What is the best response when you are accused of having white privilege?

Quora ^ | 11/3/18

[conservative98]

Steve Heckman Steve Heckman, R&D Manager (1998-present) Updated Jul 30, 2018 · Author has 504 answers and 82k answer views I see no reason to even acknowledge it with an answer.

[wardaddy]

That works for me

[AndyTheBear]

Tell them that there are two systems. I subscribe to the color blind system that treats everyone the same. The other system is the Leftist system that divides people by race into victim groups and oppressor groups as if there was nothing more important about a person than their race. In the first system, I am the same as everyone, since we are all treated equally. In the second system, as a white person, I am at the bottom of the barrel and asked to apologize for the supposed sins of my race by people that ironically belong to the one political party that actually did all the real sins, e.g. slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, the Trail of Tears and Japanese internment. Of course not wanting to feel guilty the party has projected that on to the conservative view and their “evidence” that we are the sinful ones has to do with supposed secret dog whistle language and the desire for people to show their id when they vote...since there are actually no racist policies on our side to point at.

[wardaddy]

Lol

You’re lucky it was Whole Foods pu$$ies

If you been at a Dagostinos in a pioneer area you woulda been attacked and bum rushed

Btw...New Yorkers don’t que well anyhow

Eight year Manhattan resident

[wardaddy]

Don’t let anyone hit you first if you can help it

[higgmeister]

I think my family gave up "White Privilege" after the War Between the States. My Grandparents and the whole family, even young children, were sharecroppers picking cotton. They worked the same fields with a black family at the other end of the fields. My Dad's older sisters picked cotton in the fields with the rest of the family. At Sixteen, my Dad joined the CCC work camps helping cut Giant Redwoods in California. He got his GED while he was in the Navy in WWII.

For several years, I slept in the same bed with one brother, then two brothers when the youngest outgrew the baby bed. All three of us slept in the same bedroom with my older sister. For about a year and a half we used an outdoor johnny house or a white enamel with blue trim chamber pot/slop bucket at night. Each of us kids had to take turns emptying the bucket each morning so Mom could use it to fill with table scraps so we could slop the hogs. We washed ourselves on Saturday night in a number two or number three washtub with water heated on a wood stove. And yes, we used the same water for all of us, but my Dad always got to go first. Mom would hang quilts across one corner of the kitchen for a small amount of privacy. After that year and a half my other Grandfather helped Dad plumb in bathrooms after my Dad framed them in.

But, we were not poor and never needed a handout or lacked anything. Dad taught us that an honorable man would not accept charity. I wouldn't have changed a thing for the experience of living without that so called "White Privilege."

[namvolunteer]

Yeah, Lurker!

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[teeman8r]

I tell them “everyone has a fairy godmother”

And “for the world’s people, more often than not, it was white privilege “

[gunsequalfreedom]

That makes my evening. Thanks.

[wardaddy]

The entire black world is dysfunctional and prone to violence more so than most whites or most Asians

And I’ve seen and experienced most of it

Tropical Africa was isolated for a very very long time much like aboriginals who are even more dysfunctional as a rule

Is all this cultural or geographic or genetic?

To me it’s a combination and over time isolation and cultural caused a genetic lag in mental acuity

And yes plenty of blacks surpass the white or Asian mean

Yet tropical African IQ both there and their descendants here despite a rise to middle class for many is quite laggard compared to oriental Asians and Whites

It’s not something folks today wish to deal with and that has tied our hands

I blame Nazis ....,they made it nigh impossible to deal with inconvenient civilizational truths in an honest productive way

We just punish ourselves and hope for everything to be ok despite thst we have made everything so much worse from Johannesburg to Memphis

Whites cannot fix blacks....the onus is on them

We are not responsible for how they behave here or in the Congo

Let me look for my 1964 movie....it’s anti colonial but despite that tells a very cogent story.....replete lessons i learned personally in Sierra Leone , Haiti , Jamaica , Zambia and elsewhere

https://youtu.be/NHnF85dww3M

[Keyhopper]

Well if she was in line then how did I get in front if her?

[montag813]

"Yes, I do! And thanks to me, YOU have the privilege of having indoor plumbing, antibiotics, trains, airplanes, cars, cell phones, computers, email, lights....so let me just say: YOU'RE WELCOME!"

[Keyhopper]

All men are created equal

[50sDad]

“I checked my privilege. It looks fine to me.”

[50sDad]

Well, blacks invented Jazz and Rock and Roll....but then they screwed it up by inventing Rap, so that’s pretty much a wash.

[greeneyes]

Sounds like a set up to me. Other than ridicule them for the idiots they are, which would only escalate it, I don’t know. So I’ll brainstorm - be kind and don’t ridicule my attempts.

Well, we can’t all be blessed with beautiful black skin can we? Privilege is our consolation prize for having sickly looking white skin. LOL

Or: Our life on earth is but a span, and so we all must do the best we can - I’m sorry you feel that God’s gifts to you are inferior to mine.

These people are crazy. Don’t let their rhetoric make you feel guilty.

[conservative98]

Thanks.

[Vendome]

You are Michael Jackson?

Wait....she was white privileged too....

[Free in Texas]

Thanks! That’s mighty white of you!