Immigrants as scapegoats

[GMDino]

(01-04-2019, 12:13 PM)Beaker Wrote: 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.

When it gets down to the very base of it I can agree that it is rooted in racism.  I just feel that using the word privilege puts more of a fine point on how it become part of how society operates in that racism can be as simple as the words used to describe someone and privilege are the action used to keep others down.