Posted on 12/17/2015 7:57:00 AM PST by SZonian
Amen to that.
How can any white male, who has been discriminated against his whole life due to AA, been ridiculed in TV’s , movies and commercials possibly feel privileged? Moreover the white male has been socially stigmatized as either rich dude or a supremacist and as such feel privileged? Most white males are tax paying citizens, retired or in jail. Those are the only two possibilities.
I take it you don’t like garbanzo beans either? ;^)
I thought that your interpretation was correct.
:)
I, and my six siblings, didn't have anything like that. We started out poor with no preferences and no expectations from our parents. How were we more privileged than those rich black kids?
That simple truth is all Americans are privileged. But some take advantage of the opportunities afforded them, and some waste their opportunities.
There was no context supplied for what I was saying unless you went back and read the original comment from the other Freeper.
I still think my interpretation is correct, but I am open to hearing other explanations.
After visiting numerous black blogs and reading the comments by the bloggers and the (mostly black) people commenting on their columns, I doubt more than a few blacks understand the opportunities afforded them in America compared to the rest of the world.
It is like many of them think it's still 1860 and they're still slaves. Or it's 1955 and America is still segregated. I can't escape the feeling that many of them feel only Big Government helps people rise. They don't understand individual effort and responsibility.
I don’t know what BFAC meant by her post, which is why I didn’t respond to her. I was simply waiting to see how she responded, and posted to you in the interim.
More importantly: NOBODY CARES....
The fact is NO ONE really cares about racism, it has simply become a tool used by people who don’t want to accept their shortcomings and to use against “whitey” in an effort to control .
Persistent personal hardship clearly indicates a lack of privilege. I tried of Leftist racial oppression. Whites just need to admit that whites are legally oppressed in this day and age.
Anyone claiming “white privilege” is a low IQ idiot.
Legally minorities are one class and whites another and when there are more minorities than whites, whites will be a legally oppressed minority. Think about that one.
In the New Religion of Progressivism, Whiteness is Original Sin. You are born guilty. You have to pay tithes and indulgences in order to be forgiven. And even then your forgiveness is temporary. You have to keep paying and keep paying. It’s actually like dhimmitude. No wonder liberals defend Islam. It’s a system they recognize and understand.
Whites are legally oppressed. It’s a fact. And when the minority class outnumbers whites, then whites will be a legally oppressed minority.
“Black people are quick to blame white people instead of acknowledging failures in the black community, according to a new study”
I can play that game.
So I just can’t win. In other words...
“Have you stopped beating your wife?”
I’d like to see this question using similarly awful wording.
Really, minorities belong to the same legal class. Whites themselves have become an oppressed legal class. I’m just trying to spread the word because I’m convinced of it.
When I see the term “white privilege” I think “white competency” and things make more sense. There’s a lot of envy.
A tongue-in-cheek commentary on the issue, via a list:
Are White Men Gods?
http://happyacres.tumblr.com/post/122595142549/are-white-men-gods
Nice to see that a "newspaper" isn't reporting this in any sort of a biased way.
Here we go again, where something being reported as "news" has a political agenda where the so called "news" is nothing more than a pronouncement of the agenda.
Mark
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