Posted on 01/25/2019 2:56:50 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Across the country, re-education sessions are routinely held in businesses, professional offices, medical schools, universities, and even kindergartens. Their purpose is to teach the un-woke about the evils of “white privilege,” and make white people who participate uncomfortable about their skin color. Whites are to own up to the fact that regardless of their intentions, beliefs, behaviors or status in life, they are elite participants in a racist system that oppresses “people of color,” and are so merely because they are white.
But discrimination on the basis of skin color has been outlawed in this country for more than 60 years. One might reasonably ask, “WTF is white privilege”?
Here’s my politically incorrect answer: White privilege is the gift of being the only racial/ethnic group on the planet which it is okay to single out for abuse. Indeed, such abuse is obligatory for all who regard themselves as “woke,” and who aspire to promote “social justice.”
This is a category that includes the media, the popular culture, the educational system, and such shapers of public opinion as Don Lemon; Joy Ann Reid; Joy Behar; Brian Stelter; Rachel Maddow; the editorial boards and reporters of the New York Times and the Washington Post; and the Democratic Party.
“White privilege” is the privilege of being regarded as untrustworthy, prejudiced, and blind to the injustices one’s skin color is said to inflict.
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Well, since by "racist" they mean, "white", they are correct.
Anyone can have privilege.
Stay in school.
Don’t do drugs.
Don’t have a child out of wedlock.
Extra Bonus: have a loving Mom and Dad.
Well stated argument. Sums up the irrationality of the Left.
They really are Orwellian.
“White privilege is the sad mantra of non-whites who believe in their own genetic inferiority, who have given up attempting to compete.”
Precisely. Human nature being what it is - take the path of least resistance - is it easier to come up with a term that puts a large group of people in a position of getting things given to you, not unlike affirmative action, or to knuckle down and work your ass off to show what you are capable of?
Is a claim of racism an excuse for cultural issues?
. . . are cynical.“Woke” is a euphemistic coinage for cynical.
Bottom line, it’s jealousy.
There are benefits to belonging to the majority in any society - majority race, majority faith, majority language, majority social groups.
Ask the ethnic Koreans and Turkish groups compared to the Han Chinese in China.
Ask the non-Spanish speaking Native Americans in Mexico.
The U.S. is almost unique for setting up a national identity independent of ethnicity. Learn the language, adopt the culture, and you’re in. Religion is secondary, race is irrelevant.
However, this makes the defense of said shared culture all the more important. You can dissolve the nation of France and you still have French-speaking, mostly ethnically French would could create a new nation or two based on shared values.
Multi-culturalism is the death of nations that are not racist because it undermines the only thing they have in common. Then we’d just devolve into Balkanized states, or worse, warring ethnic groups because everyone is so spread out barring the mostly Hispanic southwest.
Even worse is the “we know what you’re REALLY thinking, because all you X really think alike”, so we have to indoctrinate you to correct what we know you’re secretly thinking regardless of stated beliefs or actions.
Dr. Jordan Peterson: The Dangers of Unconscious Bias Testing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAPVuuUSUY
It is political indoctrination in the name of fairness and kindness.
“As a subcontractor on state funded construction projects I can tell many stories of discrimination based on skin color. If you are white, good luck. They don’t care how good you are, they only care about the right color.”
Sure, because on a taxpayer-funded project they can pay three or four tokens to do the work of one qualified worker. Seriously!
The vast majority of human beings are “people of color”; the remaining few are albinos.
“or to knuckle down and work your ass off to show what you are capable of?”
Sure - that is why Asians don’t even use the term.
They all get paid the same based on prevailing wage rates..
I understand, my point was that the government (unlike a private business) couldn’t care less whether one person is paid the prevailing wage or four people are - they’ll just take more from us to get uncompetitive tokens on the job.
Regarding actual wages, anyone who would dare to pay a “preferred victim” worker lower wages than a white worker is legally doomed; the charade must be maintained.
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