10-02-2016, 05:45 PM
(10-02-2016, 10:26 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Wrong.
Racism is only a privilege for the majority that benefit from it. I agree that minorities can be just as racists as white people but they do not control the power and wealth in this country so their racism does not create a privilege for them.
And people who cry "I have never benefited from white privilege" probably have. They have no way of knowing if they would have been stopped by the police at some time or passed over for a job they got if they had been a minority instead of a white person.
Many scientific studies prove it happens, so none of you can definitely say "I have never benefited".
Not wrong. If you want to say its "privilege" when whites benefit, then you have to say its privilege when minorities benefit. When minorities benefit from reverse discrimination then that is their "privilege". There are substantial numbers of rich minorities, so therefore, they have "benefited". Or do you contend that when a minority makes it and is wealthy it is from hard work, and when a white person does it it is from "privilege"? Again, the whole thing is simply another name for racism....and racism doesn't need another name.
