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Are you getting a bit fed up with our current style of ad hominem argumentation, in which in any discussion implicating issues of identity politics — and with all the metastasizing identities out there to choose amongst, virtually every discussion somehow manages to stray into that much-contested domain these days — a person “of color” will inevitably play the “white privilege” or “white fragility” card to compensate for the fact that they have never been taught the delicate art of respectfully taking issue with the actual merits of a position with which they disagree? If so, you have a choice:
1 posted on 04/15/2018 9:25:42 AM PDT by Az Joe
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To: Az Joe

When I was in college I marched with Dr.Martin Luther King and I recall he was later quoted about the content of character rather than the color of a person’s skin.

I am much older now so my agreement with his statement now appears to mark me as outdated among young people. Sad.


2 posted on 04/15/2018 9:31:51 AM PDT by frank ballenger
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To: Az Joe

The world today was created by whites, everything in it was thought of by whites, and the culture is white and they simply can’t stand it.

What have blacks/browns contributed to any of it? Nothing except crime, poverty, and corruption. Everywhere they have settled with any significant population turns into a shi*hole within a few years.


3 posted on 04/15/2018 9:32:34 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Az Joe

It’s a man’s world, no doubt about it, and I revel in my male privilege!


5 posted on 04/15/2018 9:37:26 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Az Joe

An excellent contrast.

The Alinsky types who invented “white privilege” are pushing the concept of “black entitlement.”


6 posted on 04/15/2018 9:37:56 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Az Joe

Yup, white privilege. Calculus, relativity, quantum physics, medicine, drugs, philosophy, engineering, and on and on.

That sort of crap comes from folks who couldn’t even pass the first level course in those subjects.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of non-white folks who very successful in these areas. I work with and am privileged to know these people.

However one can rest assured that none of the types who use the term “white privilege” are in that group.

Those types go under “dumbasses”.


9 posted on 04/15/2018 9:39:14 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Az Joe

Who’s entitling the black? Are the blacks doing it themselves or are the whites entitling them?


17 posted on 04/15/2018 9:58:22 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Az Joe

Yes to #40, I’m sick of it. You can guarantee every time you hear on TV, “We need to have a conversation about XYZ...” that it’s a SJW/BLM type essentially telling you to shut up and that you don’t have a right to your own opinion. They can shove their “dialog” and “conversation” fascist preaching techniques.


18 posted on 04/15/2018 10:01:39 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Az Joe

Very good article.


20 posted on 04/15/2018 10:08:23 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Trump is all that stands between America and left wing totalitarianism)
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To: Az Joe

White privilege got Obama elected twice guess the left hates them for it OH wait not a word was said about white privilege.
The 2 faces of the left at work par.


21 posted on 04/15/2018 10:09:08 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Az Joe

“There needs to be major pushback, all the time on this notion of so-called “White Privilege”. It is an attempt to scapegoat one race and poisons the minds of all Americans, especially the young. There are NO oppressed people in America except the self-oppressed!”

Absolutely agree!


24 posted on 04/15/2018 10:12:58 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Az Joe

Flip side? I don’t receive or see any so called White privilege but I sure see special privilege applied to Blacks and Browns for college admission, for jobs they are unqualified for over Whites that are, for government benefits over Whites. There is no such thing as White privilege, being White has been a stumbling block for decades and God help you if you are a White Heterosexual Christian Conservative!


28 posted on 04/15/2018 10:25:41 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Az Joe

I really liked the article, thought it was thoughtful, especially the analysis after the list. He wrote the list as a counter weight to the white privilege list created by some professor in the 80s. He notes that both lists are stereotypical and make caricatures of people, but then whole ideologies are constructed based on these caricatures. Well done. He’ll probably get roasted.


33 posted on 04/15/2018 10:32:02 AM PDT by ichabod1 (If there is to be war, let it begin here.)
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To: Az Joe
Cal it what it is - the new Jim Crow.

Whites to the back of the line, back of the bus, whites not allowed.

I look forward to White Power. The White Congressional Caucus. The Caucasian College Fund. Safe spaces for whites. Re-Affirmative (merit based) Action. And my favorite - WET: White Entertainment Network.

35 posted on 04/15/2018 10:38:03 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: Az Joe

How many social justice warriors didn’t even bother reading through the entire article before firing off a missive about what a racist the author is? His point is that the concepts behind black entitlement is as cartoonish and unfounded as white privilege. Of course, that is a thoughtcrime today’s PC culture.


38 posted on 04/15/2018 11:04:08 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Az Joe

While they are within their rights to claim and believe that “Black is Beautiful”, they’re not entitled to have the historical facts of their societal shortcomings redacted.


43 posted on 04/15/2018 12:13:29 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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