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Daily effects of white privelige (the complete list)
Arizona State University ^ | 3/26/08 | Peggy McIntosh, PhD

Posted on 03/26/2008 3:41:25 PM PDT by Callahan

I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life. I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographic location, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined. As far as I can tell, my African American coworkers, friends, and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place and time of work cannot count on most of these conditions.

1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.

3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.

(Excerpt) Read more at seamonkey.ed.asu.edu ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: race; racism; typical; white
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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.

1 posted on 03/26/2008 3:41:25 PM PDT by Callahan
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Wow, what a racist.


2 posted on 03/26/2008 3:48:25 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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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.

3 posted on 03/26/2008 3:48:47 PM PDT by Patrick1
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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.


4 posted on 03/26/2008 3:48:49 PM PDT by svcw (The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
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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.”


5 posted on 03/26/2008 3:50:00 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Callahan
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.
6 posted on 03/26/2008 3:52:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Callahan
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?

7 posted on 03/26/2008 3:54:09 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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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.
8 posted on 03/26/2008 3:56:57 PM PDT by Patrick1
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To: Callahan
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.

9 posted on 03/26/2008 3:57:33 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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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

 

10 posted on 03/26/2008 4:03:50 PM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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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.

11 posted on 03/26/2008 4:05:17 PM PDT by SmithL (Reject Obama's Half-Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: Callahan
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.

12 posted on 03/26/2008 4:07:15 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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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...


13 posted on 03/26/2008 4:38:55 PM PDT by Zeppo (Every mighty mild... seventies child... Beats me (Metric - Combat Baby))
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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.

14 posted on 03/26/2008 5:39:23 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Callahan
Daily effects of white privelige

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

15 posted on 03/26/2008 5:40:59 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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You can be denied admission to college despite having much better qualifications than “underrepresented minorities.”

That’s privilege!


16 posted on 03/26/2008 9:41:11 PM PDT by freespirited (My dog thinks she is a typical white person.)
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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


17 posted on 03/26/2008 10:26:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
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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


18 posted on 03/26/2008 10:29:18 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

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


19 posted on 03/27/2008 7:55:10 AM PDT by NucSubs (Democrat:: one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.)
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To: Callahan
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!

20 posted on 03/28/2008 4:57:56 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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