has tried to do this with Climate Change, and the result is a public that will acknowledge to pollsters that they believe in it, but will otherwise keep their mouths shut and go on living (and voting) as if it doesn't exist.

Same thing will happen here, only it may be even more pronounced. Being told that they're "climate change deniers" may keep people quiet, even spur them to participate in "green" things like recycling, or turning down their thermostat (while still buying gas-guzzling SUVs), but there's absolutely NO evidence that it's driving voting patterns.

Start laying down a major guilt trip by slapping people around and calling them "racist" is a completely different matter. There's going to be a nasty backlash to this, because there are a lot of people out there who only support Progressive candidates and policies because they're portrayed as "center-left", but don't buy into the whole Progressive race/gender/class bit. Start slapping them in the face with it, and people will at best become apathetic and at worse actively rebel against that level of personal attack.

[Kickass Conservative]

I wonder if The Congressional White Caucus, The NAAWP (The National Association of White People) and the United Whitey College Fund are aware of these this injustice?

[MaxMax]

Compare the black cultures across the planet to all others for production
and social growth. Reality is a nose punch on a cold morning .