Posted on 03/21/2017 10:08:48 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
At least I think she's teaching. She manages to post every silly Democrat meme on Facebook every day, all day.
Diversity Educator
Fake degrees from a fake university.
And that is the crux of the matter. Privilege is not something one is born with or that one inherently possesses, by definition, it is something conferred by another party to the one that has been GRANTED it. Now, when it is granted by someone on the basis of skin color, that is simple discrimination, or at worst, racism. But to reiterate, it is not the fault of the one granted the privilege. It is truly a poor word choice to advance their cause, much like the word tolerance (putting up with something that is abnormal, an anomaly, or irritating; it does not mean acceptance), but it does make for a good T-shirt or bumper sticker.
My white privilege was the opportunity to stack about my half of 1000 bales of hay a day by hand on a trailer, then stuff them in the top of a tin barn roof in 100 degree heat from the time I was 13 till I left for college. At the end of the year when I was 13, my dad offered me $200 for the summer’s work, or a new shotgun. I got a new Beretta to shoot quail with behind our pointers. Of course, if it rained, I got the privilege of throwing, castrating, and vaccinated a few hundred calves for free. When the haying was over, I got the privilege of breaking 8-10 2-year olds for free, but hell, that was fun. At 18, I got the privilege of going to college, fortunately, I had enough money saved from the privilege of stacking bales for the neighbors at night to pay cash for a new Vega ($2600). I also got the privilege of 12 hours of college credit going in because I was privileged enough to test out of six hours of Math, and six hours of English classes, as well as getting a year of school paid for because they thought I was good enough to play baseball, which they soon found out to not be true. The rest of my privileged college life, I worked part time, except when the kids went to spring break, I got to work full time so that I could graduate a semester early and be able to pay off my $1700 in student loans. Life is easy for us privileged few.
OOps I left out he was an Indian coworker.
*Anyone*!
Years ago I would chaulk it up to the GENERATION GAP.
I remember feeling it when I was growing up.
My parents gave us great FAITH and support but I knew more about Current events and sometimes they would not understand.
Its natural for the younger generation to know more of what is new. I am not sure I am explaining enough...
But this is not that.
They hate everything American. SO STUPID.
Freepers....
I'm getting sick and freakin' tired of hearing this "white privilege" bull sh*t. If they keep pushing it, sooner or later it's gonna backfire.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I steadfastly refuse to acknowledge “white privilege”. In fact, it’s kind of fun to have fellow white people randomly hand me $100 bills and say “This is for you, just for being white.” It used to embarrass me but I’ve gotten over it. :=)
My son worked his way to a PhD in physics. No student loans.
This is what I acknowledge: I am white, I don’t hate my whiteness and I feel great about myself.
Being White is AWESOME!
“Elon University scholar “
(snicker)
She can go over and clean some black person’s house. Do the windows too.
Better yet - she can come to my place! The cat’s nose print is all over the windows.
Such people won’t take “yes” for an answer - a tell for serious cognitive dissonance.
You could lead a perfectly non-racist life (please, dear Leftists, explain what that would be short of self-immolation), but they’ll _still_ perpetually insist that you _must_ be racist, that you _are_ guilty of racism, that you’re guilty of _benefiting_ from racism, _something_ something something racism. Why are you, as they now declare, irredeemably & unavoidably racist? you’re white. Yeah, that’s some pretty serious cognitive dissonance going on there.
I prefer white culture to black culture. There, I said it. It’s what I think.
“My son worked his way to a PhD in physics. No student loans.”
My wife & I have 5 degrees. Under $150k, cash up front.
It wasn’t “privilege”, it was having parents who saved what they could to get us started, it was working jobs to earn the difference, it was working hard to get good grades, it was picking schools that were affordable, it was living at home, it was choosing employers that had an education subsidy plan, it was looking for grant/scholarship/etc opportunities, it was moving to where the “we’ll pay you to come here” school was (NY to GA? ok), it was not starting anywhere until a plan to pay for it was in place. Privilege? my schools & employers were filled with “diversity”; nobody was _not_ getting in because of some irrelevant factor, nobody was getting in because of “privilege”.
Like it or not, there are behaviors conducive to success. Act that way, and you’ll likely succeed. Misbehave, and the _objective_ consequences of that will drag you down fast.
On balance, whites born after 1960 are net victims of racism (Affirmative Action). Ignore this “scholar”.
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