That's a pretty fine-tooth distinction and if it's commonly missed, maybe the problem doesn't always lie with the choice of the hearers?
How do you know that for a fact? It's not as if it hasnt happened to plenty of white people. I wonder if Daniel Shaver also "knew for a fact" that he wasn't going to be shot by cops.
And yes, the incidence of police shootings is higher per capita for black people than for whites. But it happens to people of all "races".
I feel like maybe I should clarify for the thread that I am in no way disputing that white privilege is a thing.
The way I've said that is that what 'white privilege' is trying to say is right, but it is the wrong way to look at it. We wouldn't say that people who haven't been raped have 'unraped privilege'.
As I understand it, white privilege includes things like
(1) not being viewed with suspicion by police,
(2) getting job interviews or coop board approvals without anybody wondering weather you will be a "good fit" based on your skin color,
(3) having a stable living arrangement while growing up,
(4) going to better schools or having more professionally useful social networks from a young age. (Not all white people have these privileges, of course, it's a generalization).
On one occasion I DID run from the cops due to outstanding warrants.
I did get caught, did get arrested, did go to jail, but in the end the judge dismissed the charge of fleeing and I never got roughed up when I pulled over.
On another occasion my old chum Gerard, who I hadn't seen in well over a decade, took me to Malibu and we got pulled over because he had a DIY sovereign citizen license plate and no driver's license.
We ended up face down on the asphalt because Gerard jumped into the back of his van to fetch his copy of the Constitution which he felt authorized him to drive with no license and no valid plates.
Yeah, he'd changed a lot since I'd seen him last.
But who checks license plates on a car when you're getting a ride from a buddy??
But we didn't get shot.
And believe me, a sketchy guy with sketchy fake plates jumping into the back of a van and furiously rummaging around back there usually makes a cop's trigger finger very itchy because they assume (quite rightly) that the person is fetching A GUN.
So my point is, neither of us are BLACK, which is why both of us survived.
I once tried to ask on this forum, why for example a Russian emigrant should be complex because of the culture of "white privilege" that is so desperately being imposed in the United States today...
I did not get an answer, or rather there was no clear one. In the United States, they are quite xenophobic towards Russians like me, and therefore a constructive dialogue does not work.
Therefore, I will ask another hypothetical question - there is such a Scandinavian people, the Sami. Google who doesn't know.
This people never participated in the Scandinavian expansion into Europe, because of the original warehouse could not build their own statehood in the entire history, because they did not participate in wars, did not keep slaves, and more often they themselves became victims of foreign expansion.
In the United States, these people will be considered white, only they have nothing to do with either slavery or segregation, but they will be under the yoke of a culture of general white repentance... and here's my question - why?
No, it wasn't. By inserting comments in the middle of the quote, you would need to cite it twice, below each of the separated texts, or if the comments came from the cite your format is wrong. Anyway...Citation was properly attributed.
White people get active advantage. They get jobs and breaks and such.
What's the difference between less disadvantage and 'active' advantage?
You didn't even look at the citation. That quote in the middle was part of the citation. It was not mine.No, it wasn't. By inserting comments in the middle of the quote, you would need to cite it twice, below each of the separated texts, or if the comments came from the cite your format is wrong. Anyway...
The point made in the article is correct. White supremacy isn't people in hoods, it's so much more. Perhaps you should inform yourself.
If you don't know anything about white privilege, which is obviously intentionally ignorant and racist, then why are you in a thread about it? Don't you think you should be reading?
*shrugs* I'm always willing to learn, always attempting despite my ignorant background to pull myself up by my intellectual bootstraps, so to speak, but sometimes it helps to have constructive input from enlightened folk with different perspectives.
Sadly it seems that folk like you and to a lesser extent Phys are determined to be the caricature of slogan-citing knee-jerk name-calling libruls conservatives love to raise up as poster-boys for their fear and ire
Playing stupid and being intentionally ignorant to racist purpose is not "just asking questions". Who do you think you're fooling?
Only idiots deny white privilege so it's doing a great job. It's practically a sign that racists can wear. What more could we ask of a concept than to serve as a sign for racists to hold high and identify themselves for all to see. What better result?
To teach them? Don't make me laugh. Getting them to identify themselves is more than a concept can hope for.
Bravo, concept, bravo.
What is "white privilege"? As I understand it, white privilege includes things like (1) not being viewed with suspicion by police, (2) getting job interviews or coop board approvals without anybody wondering weather you will be a "good fit" based on your skin color, (3) having a stable living arrangement while growing up, (4) going to better schools or having more professionally useful social networks from a young age. (Not all white people have these privileges, of course, it's a generalization).
That said, we appear to have reached, if not a turning point, at least an inflection point in terms of public willingness to do something about race. So some may say that the recent focus on "white privilege" is achieving its goal. Maybe the only solution to get white people to act is to make them feel like less than innocent bystanders?
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