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White privilege: An insidious virus that’s eating America from within
Salon ^ | August 23, 2014 | Andrew O'Hehir

Posted on 08/23/2014 2:10:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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“An entire right-wing ideological empire remains devoted to convincing white people that benefit-sucking African-Americans and job-stealing Latino immigrants are somehow to blame for their downward trajectory”

Wasn't there a survey or study that showed all job gains since 2000 went to immigrants, legal AND illegal, thereby depressing wages?? White liberals believe they gain favor with radicalized blacks by claiming white privilege exists. The problem is radicalized blacks don't respect them.

121 posted on 08/23/2014 3:47:31 PM PDT by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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To: Mears; Understand the stimulus
I only know about this case because it was mentioned on FR.

See the thread "An Innocent White Man in Utah, the Press was Silent" (thread #3196136), posted Friday, Aug. 22, at 11:15:13 p.m. by Understand the stimulus

There may have been some earlier mentions of it on FR as well.

122 posted on 08/23/2014 3:49:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Notice how the meme of Civil Rights is now morphing into an attack on White Privilege and consider the ramifications. The Civil Rights Movement in post-war America was a movement against a quantifiable wrong, denial of equal rights based on minority or historical animus. Since this denial was factual and frequently embedded in the legal systems, it was referred to as "De Jure" (based in law) and as such was something beyond feelings or opinions.

I sincerely doubt that there is any De Jure discrimination going on in the US today and if you asked the Civil Rights marchers of the 1960s about this achievement, I'm sure they'd be amazed and overjoyed! However, as is normal in the pattern of human societies, further goals appear when the old ones are accomplished. De Facto discrimination is a far slippier beast, ranging from explicit behavior and treatment to perception and feelings at the other end of the scale. We now have multiple government agencies, local to Federal, who have the ability to determine AND PUNISH behavior that they determine to fall in this area.

Yet, the goal, that never ending goal of complete equality of feelings, the complete absence of ever feeling offended, has not yet been reached. Now guilt (and reparations?) must be levied against the color of ones skin. Being white is to be considered as taking part in a formless miasma of too much privilege and must be guarded against by (what?) The problem with this attack is that there is no solution other than to get a terminal sun-tan? It is a feeling by others that no individual can assuage ... so my response is "STUFF IT!"

123 posted on 08/23/2014 3:50:30 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who ya gonna git to pay da free chit? Y’all stupit! Tazez is fa white chumps. No whit chumps no free chit!!!


124 posted on 08/23/2014 3:52:05 PM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“An entire right-wing ideological empire remains devoted to convincing white people that benefit-sucking African-Americans and job-stealing Latino immigrants are somehow to blame for their downward trajectory”

And you totally ignore or even encourage cultural destruction. The eradication of the West through massive immigration legal or otherwise. You can jump down that rabbit hole all you want but I ain't going with you.

125 posted on 08/23/2014 3:54:41 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just more ivory tower thinking nonsense. Liberals are responsible for so much damage they have done to this country, they just need to be ridiculed, then shunned.

CGato


126 posted on 08/23/2014 3:58:13 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Beneath the fog of words is this poisonous thesis: it is moral to use force to take things away from white people.


127 posted on 08/23/2014 4:01:41 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want to be the boot stomping on a liberal face forever. Thank you, Orwell, for that inspiration.


128 posted on 08/23/2014 4:03:21 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: cripplecreek
A Muslim is the last SOB that needs to talk about slaves because his ancestors sold them to us. In fact Islamic armies swept across the know world and enslaved people they conquered and they are still doing it today. As far as slavery is concerned I would pay reparations to the people who were actually slaves. But I am not paying squat to their ancestors half a million white men died in a war and freed the slaves as far as I am concerned the debt is paid. If blacks have been kept down then why are there so wealthy many black athletes, actors, musicians, lawyers, doctors and politicians in this country and some of them don't even appreciate living in a country that gave them that chance to become successful and wealthy. The blacks who are complaining and get up pull up your pants and get to work.
129 posted on 08/23/2014 4:04:09 PM PDT by Americanexpat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Young black men: 3% of the population. 50% of the murders.


130 posted on 08/23/2014 4:07:37 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Graybeard58

IIRC St. Paul didn’t think it was right to put yer pee pee in da poo poo.

I think he gets to it pretty early in his little note to the Romans.


131 posted on 08/23/2014 4:08:47 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I agree. The privileged anointed (such as publish in Salon) are a cancer eating America from within.

Incidentally, regarding your photo of the cute blonde with agitprop scrawled all over her face -- the 'privilege' there is that she's a young, attractive woman, not that she's white.

(Upon starting to sag, show wrinkles, or put on significant weight, all of the doors that open magically for this woman, tend to stop doing so. And then she will actually be *surprised*. White men of her age have to compete with others for all of their position: UNLESS they are leftist trust-fund babies and the like; in which case such privilege is only their due for having attended the *proper* left-wing university.)

Cheers!

132 posted on 08/23/2014 4:10:37 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; wardaddy

After a few graphs I quit reading. How much guilt-ridden metrosexual wimp does it take to make the point? Just jump off a building or hang yourself already. Hand out $100 bills in the ‘hood. Whatever.


133 posted on 08/23/2014 4:11:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stopped reading here: “white privilege does not mean that white people don’t get to express our views on controversial racial topics, or that we have to defer to whatever a person of color may say. It does mean, however, that we have a responsibility to be alert to advantages we may possess..”

Advantages like working hard, caring for our families and protecting our communities from the gimmedat thugs? How awful of us.

Incidentally, wimp, when your pet black pampers decide to start beating, raping and killing white folk, you will be among the first white idiots to suffer. BTW, don’t expect an armed squad to come and rescue your worthless butt. Your role now will be to act as a canary in the liberal coal mine who will alert us to lock ‘n load, set up barriers and take control of the high ground.

Bye-bye, wimp.


134 posted on 08/23/2014 4:12:32 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If he's going to quote Saint Paul (an attempt to subvert the believers, as the autofellatory atheist he resembles in that photograph would be likely to do)...

he ought to try Galatians 3:28 on for size:

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

Cheers!

135 posted on 08/23/2014 4:13:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gee, the agitprop article, and the young blonde woman with the agitprop-covered-face...

make me wonder if the author *really* agrees with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech --

is he judging the young white woman by the color of her skin, or by the content of her character?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Cheers!

136 posted on 08/23/2014 4:14:50 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If they can coin the racist phrase "white privilege," can I coin the phrase "black sloth?"

-PJ

137 posted on 08/23/2014 4:15:55 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: jsanders2001; everyone
Well my comment is for everyone here.

If you work, take care of those you love, don't loot burn riot or rape and rob.
You are on my good list.

If you also agree that we can all express our differences peacefully and respect my individual rights you go to the top of the good list.

Evil law breakers with a victim mentality and expect to have everything handed to you free, haters, try to take away my rights, and drains on the country in general you are not on that list.

If you have a real disability I understand, but your "my hamster is bipolar" is not a handicap.

But Whirlwind you ask "What if your daughter came home with (insert race here et al) what would you do.

I raised my kids correctly If she or he loved them and they were on the good list and worked hard, committed and were faithful and good parents I'd accept them even if they were green with yellow polka dots.

Of course they would have to survive the Dad interview and have enough guts to come back but hey that's how it's supposed to be.

I'm tired of the race crap. How about a IQ test to be approved to breed instead.

< /Rant >

138 posted on 08/23/2014 4:18:30 PM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (I do not advocate the use of violence. It works but I don't advocate it. YMMV Improvise.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How not to get your ass kicked by police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2QOjxF8Yg


139 posted on 08/23/2014 4:31:24 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One excuse after another why they can’t make it. Everything but looking at the man in THEIR mirror.


140 posted on 08/23/2014 4:31:37 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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