The Fallacy of White Privilege

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(11-16-2016, 05:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Where did you get this claim?  From Stormfront?  Because I don't know of anyone other than a white supremacists wants to glorify the Confederacy who would make such a claim. 

And thank you for proving my point. If you're white and want to be proud of your race, you're a white supremacist that wants to glorify the Confederacy.   

(11-16-2016, 05:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Colleges claim that a racially diverse student population leads to a more complete educational experience for ALL students.  To accomplish this they guarantee that there are BOTH white and black students and white students benefit from from the diversity.  Currently whites still comprise a large majority of college admissions equal to their representation in the general population.

Where exactly can a person get a job based "simply on the color of his skin"?  Nowhere.  This is another lie perpetuated by white supremacists.

Sooooooooooooo, there's no such thing as affirmative action programs? Huh. And here I thought they still existed. Well, it's good to know they no longer exist.

(11-16-2016, 05:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: What type of people cry about not being able to call black people niggers?   That's right, white supremacists.

Doesn't matter. The fact that blacks and hispanics can be racist to whites but whites can't be racist to them is a "privilege" that people of color share that whites do not.

(11-16-2016, 05:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Plus, black people who use racial slurs against other races are also subject to "negative consequences".  

Against other races but whites maybe, but not against whites.

(11-16-2016, 05:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: All of us white people benefit from the lack of racial profiling against white people by law enforcement.

False. I earlier linked to an article where a white person was the subject of racial profiling in a predominantly black neighborhood and she wasn't the only one.

(11-16-2016, 05:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Wrong.  You are not allowed to just make up your own definitions.  There are clearly privileges out there available to all white people. 

You claim I'm making up definitions but then go on to say that there ARE privileges that all white people enjoy. Pick an argument and stick to it.
First, a privilege is defined as "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people." So, if you defined said privilege as "white" privilege, than that "special right, advantage, or immunity" is granted to all whites. If not, then you are incorrectly labeling said privileges as belonging to whites. And, as I've already demonstrated, not all white people benefit from "white privilege". Ergo, ipso facto, e pluribus unum, there is no such thing as white privilege.

(11-16-2016, 05:49 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I'll let either you or Beaker explain how I am damaging black people by stating the truth.  I have never said that minorities can not advance in our society.  i have put no limits on what they can do.  I have not said that their abilities are not equal to white people.  all i have said is that white people have a privilege that they do not enjoy.  So how exactly does that "push them down and keep them from achieving anything their heart desires.
This is just another false argument straight from the white supremacists handbook with no logic or facts to back it up.

You are promoting a false narrative whose only purpose is to keep them down. By telling them that it's whitey's fault they can't get ahead and that whitey needs to "check his privilege", you're telling them they can't and don't need to do anything to overcome obstacles in their lives. This causes them to become stagnant get nowhere in life. If you want people to become successful, you don't tell them that their problems are the fault of someone else and that other people need to change. Which runner has the better chance of succeeding in a footrace: the one who spends all his time telling the other runners not to run so fast or the one who spends all his time training and bettering himself?
But, hey, if you want to keep calling me a racist and/or white supremacist, go right ahead. Apparently, that's the only weapon you've got in your arsenal because the facts just don't back you up.