Posted on 05/02/2016 12:03:58 PM PDT by VaRepublican
Of course, this isn’t fair. I’m asking you to do the impossible. I’m asking you to prove, somehow, that a generic white straight male will always have an ‘easier’ life than a generic woman, or homosexual, or minority. It can’t be done. We can’t quantify, tabulate and measure our suffering, and then stack it up against the suffering of others to figure out who is the most victimized victim of all.
There are too many dimensions, too many factors, too many unknowns. You can’t possibly fathom another person’s struggle, nor can they fathom yours. Even if they do appear to have external advantages, earned or unearned, male or female, white or black, still you can’t confidently assess their hardships.
Read more at http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/07/09/ill-check-privilege-check-assumptions/2/#ohTFRCY2KOwlHq5Z.99
But this is my point. I have hauled hay, worst job ever, worked at a grain elevator, plowed fields, put up miles of fence, served in military and numerous jobs since. the only privilege I had was a willingness to work. Sorry I do not think this article is drivel.
Did you read the article?
The federal laws/judicial decrees were already passed before 2000. We have been at war since LBJ and even before that.
And so what if they would have a tougher time?
Let’s throw out logic for the sake of argument and ask;
“OK, so they’d have a tougher time. So what?
How does this tape play out in the end??”
Read the damn article.
:P
whenever a white male helps someone, anyone, the only one who will thank him without rationalizing that the aid comes from some guilt or perceived privilege, is another white male.
Thanks dude.......
I was reacting to the person referred to in post 3 who bought into ‘white privilege’ despise ample evidence of hard work being the reason for the posters success.
I should have been clearer. The drivel I referred to was attitudes like the female written about in post 3.
My apologies.
Well I’m sorry for inferring. to conservative warrior, I almost don’t care anymore that someone else would have had a harder time. NOTHING was handed to me. In fact I almost don’t have the job I have now due to “considerations”.
Who after the divorce, the dad did nothing to keep in contact the son.
And yet I still worked my way through school and became more career wise than my parents.
I looked at a number of my friends who had both parents around. To teach them and help them along.
I'm one of those kids who DIDN'T have what a lot of others had.
So what. They worked for their lives. It wasn't THEIR FAULT for my family situation. They didn't OWE me nothing.
They didn't OWE me. And I don't OWE anybody.
So what yer saying is yer an african american from syria who had no shot....
you’re welcome.
well done young man. well done.
now pass it on to your children
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