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Ok, I acknowledge I have "white privilege". Now what?


Stop being so damn right and logical, will you? You're gonna trigger someone...........plus, you're being racist.

Yup, I felt about as dumb saying that as I thought I would.

You are right, of course.
 

White privilege only exists in comparison. It's not so much that whites 'have privileges', but all other ethnic groups have disadvantages. In a true equitable society, those disadvantages would exist. That is why you have a perception that 'white privilege does not exist'. If you have two people starting off at the same level , theoretically, they should have equal opportunity to improve themselves. The white privilege comes in effect where the non-white has to work much harder to get half the result.
 
Yeah, something like that. It's been referred to as the "social contract" but I have never seen this contract in writing. Stuff like, responsibility, obedience to law, family values, work ethic, etc. All that 'white people' stuff. :roll:

White people never riot..

Oh, wait!


...unless they win the SuperBowl.

Then we just rename rioting to "overly exuberant celebration" :lol:
 

i see you can't refute actual facts otherwise you would have addressed them instead of just going uh huh because I say so.
the statistics don't lie. a 2 parent home has way more structured support and with only a 7% poverty rate proves this compared to a single family home.

the same applies to white single parents as well. the reason it is lower is that there are fewer white single parent homes than black people.
that has nothing to do with skin color.

Yep it is proof and it is very much proven. glad you agree that skin color has little to do with it.

it is only absurd because it destroys your "blame the white" guy spill.

way to be dishonest in quoting me. why can't you quote me properly?
nope my arguments are solid based on facts.
 
White privilege is not being called a thug, even when you are being a thug.

 

lmao TV judges.

typical non-argument nonsense thanks for the laugh though.
 

By "similar case" do you mean black serial killers who are also real estate agents?

Or are you focused on how long the serial killer evaded arrest? If so, I'm thinking of Chester Turner, the LA "Southside Killer," who, despite being arrested for other crimes several times, wasn't connected to the killings for seven years and until a sample of his DNA was obtained.

And then there is Coral Eugene Watts, who killed women from Michigan to Texas from 1974 until 1982. (He was a schizophrenic, and somebody I knew taught him in prison and said that when he was one his meds, he was a nice person.) Carl Eugene Watts | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

I don't know that it's so much race as it is occupation that matters here. And killing pattern. Some serial killers are spree killers.
 
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White people never riot..

Oh, wait!


...unless they win the SuperBowl.

Then we just rename rioting to "overly exuberant celebration" :lol:

Apparently, I have done a poor job of communicating to you my personal point of view.

If you go back to my previous posts, you will note that I am already on record as stating that doing the "right" thing is not monopolized by any race. One does not have to be 'white' to do the right thing. Doing the 'right' thing is not an issue of color but rather an issue of character.

I was being satiric when I replied to your post suggesting that because many in the black culture choose not to do the 'right' thing as determined by me, a 'white' guy, I am the one at fault here.

Again, doing the 'right' thing is not a color coded task. Right is right, wrong is wrong and the understood 'social contract' in American society, is understood to be acts of obeying the laws, determined by collective representation, being responsible, having family values established by societies norm and the laws of nature, as well as all the good things that makes a society a good society.

It almost appears as if you are saying the black American society is unable to abide by the given demands of a social contract. That is an insult to black people if you really think about it but I digress. That would be up to a black person to decide if they are offended by that.

I know a LOT of black folks holding up their end to the 'social contract' so don't anyone say it can't be done. Don't anyone ever say that doing the right thing is owned by white people because it is not. All people, who aspire to be of good character, will do a a lot better in life than the other people who choose to live outside the behaviors considered to be acceptable. Matters not their skin color. It's about character.

Making excuses or pressing blame on others for the lack of 'character' in many dregs of our society, only serves to enable and propagate such behaviors that further harm society.

Sometimes, you just have to tell it like it is. You cannot fix a problem until you acknowledge a problem exists. Sorry I have to be the messenger. It ain't easy being me.
 
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1.) Im fine with that assessment and have no problem with it. Thats because thats honest conversation.
2.) correct . . .and of course that is reality and thats ignoring the melodramatic, dishonest, triggered, false outrage questions of you mean EVERT WHITE PERSON HAS IT EASY??? of course you didnt say that though. . . but thats what the extremist and dishonest hear/read.

Good job and good post
 
White Privilege: When George W Bush gets a degree from Yale and Donald Trump gets one from Wharton, they earned it. When Barack Obama gets one from Harvard and his wife Michelle gets one from Princeton--Affirmative Action.
 
i see you can't refute actual facts
nope my arguments are solid based on facts.

what facts? LMAO we are waiting . . why cant you answer? Please post the facts that make white privilege not exist
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any bets it NEVER happens?
 

then why say I am privileged when I am not. the only reason to try an assign that to someone is a poor attempt at blame. that I am somehow more special because of the color of my skin.
that is the same rhetoric that white militants use. not a good logic road to go down.

I have also posted my proof re: the existence of privilege as demonstrated by the disparity statistics readily available for anyone with an internet account and a brain.

I have proved that culture has more to do with those statistics than does the color of their skin.




I have posted plenty to support my claims the fact you ignore them is not my issue. you on the other hand have not.
yes you have spouted a bunch of rhetoric for the past couple of days.
you might try to actual read something and stop projecting SJ rhetoric at people.

facts are facts. cultural attitude has more of an impact than skin color.
more so family conditions have more of an impact than skin color.

the facts don't lie.
also these things don't apply to just blacks it applies to all colors of skin.

you want to close the gap fix the family unit first. skin color won't fix that.
 
Stop being so damn right and logical, will you? You're gonna trigger someone...........plus, you're being racist.

Yup, I felt about as dumb saying that as I thought I would.

You are right, of course.

I cant help it, its just how i am
 

All of us whities are required to submit to analysis by a Trump certified tech using a Trump certified tech calibrated spectrometer to determine the exact degree of whiteness or lack thereof. Following that, a downward flow of reparations from lightness to darkness will take place.

Get a TAN, MAN!
 

Yes.

I would add, that's what ALL privilege is. The definition:

priv·i·lege

/ˈpriv(ə)lij/

noun

noun: privilege; plural noun: privileges

1. a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.

It's not just about rights, but also immunities and advantages. So the fact that disparity exists at all points to immunities and advantages for those in the non-marginalized demographic. This is pretty basic.
 
White privilege is not being called a thug, even when you are being a thug.

Oh please........

The most famous thugs in history are white. They were called thugs then and they're called thugs now.

People are called thugs when they are lawless, violent and in general, pieces of ****. Skin color has nothing to do with it. You think Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, were called thugs because of their skin color?
 


Governess led the way in challenging my view. In post #160 I concede.

I made most of my posts in this thread tongue-in-cheek. After 58 years of Segregation (Separate but Equal), 1896 - 1954, I think our Nation has made remarkable progress on the racial front, certainly evidenced by Obama's eight years as POTUS. Progress, not perfection... may our Best Times lie ahead!
 

Please reference the posts where you've cited statistics that support your views, I haven't seen them. "Cuz I said so" is not statistical proof, by the way, just so you're not confused out of the gates.

You are privileged, by nature of the fact that you belong to a privileged demographic. How you mess it up from there is certainly on you, or your parents maybe, but before you did a single thing in your life you were born into a privileged demographic simply because you were born white.

I tell you it's not about guilt, you say it is, that's on you, boo boo. Go back and see how often I've explained the guilt aspect, I'm not doing it again.
 
Maybe we should start with the basics, you know since people need to learn to walk before they can run.

1. Are there advantages to being born into wealth or legacy, you know things like knowing your grandfather was a WW2 war hero or started a successful plumbing business and then found a better way to make faucets? It's helpful to be one of their grand kids. Right?

2. Were Whites at a huge advantage versus Blacks in things like acquiring an education, having business opportunities and the ability to accumulate wealth--you know, like starting a plumbing business and patenting a new style of faucet--down in the Southern US prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Probably. Right?

3. Were Whites at an even bigger advantage than Blacks in the antebellum South when Whites could actually own Blacks and sell them off like cattle? Uh, yeah, without a doubt. Amirite?

Of course there is white privilege. Denying it is asinine.
 
White privilege is not being called a thug, even when you are being a thug.
"Thug" not not part of my normal vocabulary. The only person I recall calling a thug in recent years is Vladimir Putin. I've called him a thug many times. That's how I view him.
 

Last year, I spent about 7 months down in Texas, coming down from the north east. The way that the minorities are treated down there has a much more blatant discrimination. Where I was, there were very few blacks, so I didn't get much opportunity to see how the attitudes of people who had to interact with them as much as I saw with the Hispanic population, but the service in restaurants was sometimes different, and there was a huge difference in how the folks behind the desk in city hall treated people of Mexican decent and whites. They were much more accommodating to me, even though I was an obvious Yankee, verses people who had Mexican accents and were of darker complexion. While I had intellectually understood the concept of 'white privilege' before, that sort of had it hit home. I don't think most people thought about it at all, since it was just the way things were, and what they were used to.
 
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