Daily effects of white privelige (the complete list)

Arizona State University ^ | 3/26/08 | Peggy McIntosh, PhD

[Callahan]

Since it's "Typical White Person" week here at FR, I thought I would post this handy list of white priveleges pulled from "Gender & Ethnicity" class resource at Arizona State University. Click the link for all 50 reasons to feel guilty. Seems like they missed a few. I would add:

51. I can put Barry Manilow on my iPod without losing street cred.

52. I can dance poorly without somebody calling an ambulance.

53. I can make lists about white people that prove how sensitive and angst-ridden I am.

[randog]

Wow, what a racist.

[Patrick1]

Indeed. After reading this article I was so guilt ridden that I threw out my Vanilla Ice album and my wife's Cher collection.

I'm tearing up as I write this.

54. As I White Person I can actually name my high school team after me and no one is offended.

55. I can pay as much taxes as the government tells me too and I have no right to complain because I'm privileged.

[svcw]

54. I can be a stupid whiny white girl without fear of being called and idiot.
55. Never mind..you stupid whiny idiot white girl..now you should feel better.

[Cecily]

54. I can talk a good game and score points with my fellow hand wringers/thumb suckers/moral preeners, while secretly gloating that I have all this “privilege.”

[Billthedrill]

Oh, yeah. The poison of Critical Race Theory is all over the trendier corners of the Humanties caves. This list is symptomatic of a particularly irritating offshoot, Critical Whiteness Theory. People get paid big bucks for spouting this silliness. It beats working.

[Sonny M]

I feel odd.

I'm asian, and yet somehow, someway, I enjoy white privilege.

So, can we rename this white/asian privilege?

Or is this privilege open to pretty much everybody, since I seem to have it without having been born (and also not looking) white?

[Patrick1]

White privilege is available to all who work or retired from years of American exceptional-ism. Welcome Asian and Black brothers to this wonderful world of privilege.

[the invisib1e hand]

Daily effects of white privelige (the complete list)

You can misspell privilege.

If someone looks at you, you can bellow in a booming, threatening, voice, "YOU LOOKIN AT ME, SUCKA?" and noone will say anything.

Oh,wait...nevermind.

[dennisw]

I'm asian, and yet somehow, someway, I enjoy white privilege.

 

Vietnamese came here destitute and now their children are honors students. And they (and other Asians) do great on IQ and SAT tests that are allegedly culturally biased. Maybe when you learn proper English, are intelligent, sober and apply yourself you become an honorary white

 

[SmithL]

35. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race

Yeah Miss Piggy, we know how you got your job.

[Petronski]

This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" (1988), by Peggy McIntosh; available for $4.00 from the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA 02181 The working paper contains a longer list of privileges.

Hold on folks! Form a line: there's enough guilt to go around for anyone. Your four bucks is as good as the next typical white person.

[Zeppo]

Wonder whether she has enumerated all of the benefits of her “female privilege” that are denied to me on a daily basis because I am a man...

[Sonny M]

Maybe when you learn proper English, are intelligent, sober and apply yourself you become an honorary white

I drink a couple of bottles of bourbon every week.

However, to me, its about hard work, intelligence, and not being obsessed with trying to be a victim 24/7.

[Alouette]

Daily effects of white privelige

I can get a PhD without learning how to spell "privilege"

[freespirited]

You can be denied admission to college despite having much better qualifications than “underrepresented minorities.”

That’s privilege!

[wardaddy]

man....I feel sorry for all that money her folks wasted on her

it shoulda gone for self esteem therapy....what a nuerotic beyatch

go have a few illegitimate black kids honey

atone....the world will pay for it

[wardaddy]

hey....actually as an Asian since you guys outperform even we racist white folks (and we all know Asians are even more clannish than folks admit)

any group that flourishes must feel bad and be blamed for those groups that don’t\

now drop down and give me twenty Mr Probably Better At Math Than A White Guy Dude!

/s

[NucSubs]

Exactly. Someone needs to come up with a counter list.

[grey_whiskers]

Peggy McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley Collage Center for Research on Women. This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" (1988), by Peggy McIntosh; available for $4.00 from the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA 02181 The working paper contains a longer list of privileges.

This excerpted essay is reprinted from the Winter 1990 issue of Independent School.

An eighteen year-old essay from a guilt-ridden Massachusetts liberal elitist.

(And Peggy? You might want to ask what behaviours are glorified in contemporary non-white communities -- e.g. "gangsta rap" and "narcotic" and "gang-banging" and "no family structure" -- which might change the dynamics of inter-racial relations in a game-theory sort of way...)

'Nuff said.

Cheers!