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In reply to the discussion: Why I don't like the term "white privilege" [View all]malaise
(269,328 posts)31. I always love the part about African governments being corrupt
They could not be were the corporations and local business class not ten times more corrupt.
White privilege is real.
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i would say it's more due to numbers of drunk driving related traffic accidents in the area
JI7
Feb 2014
#12
bad analogy , if a chinese person was in an area they were testing for drunk drivers
JI7
Feb 2014
#22
This would be Chinese priviledge: A police officer witnesses driving that is consistent with
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#19
dlc has nothing to do with white privilege, the history of this country goes back hudreds of years
JI7
Feb 2014
#96
The NBA situation wouldn't necessarily be considered tall privilege because height is a factor in
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#27
I think that was their point, that that sort of racism was shocking and not ok.
uppityperson
Feb 2014
#74
What proportion of the US ruling class originally made their family fortunes directly or indirectly
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#104
You know the really sad truth is that there are lots of decent human beings in many of the
malaise
Feb 2014
#49
Thank you for sharing your experience and family history with us. It's very moving.
myrna minx
Feb 2014
#52
exactly, WHY do certain groups tendto have more than others, it ignores this question
JI7
Feb 2014
#23
your arguments are pretty much "how can there be global warming, it's cold and snowing"
JI7
Feb 2014
#26
You say that your family made its vast fortune in the gem trade in Africa. Out of curiosity,
Tanuki
Feb 2014
#34
Very fair question for 'something of a Marxist' wealthy from trading stones in Africa
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2014
#48
would a marxist excuse racism and use "they have more money" as justification for discrimination ?
JI7
Feb 2014
#98
you have excused it and made lame comparisons to tall basketball players, chinese who don't drink
JI7
Feb 2014
#102
*the term* "white privilege" doesn't destroy class consciousness, but *white privilege* does
fishwax
Feb 2014
#40
Of course it mattered. African Americans were systematically excluded from much of labor's gains
fishwax
Feb 2014
#135
Just because you do not like the term does not mean it does not exist.
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#44
Dishonest title, it is not that you dislike the term, it is that you deny the thing exists.
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2014
#53
White privilege is actually a very accurate description of the situation it describes.
Squinch
Feb 2014
#54
I actually have LESS privilege than whites as a well off black man. I STILL have to answer to the...
uponit7771
Feb 2014
#185
Here's the best personal example I can think of to sum up "white privilege".
Spider Jerusalem
Feb 2014
#59
"White privilege" is not a "sneaky" term. It quite openly states what it is saying.
Squinch
Feb 2014
#77
"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.”
Starry Messenger
Feb 2014
#191
LOL- the circular reasoning bit in order to deny reality. you have out the cart - "material
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#94
"Barack Obama, for example, did not come from the same social class as "traditional" African America
Number23
Feb 2014
#92
In the history of America when talking about white privilege, it's race not class.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#103
yes, like koch brothers, but they get support from whites including many who aren't wealthy
JI7
Feb 2014
#108
They do, from some, but poorer people are more liable to 1) vote less and 2) vote democratic than
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#112
the top would then include middle class people who often vote for 1 percent over 99
JI7
Feb 2014
#114
Yes. that's my point. The political base for racist dogwhistles is not "white trash," it's the
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#117
And poor whites that support them and vote in those candidates to office who will do things
bravenak
Feb 2014
#111
they appeal to their racism , this is why it was after civil rights that many turned against social
JI7
Feb 2014
#138
I'm just going to laugh, and move on. Me too. I find myself doing that more and more these days
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2014
#124
Short answer: because she has far more money than she could ever possibly need...
shaayecanaan
Feb 2014
#130
you do realize upper income blacks are regularly stopped by police and seen as suspicious at stores
JI7
Feb 2014
#125
lol You're "not sure" why I posted a response saying I "wasn't sure" why you posted this nonsensical
Number23
Feb 2014
#106
THIS!!! And thank you. I cannot believe this got 27 recs. Sounds like Limbaugh or O Keefe Lite.
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#141
it is, i wonder if people actually read it , i guess people just saw him claim to be a marxist
JI7
Feb 2014
#143
I think it'ss knee jerk agreement with a dislike of the term- they'd be embarrassed if they read on
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#151
people have posted actual facts and numbers that there is racism and you want to deny it
JI7
Feb 2014
#147
That post has nothing to do with mine. And certainly nothing to do with your naive
Number23
Feb 2014
#153
a very interesting perspective. But I do think the African-American experience is somewhat different
Douglas Carpenter
Feb 2014
#126
The OP's last paragraph doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Obama didn't grow up with his father
catbyte
Feb 2014
#177
Thank you, JAG. My mom lived through Jim Crow laws in northern Michigan when she was
catbyte
Feb 2014
#183
I'd be interested to hear you expand on the "very different reasons" whites and blacks are poor. nt
Romulox
Feb 2014
#200
I think there is a possible difference here between the USA and other countries
LeftishBrit
Feb 2014
#198