The Fallacy of White Privilege

[fredtoast]

(11-19-2016, 02:09 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I can give you a list of all the times people have said racist things to me or that I've overheard and nothing happened to those people. There's also similar stories from friends of mine. I have a black coworker that has said some racist stuff about white people publicly and he's still my coworker. Stephen A. Smith oftentimes says some racist things and last I heard, he's still employed.

Consider this: a black person goes into a room full of white people and says all crackers are evil. A white person goes into a room full of black people and says all niggers are evil. Are the responses going to be the same? If you're answer is anything other than 'No' then I know you're full of shit.


How about the time I went into a convenient store in NYC and a black guy in there was ranting about how he wished all white people were dead and then he saw me, stopped what he was saying and then, started yelling at me to stop looking at him and how I owed him reparations and that he was going to enslave me and some other nonsense? As I was leaving, absolutely NO ONE said a thing to him (and I wasn't even the only white person in the store). Or the time I was in Hartford and as I was entering a building, a group of black guys called me all sorts of names - including racist ones - simply because I dared to look in their direction? Nothing happened to them.

In my experience, I've seen far more racist black people say some nasty shit and most of them faced absolutely ZERO negative consequences.

And I have seen many instances of white people calling black people racial slurs when NOTHING happened.  no fight.  NO arrest.  No nothing.  It happens all the time.

You just live in an imaginary world where every white person who uses a racial slur gets arrested or beaten up.

And let me ask you this.  Are you claiming that you have never heard any white people use racial slurs when describing minorities?  Are you claiming that never happens or are you claiming that every time it happens the white person gets arrested or beaten up?