08-09-2018, 06:47 PM
(08-09-2018, 06:39 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Calling it white privilege only does the former and excuses the latter. You want to be concerned with why the police are being racist, then stop blaming the white people "benefitting" from the police's racism. And, yes, blaming "white privilege" IS blaming those benefitting while excusing the racist because now the focus is not on the racist. Now, we're talking about whether or not there is white privilege instead of going, "That cop is racist. We need to change that."
This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON who talks about "white privilege" talks about the racists cause. Please give me a link to one article about "white privilege" that doe not directly address the racism underlying "white privilege".
The only white people who get "blamed" for anything are the white people who claim there is not such thing as white privilege. And the reason they get blamed is because the only way to deny the existence of "white privilege" is to deny the effects of racism in our society.
You can't address an issue when you deny that it exists.
