Posted on 06/16/2015 2:02:21 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Stolen Valor, as defined in the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 (H.R. 258), is the fraudulent claim of military award or decoration with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit from convincing someone that he or she did rightfully receive the award or decoration.
I wish to coin a phrase and concept: Stolen Privilege. This is the fraudulent claim of racial composition with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit from convincing someone that he or she was a particular race.
In the last year, we have heard incessantly about White Privilege. This is defined as having societal privileges or having advantages in America -- indeed, the entire Western world -- just for being white. So, let us consider the privileges associated with being colors other than white? There are advantages, financial and otherwise, to claiming Native American status. There are advantages, financial and otherwise, to claiming African American status.
One can cogently argue that these other-than-white Privileges are a requisite offset for decades of systemic oppression. I don't disagree. But still, privileges they are, and they are afforded on the basis of color.
One of these privileges is the tendency of NAACP groups to hire, as their Chapter President a man or woman of color. Rachel Dolezal was hired as the Spokane Chapter President of the NAACP, and she remained Chapter President for a very long time, with the understanding that she was black -- even though she was white all along.
Rachel Dolezal is guilty of Stolen Privilege.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has claimed Native American Ancestry several times, most recently in a book "A Fighting Chance", even though her claims have been debunked many times and by many groups.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is guilty of Stolen Privilege.
I would never advocate that ‘Stolen Privilege’ should ever be made into a prosecutable law -- we have far too many laws, and far too many of them border on criminalizing simple foolishness -- but I do advocate that Stolen Privilege should be a concept used to mock and shame those who abuse the truth in a quest for money or power.
Well-done bump!
How about slick willy being the First Black President! LOL
How much for the Extended Warranty?
Guanometer ... LOL!!
My pleasure ... but I can’t take credit for it. I, er, ahem, “borrowed” it from someone on Facebook < blush >
LOLOL...love it!
Funny .....but true.
+100 for the reference “SoreLoserman”
You rock, ‘Girl. (You’re going waaaaaaay back)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/647891/replies?c=15
Heh.
That’s great, you remembered that.
That post was made into bumperstickers and appeared all over California, culminating in a Dump Davis rally in Sacramento.
And the rest was history. Really.
Shhhhhh....be vewy, vewy quiet...we’re hunting Democrats here...
What a campaign it was!!! A winning phrase!
And what about the pretend Conservatives who only pretend just to get elected? And how come no one self identifies as a Redneck?..love your graphic btw
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