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Showing Original Post only (View all)White privilege is knowing that even if the Boston Marathon bomber turns out [View all]
White privilege is knowing that even if the Boston Marathon bomber turns out to be white, his or her identity will not result in white folks generally being singled out for suspicion by law enforcement, or the TSA, or the FBI.White privilege is knowing that even if the bomber turns out to be white, no one will call for whites to be profiled as terrorists as a result, subjected to special screening, or threatened with deportation.
White privilege is knowing that if the bomber turns out to be white, he or she will be viewed as an exception to an otherwise non-white rule, an aberration, an anomaly, and that he or she will be able to join the ranks of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols and Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph and Joe Stack and George Metesky and Byron De La Beckwith and Bobby Frank Cherry and Thomas Blanton and Herman Frank Cash and Robert Chambliss and James von Brunn and Robert Mathews and David_Lane and Michael F. Griffin and Paul Hill and John Salvi and James Kopp and Luke Helder and James David Adkisson and Scott Roeder and Shelley Shannon and Wade Michael Page and Byron Williams and Kevin Harpham and William Krar and Judith Bruey and Edward Feltus and Raymond Kirk Dillard and Adam Lynn Cunningham and Bonnell Hughes and Randall Garrett Cole and James Ray McElroy and Michael Gorbey and Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman and Frederick Thomas and Paul Ross Evans and Matt Goldsby and Jimmy Simmons and Kathy Simmons and Kaye Wiggins and Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe and David McMenemy and Bobby Joe Rogers and Francis Grady and Demetrius Van Crocker and Floyd Raymond Looker, among the pantheon of white people who engage in politically motivated violence meant to terrorize and kill, but whose actions result in the assumption of absolutely nothing about white people generally, or white Christians in particular.
And white privilege is being able to know nothing about the crimes committed by most of the terrorists listed above indeed, never to have so much as heard most of their names let alone to make assumptions about the role that their racial or ethnic identity may have played in their crimes.
White privilege is knowing that if the Boston bomber turns out to be white, we will not be asked to denounce him or her, so as to prove our own loyalties to the common national good. It is knowing that the next time a cop sees one of us standing on the sidewalk cheering on runners in a marathon, that cop will say exactly nothing to us as a result.
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morningfog
Apr 2013
OP
well until stats are any where close to even regarding violent acts, that is how it's going to be
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#67
too bad their sons could't stop at bullying and just abuse verbally instead of murder many people!
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#81
I'm sorry it bothers you to accept it's 95% men doing these violent things.
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#115
I have read 1/2 of them, thanks, If you don't see how fucked up it is to blame Mom
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#119
lobotomy patient's dad: is impatient, explosive, rather brutal, won’t let the boy speak for himself,
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#105
Read the whole book. Dad was largely absent, and completely passive when it came to Stepmom..
Mopar151
Apr 2013
#110
which of these serial killers had good, close relationships with their Dads?
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#111
The only group who will be hurt by this (if it turns out to be them)
UnrepentantLiberal
Apr 2013
#13
+ 1000 - white privilege means not even having to concern oneself for one single nano second that
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2013
#23
I still remember after 9/11 when folks called for middle easterners to be profiled
Cali_Democrat
Apr 2013
#27
after the OKCity Bombing and the Texas Bell Tower shootings & Columbine, there was reason for that
Supersedeas
Apr 2013
#63
AMEN from a white southern male with plenty of black northern female relatives
carolinayellowdog
Apr 2013
#30
Yep, and Gang Lu, who was the shooter at the University of Iowa Physics building murders...
cascadiance
Apr 2013
#33
If it turns out to be Muslim, then Alex Jones will be flaming about an Obama coverup...
cascadiance
Apr 2013
#32
Elvis Impersonator privilege is knowing that even if the guy who mails ricin to the President
NoPasaran
Apr 2013
#49
how can an otherwise seemingly sane DUer say something this outrageously awful?
carolinayellowdog
Apr 2013
#74
I used to think I knew which website had the most smears against "the Left"
carolinayellowdog
Apr 2013
#77
The person who zealously supported a white female candidate who used the term "hard working
Liberal_Stalwart71
Apr 2013
#107
Are you going to sit here and pretend that blacks and hispanics aren't already
TheKentuckian
Apr 2013
#91
no one plays "the race card" like those who invented the phrase, whites playing victim
carolinayellowdog
Apr 2013
#73
Yes, they are. Profiling is done by experts, regardless of who suspects likely are.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#94
All profiling by experts is...is a collection of facts of the types of people who have
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#112