01-04-2019, 12:13 PM
(01-04-2019, 10:11 AM)GMDino Wrote: Sure money and power and birthright can give anyone "privilege".
But that privilege then extends to those like them.
Poor whites in America's south believed they are/were above poor blacks because whites are better than blacks because "what black country every produced anything."
And in other countries it might be other races, but very few countries have a less homogenous citizenry than the US does.
But the beauty of the privilege is that even if you can't blame another race you can blame another religion...or any "difference" that will get the rabble, who think that they too are superior by virtue being like those in power, to care more about the mexican/Catholic/black/Muslim being the reason for their problems than the people in power.
We all agree there is privilege embedded in certain group within this country (and others). We just disagree on why that matters and what it means for the rest of the people in this country.
My point is that privilege is a horseshit concept. Its simply dressing up racism and calling it something else making it seem to those already affected by racism like there are more things lined up to work against them. Every racial group has racists among them. Whites are the majority in this country, and by extension of that fact would have more people among them to be racist in their outlook. So let's just call racism racism, and fight against it, wherever it exists, together.
Fred and I will not likely come to any agreement about this. We are actually both on the same page against racism, but we don't see things the same way in terms of the benefit to society of an additional concept labeled privilege. I also realize I need to stop now because we have hijacked this thread about scapegoating when there is already a thread discussing the privilege concept.
