Confronting My White Privilege: Here's What I Discovered

American Thinker ^ | 01/24/2024 | Christopher Skeet

[SeekAndFind]

I don’t know about you, but if I’m ever anesthetized and under the surgeon’s knife, I would prefer the chap on the other end of the scalpel be focused solely on correcting my ailment, stitching me up, and most importantly keeping me alive. Ah, but I would prefer that, wouldn’t I, inherent bigot that I am?

Thankfully, the luminaries at Ohio State University now offer a course in which aspiring health professionals, particularly those lacking melanin, are invited to...wait for it...confront their privilege!  Because if you’re an anti-racist, then that’s what you want your surgeon worrying about.  His privilege.  Not your open chest. 

According to the Ohio State University course, this privilege “protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color.”  Gotcha.  So not only am I protected from minority violence, but I am subtly being violent and hostile toward minorities.  That certainly would explain my nasty habit of roaming the Chicago streets in sub-zero weather, noose and bleach in hand, ever on the prowl for the unwary Subway-frequenting gay actor of color. 

The documented evidence may suggest otherwise.  The FBI statistics illustrate that whites are over five times more likely to suffer violent crime at the hands of blacks than vice versa.  But statistics are racist.  Whom are you gonna believe, the wokerati at Ohio State University or your own gaping bullet wound? 

Progressives approach scientific questions in reverse order from how we flyover rubes do.  We would look at the success or failure of an individual and apply the scientific method to determine the causes thereof.  Progressives determine the cause (i.e., privilege or oppression) beforehand and then cherry-pick their way backwards to shoehorn whatever evidence, real or imagined, into the hypothesis.

[SeekAndFind]

Any evidence that contradicts their hypothesis is ignored or vilified.  Because the scientific method is by their reasoning, racist.

[NorthMountain]

I don’t know about you

No, Chrissy, you don't.

Skeet at the Urban Dictionary. Jus' sayin' ...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Azhos need to give us white folks a break. That scumbag RACE CARD TRUMPS “white privilege” every time.

[NorthMountain]

OK ... I read the article. Apologies to the author ...

[Red Badger]

Somebody please tell me where I can get me some? I seem to have been skipped when they were handing it out at birth......................

[I want the USA back]

They keep pushing the lie of ‘white privilege’ so Whiteys won’t squeal too much as they are replaced.

[SeekAndFind]

FROM THE ARTICLE.... A LIST OF “PRIVILEGES” WHITEY ENJOYS:

Here are but a few of the privileges that I, as a white person, enjoy:

I enjoy all-white colleges. At colleges where non-whites are permitted to attend, I enjoy all-white dorms, fraternities, and other campus organizations. I enjoy administrative bureaucrats enforcing DIE orthodoxy, which ensures that I, as a white person, am provided “safe spaces” far away from people “of color” and their dangerous, unorthodox opinions and ideas.

I enjoy my own national anthem, played at sporting events with the intention of kowtowing to my race alone. For everyone else, there’s “The Star-Spangled Banner,” during the playing of which I am encouraged to sit, kneel, and exhibit as much disrespect as I can.

I enjoy White History Month, during which time schools across the land are required to focus not only on white history, but specifically on times in history during which whites were the victims and non-whites were the oppressors.
I enjoy Noventeenth, a holiday marking the first Treaty of Tripoli, which outlawed the enslavement of white Americans by North African Muslims (who, it should be noted, promptly violated the terms).

I enjoy Kwhitezaa, a holiday for whites by whites to celebrate exclusively white heritage and white empowerment, and invented out of thin air by a white power activist who spent time in prison for kidnapping and torturing women.
I enjoy exclusive rights to my culture, as I see fit to define it. Any non-white guilty of “stealing” my culture can be justly accused of cultural appropriation. Also, I can appropriate the culture of non-whites to my heart’s content.

I enjoy representation in our legislature by the White Congressional Caucus, which advances laws designed to benefit me solely along racial lines, to the detriment of every other race.

I enjoy White Entertainment Television and White Music Awards shows. I enjoy exclusively white magazines such as Ivory and White Enterprise.

I enjoy movie remakes, especially from Disney, in which the original non-white characters are recast as white. But only as the protagonists. And no characters who were originally white are ever recast as non-white. I enjoy the disclaimers put on older cartoons apologizing for the crude caricatures of white physical appearances and vocal accents, such as PePe Le Pew, the Mario Brothers, Groundskeeper Willie, Yosemite Sam, Timothy Q. Mouse, Trusty and Jock, and countless others.

I enjoy product brands removing crude white stereotypes from their products, like Lucky Charms and Quaker Oats. I enjoy sports teams like the Minnesota Vikings, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish who likewise change their team names and make the proper apologies to the whites they’ve unfairly disparaged as a gaggle of violent savages.

I enjoy an embedded narrative that treats any negative interaction between me and a member of another race as proof of racist intent by the other person.

I enjoy a national media establishment that will believe any story I tell, no matter how utterly nonsensical, that involves me being beaten, threatened, or otherwise attacked by a member of another race. Even when ironclad evidence arises that the incident was fabricated, that same media establishment will nonetheless defend me for giving voice to “my truth.”

I enjoy knowing that if I do commit a crime against a member of another race, the media will downplay the racial element and focus on my “access” to whatever inanimate weapon I used or on my “poverty.” If a non-white commits a crime against me, I know that the media will focus entirely on the racial element, even if it is entirely circumstantial, and will use this singular example as evidence of widespread, systemic racism against whites.

I enjoy the international pushes for recognition of, and reparations for, both the land stolen from indigenous peoples, and also their murder and enslavement by the millions, by genocidal Islamic supremacists who laid waste to entire Christian, Jewish, and polytheist civilizations across Arabia, Persia, Byzantium, North Africa, and southern Europe for almost 1,400 years now and counting.

[brownsfan]

It’s easy to fix white privilege, if you believe you’re afflicted. Find a black family in need, and give them your possessions.

Fixed.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Find a black family in need, and give them your possessions.

Does it work the other way around for well-off blacks like Oprah Winfrey?

[gitmo]

Or adopt 5-6 black teenagers.

[drwoof]

Correct.

[Bon of Babble]

The FBI statistics illustrate that whites are over five times more likely to suffer violent crime at the hands of blacks than vice versa.

Perfect example of a "right-wing conspiracy theory" with "no basis in scientific fact," right, FBI?

I'd like you to explain how "White Privilege" gets our "privileged" White kids into colleges and medical schools and gives them access to lucrative, race-based scholarships that are set aside just for them - or how our "privileged White" kids have preference to get hired into organizations such as the FBI.

[metmom]

Excellent.

What a fantasy land, though.

[metmom]

Does it work the other way around for well-off blacks like Oprah Winfrey?

She'd never give a white family her possessions and I doubt she'd give a struggling black family a hand up either.

Could you see obama doing that? Me either.

[Hiddigeigei]

”I don’t know about you, but if I’m ever anesthetized and under the surgeon’s knife, I would prefer ...”
“No, Chrissy, you don't.”

Would you enlighten us about what you would prefer under the circumstances described, NorthMountain? Just curious.

[NorthMountain]

See #4

[Impala64ssa]

Excellent!! Speaking of Lucky Charms, a then unknown James O'Keefe as a gag "demanded" that Lucky Charms be banned from the Rutgers cafeterias because it perpetuates negative Irish stereotypes. And the administration fell for it.

It would've been hilarious if someone of Italian ancestry called for a boycott of Nintendo for creating the Mario and Luigi video games. The characters are depicted with dark hair, heavy mustaches and speak with an obvious Italian accent, sometimes programmed to blurt out Italian expressions such as MOMMA MIA!
Too bad the perpetually offended crybullies weren't around in the 50's and 60's. Ads such as this were on the busses and subways all over NYC. Levy's bakery used Blacks, Natives, Asians, people who obviously weren't Jewish for their ads. Very clever marketing that would've triggered the woke fools

[wafflehouse]

Because the scientific method is by their reasoning, racist.

this is incorrect, or perhaps correct only by accident. Their hypothesis is not a hypothesis in the sense they are on a scientific mission, it is propaganda where the evidence for or against does not matter and only the end goal (the ever benevolent 'dictatorship of the proletariat') is important regardless of the damage caused on the journey.

giving them the benefit of the doubt that they are honestly debating something of worth is a waste of your time and resources. call it what it is. 'White Privilege' is abysmally stupid and insulting to the intelligence of a cockroach. That so many people fall for it says a lot about intelligence and why there are still so many cockroaches of all stripes

[bk1000]

“ which I was being subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color.”

First off, stop using that ridiculous phrase “people of color”.
Second, why would the majority genuflect to any minority?
Who thinks if the country was majority black there wouldn’t be privilege like never seen before?

[gitmo]

The list of 14 privileges afforded to the author because he is white is hilarious.