I love it when white Dudes proclaim to know the cure for white privilege

[The Second Stone]

242. I think that the way the "white male privilege" debate is being

developed is insulting and racist.

If I am in fact "privileged" by the mere fact of being white and male I'd like to know at what desk, window or counter I go to take a job of someone else and get higher pay to boot. I've never done such a thing or heard of such a thing. I would be happy to investigate the facts if anyone knows of such an arrangement. I can assure you that no one has ever alerted me, a pleasant enough white male of FDR style liberal politics persuasion, that there was such an old boys club available. Let me put in a caveat. I can tell you the names for such clubs for conservative white males. The Federalist Society, the Republican Party, The Bohemian Club, The Olympic Club, Skull & Bones etc. are in fact such arrangements. But they are closed to me and the vast majority of white males. At least I assume so. I wouldn't ask to join a club like that, and I've never been recruited for them despite knowing many of their members. Those are not clubs for any ole white males. They are for conservative white males from the right kind of families (that have money).

I don't get to skip lines at the airport, have limo drivers assume that I am their afternoon customer, get moved ahead in line, get to speak longer, get special treatment of any kind that I know of because I am a white male. I didn't get to be a legacy at university, admitted to any grad school, or hired by any company because I am a white male.

So when someone tells me about all these wonderful privileges, I have to call bullshit. I don't get them, I know of no individual who does get them. What I interpret as a fact from those same statistics are that women and black people and other minorities are discriminated against and oppressed in a great number of ways and that is a fact that should be remedied by law. We can do that by passing laws. We can pass laws by building coalitions, registering voters and voting for liberal candidates and progressive candidates. Votes are counted one at a time. Equal pay laws with teeth behind them will protect all citizens.