Just remember to 'check your privilege!
Only in the twisted, hate filled minds of the Bolsheviks at “The Nation” could Appalachian poor people be described as “privileged”.
Beyond incredible.
so he’s arguing poor whites receive more government assistance than poor blacks? I don’t think that’s true.
That title is a hoot. Thank God rich people were throwing bottles out of their cars in the 70’s. 15c for a 24oz. 10c for a 16oz.
I became a privileged white millionaire; or sumthin’.
I am getting tired of these asshats and it won’t be friendly.
There wasn’t a lot of money in the area just outside where I grew up. What was just recently the poorest place in Michigan isn’t Detroit, Flint, or Benton Harbor, but my own Roscommon. Roscommon has its issues, especially with the housing crash and tourism hits, but is also a lot safer than these cities. An average person isn’t going to get jumped, robbed, or attacked there for being in “the wrong area”. You have to look for trouble to find it.
No, that's what denial of contraindicative evidence is. This entire White Privilege drive is appallingly racist and it is simply amazing to me how much press it's getting. My answer to "check your privilige" is "check your bigotry."
This is the kind of drek that is destroying America.
White Privilege is just another term for race baiters
to use to divide people into “victims” and “oppressors”.
I can see where this is going-
Sometime in the near Future-
MSNBC Interviewer: What do you think about the five children who were placed against a wall and shot last week?
Black Professor: Well, it just goes to show you that white privilege is still rampant in a racist America.
MSNBC Interviewer: Interesting. How so?
Black Professor: Clearly these children’s whiteness gave them the opportunity to be shot instead of hung like black children obviously would have been. The white children got to die quickly as a result of their racism and white privilege.
*******
Is this future scenario offensive?
GOOD!
Because that’s how offensive is that men can publicly suggest that Jews who survived the Holocaust and little Appalachian kids with sores and rotted teeth got off easy and still have damn job the next day!
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I don't know where Mr. Smith, the author of the referenced article, went to school. But the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend to take care of the poor.
Cure the problem, eliminate all government assistance !
Make your own way in this world or croak!
Where can I cash in on some of my privilege? Apparently I am getting huge benefits based on approximate skin shade. I’m missing out here. Where do I go? Is there some big White Privilege house where they’re handing out money, or jobs, or cell phones, or college degrees?
A$$HOLE! I didn’t get priority in college application, or jobs. I paid for my cell phone. No government agency sends me money.
I grew up poor, raised by a single woman and so on, but among poor whites at the time, you still had high IQs sprinkled throughout and a high average IQ.
In my family, on my mother’s side it was a background of sharecroppers and fruit pickers and the usual, but while few of them were interested in big money careers and did things like the military, and the regular Joe jobs, that IQ was always there, the book reading, the interest in history, the under achieving Mensa members.
When I look at those old photos of the sod house pioneers, and the 1930s poor, I still see people who when the got involved in something could bring that IQ to bear, could become Colonels and Generals and Doctors, and Business owners and politicians and TV repair shop owners, all without affirmative action, and they had a good labor pool to man their enterprises, people with good average IQs and decent educations even if it was only the 8th grade, and a foundation of history, patriotism, and religion.
Per my Father when I was 13 Years Old, “nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work”.
Applies to all Races, Creeds and Colors.
I swear, if I wasn’t a racist before, I likely will be before all this is over.
bullshit
does he think there are no black kids in Alabama in the rural areas? Mississippi? Arkansas? Guess again.
Mao perpetuated myths about the Chinese middle class to justify its extermination. Every ethnic bigot in history has had an argument to justify his position.