The Fallacy of White Privilege

[fredtoast]

(11-20-2016, 09:34 AM)Beaker Wrote: First, they already know that if someone gives you an advantage based solely on the color of your skin, that person is a racist. Second, you have said repeatedly that minorities cannot enjoy privilege because, being minorities, they will never hold the power that affords that privilege. How is that helpful to minorities? It's not. And if something is not helpful, then it certainly at least leans towards being hurtful. That is divisive and in no way motivational.

It is helpful to minorities the same way anyn information is helpful to any person.  Lying and hiding the truth never helped anyone.

I keep going back to the example of me telling my daughters that some people will have advantages over them.  I have seen that motivate my oldest daughter to work harder.  If I had hidden the truth from her I believe she might not be as prepared to deal with the reality when she had to face it.

The only people who claim the truth will hurt minorities are the people who think minorities are too lazy to work hard or are afraid of any challenge.