The Fallacy of White Privilege

[GMDino]

(10-01-2016, 02:36 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: That is complete and utter bullshit.  How many white people wouldn't trade places with Michael Jordan?  That joke is, what, a false strawman?  The premise is that racism isn't only rampant, but so dominant that people wouldn't "tolerate" being black in exchange for fame and fortune.  Now THAT is funny.  Sure, potentially not being able to get a cab back to my NY penthouse apartment is a real deal breaker....

White privilege is largely an invention of activists in response to failed social and liberal policies....or perhaps in response to their success - the lack of overt racism as society progresses leads to insinuations of hidden racism which can't honestly be proven or disproven.

And again this comes down to a definition of "racism".

If blacks prefer to live and hang out with black (most of the time) are they "racist"?

If an Asian man has white friends and not black one is he a "racist"?

But the flippant attitude that somehow the racism is only "insinuated" is just wrong.  They invent new words and new rules to cover it up but its still prevalent in society today from the government to private business.

I have worked at places where the employees flipped out because a black man filled out an application.  Just the application....didn't get hired.

Why?  They had a black guy there before and he was "lazy".

They also had a dozen white guys who were always late for work, got caught sleeping during their shift and/or were fired for doing/dealing drugs in the parking lot.

But black people are "lazy"...don't hire "them".

I've had conversations with dozen of people who tell me that don't hate blacks!  They hate "n***ers!  They are different from blacks.

A few of those conversations occurred while they were waiting for their welfare check at the post office box and it was running a day late because "those "n***ers" get theirs first because the government thinks they deserve it more!"

Its a big country filled with ugly people.

Are they a majority?  No way.  Not even a large minority.

But big enough, and in many cases influential enough.

One might be running for president right now.  Hard to tell if he's all things (sexist, racist, elitist) or just a raging dbag...but either way he's stirring up that minority and they are emboldened.

Racism will ALWAYS be a problem.

And when it is called out (even if if they are right to call it out) there will be those saying either a) its just s small problem, get over it or b) there is no problem its all in your head.

Which are two things that someone who has had the privilege of not dealing with racism int heir lives would say.  Maybe even white privilege.