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The Falsehood of White Privilege
townhall.com ^ | 12/31/2022 | Alan Joseph Bauer

Posted on 12/31/2022 8:00:18 AM PST by rktman

During the past few years, the concept of “white privilege” has taken hold of the Democratic Party and those on the Left. The idea is that all White people have enjoyed and still enjoy privileges and advantages by virtue of their being white, and this state of affairs leaves “people of color” at a structural disadvantage in almost all human endeavors—bringing up a family, getting into college, succeeding in work or business, buying a home and more. The concept of white privilege is used as a cudgel against the Left’s opponents, not to help Black people or others but rather to concentrate power in the hands of politicians, college administrators, woke corporate professionals, entertainers and the like. White privilege is a falsehood in more ways than one.

At the most basic level, the United States has such a mixed and diverse population that there is unfortunately no shortage of poor Whites, whether in Appalachia or in towns where the jobs moved out and fentanyl moved in. Additionally, there are many “people of color” who are wealthy or super-wealthy. Who has privilege—a millionaire Black businessman who grew up in a middle class family or a poor White man whose family has been barely getting by in coal country for generations? Beyond the fact that there are many Americans who do not fit into the patently false narrative of specifically white privilege, the concept itself is based on a falsehood antithetical to the “American Way.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: lyingliars; whiteprivilege
First and foremost, Happy New Year to FReepers! Now, using my WP to provide this piece, the author calls it right. IMHO. One phrase that irritates the crap out of me is the "Walk a mile in my shoes!" How about they walk a mile in MY shoes. The assumption that things were 'given' to someone because they have achieved things is, for the most part wrong! Anyway, safe and prosperous New Year.
1 posted on 12/31/2022 8:00:18 AM PST by rktman
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So those White People who claim this are just repeating what they have been told to say. They do not have a clue about real life. So sad. Like the White BLM protestors, they were mostly White Privileged kids who were bored during COVID, and decided to “WhiteSplain” to Blacks what they should feel and how they should react. In other words, they were trying to control Blacks and “enslave them” into a way of thinking.


2 posted on 12/31/2022 8:05:31 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: rktman
If whites do have a privilege, it's because we've earned it. We should be demanding a royalty for the use of our culture and technology.

https://www.unz.com/freed/are-white-men-gods-ii/

3 posted on 12/31/2022 8:09:25 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: rktman

Joseph Sobran explained it this way: “The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation. The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it. And superiority excites envy.
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.” The true “white supremacists” are the millions of nonwhites laying siege to our borders, desperate to come live in the superior society created and built by whites.


4 posted on 12/31/2022 8:15:55 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: realcleanguy

Sorta like joementia threatening (he being in a power position) cornpop with a 6 foot piece of chain. And no one blinked at that. It’s what the democommies do. Keep ‘em down with false promises. Been workin’ for a long time.


5 posted on 12/31/2022 8:29:35 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

White privilege was created by liberal white elitists as a tool


6 posted on 12/31/2022 8:29:39 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Blurb2350; All

Yes, the eventually goal is to ‘kill whitey’ to the greatest extent possible to be followed by forcing whitey onto reservations. That doesn’t go for the bankster-edumacationist-culteratti-glitterrati(think Aly Magraw before the Steve McQueen interlude)-shyster-gubermentist wokesters who will supervise the ‘new multicultural woke America undergoing fundamental transformation’. If you are white, straight, Christian and non-woke you are the new Jews for the new Woke Reich of Globo-Homo.


7 posted on 12/31/2022 8:55:32 AM PST by robowombat ( )
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Whites have been kissing black butt for 50 years and all we got out of it is that we’re told we’re all racists.


8 posted on 12/31/2022 8:56:11 AM PST by 1956tbyrd
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To: rktman

Anyone born in the USA has country privilege!


9 posted on 12/31/2022 8:57:07 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
If whites do have a privilege, it's because we've earned it.

Damn' right.

10 posted on 12/31/2022 9:01:26 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 12/31/2022 9:47:35 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: rktman
"The source of white (and Asian) privilege... the bell curve.


12 posted on 12/31/2022 10:09:14 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: rktman

Every day, about 90% of crimes aired on TV show “people of color” committing them yet all the Biden DOJ is interested in is “White Supremacist Terrorist”. The Lame Street Media goes along with them and doesn’t air most of the crimes.


13 posted on 12/31/2022 10:12:40 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: rktman
Terrible article using anecdotes. Their are people in poverty all over the country. Certain races have a higher percentage however.
14 posted on 12/31/2022 10:56:58 AM PST by consult
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"White males accounted for 69.68% of (American) suicide deaths in 2020."

https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/

15 posted on 12/31/2022 1:35:35 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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16 posted on 12/31/2022 1:39:27 PM PST by Iron Munro (Do Not Mention Michael Byrd And Ashli Babbitt In The Same Sentence)
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To: rktman

One thing liberals are pushing in colleges is resegregation of Black and White students. One thing that would become clear is we all have a lot more in common than we think.

A Black from Africa and a Black from Harlem have little in common and skin is not a bond. Making sure that there are Black studies and Black dorms and Black extra curricular that excludes Whites is the course they are pushing right now.

Telling Whites that they are racist even though they don’t know that they are racist and no possible proof of racism need exist just the accusations.


17 posted on 12/31/2022 7:06:58 PM PST by DazedVet (Self esteem cannot be taught in school but comes from actual achievement.)
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My so-called ‘White Privilege is an early grave from working hard and having one third to a half of my income stolen by the government in taxes and ‘fees’ of one kind or another to support lazy bums that hate me.


18 posted on 12/31/2022 10:01:15 PM PST by rxh4n1
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