White privilege isn't real - Jordan Peterson

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Pretty sure the privilege only pertains to the culture that it is a part of, outside of different cultural standards of living, and it is rather silly to take white privilege as being a broad statement that is meant to apply to cultures that would not provide that privilege. It is rather intellectually dishonest to try and disprove concepts of white privilege by bring up examples of other cultures where the privilege is not implied to be a part of.

Yes, you remove something from its context, then the thing does not exist. Take matter away from the universe and you will not find gravity (but yet gravity is still a thing). Brilliant argument. Congratulation, you just invented Buddhism.

If I understand what has been said, there is 'cultural privilege' in virtually all countries that have an overwhelming ethnic dominance.
In some countries, it is even written in law.
Most would not have democratic principles, however.

Pertersen is not a cross-cultural psychologist so he wouldn't know that Chinese companies pay white people to teach English (even when English is not their first language) in favor of a black person who's first language is English or that white people are hired to attend boardroom meetings or sell products or participate in company photos purely to add prestige to the company or that Chinese films use caucasian featured Asian people with large eyes and pointy noses and that anime apply nordic features/colour to characters.

Would you agree, that in China, there would be Asian privilege?

Are you saying the Chinese are racist *against* Chinese people?

Their culture promotes the idea of worshipping power. White Europeans run the planet so they want to imitate everything white. For example when a Chinese emperor started foot binding his wives and concubines the barbaric practice was imitated by the common people who aspired to be like those in power despite the pain and suffering it caused for the poor women.

That's true I see your point. So basically then other races have privileges over one another all of the world then? So in a country like Japan or China, there is Asian privileges over other races or in countries in Africa, there is African privilege over other races...

If this is true though, then why do people in the US complain about white privilege, if other races have their privileges all over the world. Doesn't it all even out then, and therefore why complain about white privilege, when it all evens out all over the world?

Dude.
China isn't subservient to the western powers.
Their 'Wolf Warrior' diplomacy proves that.



Dude.
They want to be the 'Top Dog'.

Leftist ideology.
I do believe there are pockets of 'privilege', but not all of it is white.

The US southern states still have a racial problem, in particular, I believe.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

Well another thing is, is that I find this white privilege thing kind of hard to believe. There are a lot of white people I know that are not poor, and not well off, and a lot of rich celebrities that are not white. So it seems like it's all really a case by case basis and not a generalized thing, or am I wrong?

Well I don't believe him...

If white privilege isn't real why do black people get treated worse by cops generally? I mean I have mental health issues so I am also in a class that is typically more abused by police and yeah if you are homeless and white the whiteness wont protect you. So sure black people are not the only ones who get worst treatment from cops but even so they are more systematically targeted.

I mean you know why marijuana is illegal? well sure it is getting legalized across states now, but it was basically illegal because racism. Because presumably black blues and jazz musicians were drugging white girls with it to get them to sleep with them...interestingly enough marijuana is not a drug that actually makes people too messed up to know what is going on generally. So yeah it was basically just racism some white people where offended about other white people interacting with black people and made up horror stories about it.

Having been drugged once myself I can say for sure it was not marijuana that they used. It is just a good thing I had only gone over to have a couple drinks and then had it planned to go have my sister do my hair at her work next door to that bar. That was kinda bad though cause well of course she didn't know I had gotten drugged and I also did not know...but it was at her work and I was all like partially passed out and she initially was kind of angry because she thought maybe I had like done some like hard drugs before going into her work. But to my knowledge I had only had like two beers and a shot of liquor while just waiting till she was ready to do my hair I even remember having the plan to limit it to that so I wasn't too tipsy for having my haircut. But then she felt bad of assuming that when I told her someone must have drugged my drink. She even had to tell some people at her work that, that is what happened and she did not just invite a druggy to the hair salon.

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Oh okay, now I am only going by what I see and my POV, but when I watch American footage of American police, a lot of the cops are themselves, black, so do black cops really treat black people worse as well?

I'm assuming this is sarcasm?

Looks like white privilege is indeed very real, with life-threatening results:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/20/heal ... index.html

I wish it was, but no that was actually one of the reasons that marijuana was outlawed...I wrote a college paper about marijuana and that was in various peer reviewed articles I had access to with going to the college. It was not true...but with the racism at the time it was convincing enough for many people. Like it was fear mongering to get people to agree with outlawing it.

A little about it:
"Anslinger claimed that the majority of pot smokers were minorities, including African Americans, and that marijuana had a negative effect on these “degenerate races,” such as inducing violence or causing insanity. Furthermore, he noted, “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” Perhaps even more worrisome to Anslinger was pot’s supposed threat to white women’s virtue. He believed that smoking pot would result in their having sex with black men."
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is ... d%20States.

Not sure quite who that guy was but, yeah some pretty messed up thinking there.

Also white people smoke just as much pot as minorities...