The Fallacy of White Privilege

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(11-20-2016, 10:24 PM)Beaker Wrote: If we use fred's definition of privilege as an advantage given based upon skin color alone, are you not aware of cases where a minority ethnicity will hire or play favorite to someone of their own ethnicity over other races? I was assuming you were referring to examples like affirmative action and/or quotas. I think it's also pretty well know that my types of examples exist independent of those. 

I don't use Fred's definition for anything because, in my experience, he does not make for a very good conversation. I agree that minorities have advantages because of affirmative action and admissions quotas and things of that nature. I think that those were enacted to try to level to playing field for groups of people that didn't have the networking infrastructure or strong community ties to the business world in the U.S. 

That has to do with the argument I was making as well. The only economic advantages to being a minority are ones that society specifically institutes because the white majority of the country has almost a 200 year head start on establishing a majority culture and business world based on their majority status alone. 

Other than policies specifically trying to make things reasonably fair for minorities though, there is no advantage for being a minority population in any situation. And I also believe there are probably some ways where we still haven't evened the playing field. I can't name any for you specifically, but it would make sense to me logically that there are some areas in life where it still is a negative experience to be a minority based solely on one's own minority status.