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What is white privilege?
JnRockwall
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Sadly, far too many will fail to understand.
This article is as good as explanation of the situation as I have seen.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/25/we_have_a_moral_divide_not_a_racial_one_124753.html
https://screen.yahoo.com/white-000000112.html
Privilege
1. Privi-: that's a place where one ponders the problems of the world while improving his mind with the best available publications, such as Playboy. Or Plowboy if you live in the country, where most privis are located.
2. -lege: A small foothold usually over a precipice likely to cause great * harm of death if you lose your footing.
In other words, white privilege means if you are white, you better walk carefully or you will fall into a craphole.[8D]
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Yep, white privilege is a terrible thing I tells ya.
White privilege is being top of your class in fire/EMT training, and being employed after all of the minorities that barely passed, including females that didn't even have to do the same physical agility test.
Yep, white privilege is a terrible thing I tells ya.
Yup, white privilege is also being denied a job promotion after passing the promotion test at 98% just so they can give the job to a black female who scored 70% on the same test
quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
White privilege is being top of your class in fire/EMT training, and being employed after all of the minorities that barely passed, including females that didn't even have to do the same physical agility test.
Yep, white privilege is a terrible thing I tells ya.
Yup, white privilege is also being denied a job promotion after passing the promotion test at 98% just so they can give the job to a black female who scored 70% on the same test
There is absolute truth to these comments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
As hard as I've worked since at least the age of 13, I have a hard time conjuring up the sense of being "privileged" in any way due to my being a Caucasian.
I do feel rather privileged to be an American by birth and ancestry. That's a gift from my ancestors, for which I am deeply appreciative.
What the blank does this have to do with politics?
OMG,.......we're in Politics now!!!!!!![:0][:0][:0]
What the blank does this have to do with politics?
OH.....Just everything[:)]
So the 80-90 hour week the wifey and I put in is nothing but a privilege for our kids? And its a privilege because our kids are whit(ish)? Or because their parents dont work?
OMG,.......we're in Politics now!!!!!!![:0][:0][:0]
What the blank does this have to do with politics?
I think it has to do with decisions being made using personal emotions than actual rational logic, but that is just a guess.
White Privilege is most often espoused by white liberals who went to elite colleges that could only be afforded by rich parents. They never have to work for anything, so they assume that it's because of some mysterious power only Caucasian people possess (Asians, who on average do better than whites, credit their success on hard work, so no "yellow privilege" exists) and has nothing to do with the tax-deferred trust fund that mommy and daddy set up for them at birth.
Those who rail the loudest against "white privilege" are whites who grew up poor or from broken homes and have none of the advantages that being white supposedly grants them.
Brain washing For the masses.
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
white privilege would be to be able to say say Burn this * down ....like michael browns dad and not be arrested or his mom for assault and battery not to mention theft and not be arrested...
...and being invited to speak before the U.N. after the assault, battery and theft.
Brad Steele
During WWII our government rounded up all the Asians in this country and put them in concentration camps and held them there even after the war was over for 3 years. These people lost everything they had and a lot of them were born here and had never been out of the country. If they had done that to the blacks they'd still be howling about it and demanding reparations. The Asians didn't do anything but pick themselves back up and go back to work and to school and continued on with their lives and now are better off than whites or blacks. So that pretty much shoots a hole in the white privilege thing. It's a matter of IQ and a willingness to work hard and it has nothing to do with any BS privileges of any sort!!
Very good reply, I happen to know of such a family(Japanese) and they started with nothing...He is the guy that made the first"Surimi" artificial crab meat from fish products....
Maybe all us old farts have lived to long. We seem to be out of touch with what ever is todays reality. Just when did working hard become a rare commodity??