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'White privilege' is real and it matters
Oregon Live ^ | November 29, 2014 | Cathy Busha

Posted on 11/29/2014 9:18:34 PM PST by Bettyprob

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To: Bettyprob
What a big pantload. She's trying to make out like she's little miss normal housewife all welled up with guilt over being white. This is from her LinkedIn page:

Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement at Lewis & Clark College

Go take a look at her pictures, twits, tweets and images on google. She's anything but a 'housewife' - unless that now maybe includes lesbians.

41 posted on 11/30/2014 1:23:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Bettyprob

Caste and class and color can’t be whined away by the left or communists or moslems or buddhists. Only the peace of Christ can change the world.


42 posted on 11/30/2014 2:49:45 AM PST by x_plus_one
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To: Gaffer
Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement

Sounds to me like she's paid to discriminate based on skin color, by definition. If not, how could she possibly know to "include," or "engage"?

43 posted on 11/30/2014 3:01:29 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Bettyprob

I’m white, the only priveleges I ever see are for minorities and illegals. Guess what lady, I’ve been overlooked many times for someone more qualified.

(I’m sure she would somehow construe that statement as racist.)


44 posted on 11/30/2014 3:07:26 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Of course she is. She is paid to perpetuate the fantasy that ‘diversity’ enriches everything when all it ends up doing is diluting excellence and lowering standards for everyone.


45 posted on 11/30/2014 3:11:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Bettyprob
Unless and until those who fail accept the responsibility for their failures and do something constructive to remediate those problems and become successful, they will fail.

In the meantime, tearing down all about you does not make you any taller.

Enabling those who seek to hide from their personal failures by blaming others for those failures is an even lower behavioral form.

46 posted on 11/30/2014 3:12:49 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: sunrise_sunset
Again, almost every American lives better than 95% of the planet. No mention of that privileges.

Stuffing the world's fattest 'poor people' since 1965...

47 posted on 11/30/2014 3:15:34 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: stylin19a
Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement

How did that ever get to be a job?

Really...

48 posted on 11/30/2014 3:16:53 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

“Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement
How did that ever get to be a job?”

Without the billions of dollars spent by the US Department of Education and other government agencies to support grants, research projects, and direct subsidies to colleges, research groups, and think tanks these jobs would not exist. Cut off the federal money spigot from the federal government and these jobs will be gone in 2-3 years.

This is what happens when you establish a budgeting process at the federal level creating a manipulated “baseline” automatically growing 7-8% per year and giving the executive branch huge discretionary spending authority. The first act the new Congress needs to do is redefine the “baseline” as the previous year’s budget, not the previous year plus a huge inflation factor. Redefining baseline to a true baseline will put an end to the semantic game played out in the media where a reduction in the growth of spending is defined as a draconian cut, not what it is.

The second thing Congress needs to do is reduce the size of the bureaucracy and its discretionary spending authority. Over the past 40 years corporate American has gone through waves of white collar downsizing. As a result administrative functions are more efficient than in the days of huge, multilayered bureaucracies. An immediate 10% across the board cut in the bureaucracy would initially elicit howls from the liberal press and constituency groups but within six months would be a non event.

The third thing is to eliminate the omnibus multiple department spending bills. Return to the process of reviewing each department’s spending and sending individual appropriation bills by department to the President for his signature or veto. If he vetoes the bill for the department, he is effectively eliminating it. Any spending the President wants that isn’t in the spending bills he can request in supplemental appropriation which should be debated in Congress and voted up or down.

Reinstate a rigorous budget and spending review process and the money for the community organizers will dry up. The woman in the article’s salary likely doesn’t appear in the federal budget as a line item but her position is only possible because the college is receiving millions of dollars in federal research grants and other subsidies. Take those away and the college will have to redefine its priorities and slash its own bureaucracy. If it is true to its mission academic teaching positions will be preserved and the multiple paper pushing activist “Director” jobs that have mushroomed on college campuses over the past 50 years will disappear. Who knows, universities might return to the days when tenured professors carried a full teaching load and academic deans were professors first and administrators second.

Does the Republican Congress have the backbone and desire to dial back the state with thousands of line item cuts to the federal budget? If not the parasite will continue to grow until it completely devours the private sector and collapses. At that point in time, diversity directors at colleges may quickly find they don’t have the life skills to survive.


49 posted on 11/30/2014 4:01:47 AM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Bettyprob
I never noticed any advantage in being a woman. One outfit told me they hired a guy with more experience for a job--he had all of 6 weeks post school experience!

One interviewer asked me why I was looking for a job. Wasn't being married my job? (Yes, they could do that legally.)

Fortunately, I never became one of those whiney women who droned on about The Injustice of It All. I just did my work as best as I could. For some employers, that didn't matter--they treated everyone like dirt; others noticed.
50 posted on 11/30/2014 4:13:14 AM PST by Nepeta
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To: Bettyprob

Shut the f*ck up Cathy, cee u next tuesday.


51 posted on 11/30/2014 4:44:56 AM PST by Catholic Canadian
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To: Bettyprob

And the part of the city (Rochester, NY) that I started life in was mixed and became predominantly Black before we moved. In the ‘50s, the Black community had solid families and a work ethic that had many buying their own homes and fixing them up and maintaining them. Then came the ‘60s and Johnson’s’ great societal plan to re-subjugate them and “keep them niggers voting Democrat for the next 100 years”. It “revitalized” slums, caused race riots because the Blacks were told how bad they had it and how it was all Whitey’s fault (at least the non-Dim Whitey) and how they needed to become an agitated and violent group if they were to get any sort of “justice”. Too many bit and threw away the opportunity to live the American Dream - and they stole it from the Middle Class of all races as they trashed it for themselves.


52 posted on 11/30/2014 4:57:27 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: John Valentine
Even if there is such a thing as “white privilege” it is something so ephemeral and diffuse that no one can actually put their finger on it or actually do anything about it. It’s a will o’the wisp. In truth, “white privilege” seems like little more than liberal angst. Life is so unfair! Oh poor me. Yes, life is unfair. So what? Grow up. Get over it.

Is that copyrighted, or may I print it out and hang it over my mantle?

Regards,

53 posted on 11/30/2014 5:01:47 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Barrista: “Welcome to Starbucks! Can I help you?”
Me: “Hello, can I please have a nice cup of coffee?”
Barrista: “Sure! What size?”
Me: “Vente, please.”
Barrista: “Ok, here you go! Anything else sir?”
Me: “Yes, I’d like my White Privilege discount.”


54 posted on 11/30/2014 5:19:29 AM PST by Ueriah
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To: Bettyprob

No it’s not and no it doesn’t.

Black privilege, on the other hand, is very real and clearly demonstrable.


55 posted on 11/30/2014 6:29:38 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Bettyprob
rural Pennsylvania

Buy a clue, Kurt. Racist blacks don't want to live in rural Pennsylvania. Racist Kurt didn't apply to teach in Harlem or Chicago.

Did you know it was illegal for African-Americans to live in Oregon until 1927?

Hey, Cathy, did you know black Africans sold black Africans into slavery? Did you also know that every black American is free to give up his US citizenship and go back to Africa? And, Cathy, you're welcome to do the same.

56 posted on 11/30/2014 7:06:09 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Bettyprob

White privilege= rubbish.


57 posted on 11/30/2014 7:14:32 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: chajin

This whitey was hired into a job with the state but at the last minute some moron at HQ decided there were no blacks so I lost that job to some imaginary employee. The position remained posted for years without one black ever applying. Gee, can’t be that it’s in a rural area, probably much like Kurt’s rural Pennsylvania, where very few blacks want to live. Sounds more like black privilege to me.

Another time, I was told by the local US Post Master that despite having the best test score, he would never hire a woman to do a man’s job. So much for female privilege, too.


58 posted on 11/30/2014 7:23:43 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Bettyprob

So how many blacks reside in rural Pennsylvania? If there aren’t any you would therefore not see any blacks during your job interview. So would that be imaginary white guilt er privilege?


59 posted on 11/30/2014 7:50:02 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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"White privilege" could more accurately be termed "white competence and long term planning ability".

it's the very foundation for our advanced society.

60 posted on 11/30/2014 7:57:48 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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