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10 Jan 2018, 6:51 am

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If white people had "privilege", no one would be allowed to criticise them and get away with it. Instead, it's all we hear. "Angry white men" blamed for Trump's victory, as well as white Russians. White people in the south of the US are made fun of and made to look like inbred simpletons in films. "White trash" is a socially acceptable term. You replace "white" with some other groups and you're done.


I guess if you insist on redefining white privilege you might have a point. Unfortunately it's not one that actually addresses what the concept refers to.

Feel free to read this so you can actually make arguments that respond to the concept of white privilege instead of just sounding triggered:
http://code.ucsd.edu/pcosman/Backpack.pdf


"The problem is that you simply don't understand that the phrase "white privilege" refers to a grand conspiracy theory in which all white people are purposefully conditioned to be oppressive and racist towards non-whites whilst also deliberately conditioned not to know that they're doing it."

"White privilege" as a concept predates McIntosh and, no matter how much obfuscatory academic language anyone may try to envelop the term in, it remains a value judgement based solely on an immutable characteristic and typically manifests as such. McIntosh's "list" was a personal anecdote. She claimed to have never been asked to speak on behalf of her "race", yet presumed to speak on behalf of all white people. The kafkaesque suggestion that those white persons who disagreed with her were proof of the legitimacy of her hypothesis is an irony which I hope will not be lost on you.

The more egregious uses of "white privilege" include it's application as a litmus test or as a pseudo-religious rite of passage in which one is deemed to be unworthy or impure unless one has confessed one's original sin of being born a wrongskin - see "Weatherman" or "The Weathermen" or, indeed, check out some of the 'Progressive' groups on any campus.



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10 Jan 2018, 7:47 am

Grand conspiracy? Try sociology and evolutionary biology.


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10 Jan 2018, 7:50 am

"White privilege" is evolutionary biology? You owe me a new cup of coffee.


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10 Jan 2018, 8:33 am

Genetic selfishness happens.


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10 Jan 2018, 9:47 am

White privilege is very real. You'll be able to see it on display next month in front of the whole World at the festival of white privilege that is the Winter Olympics when athletes from snowy countries dominate. :wink:



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10 Jan 2018, 9:55 am

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White privilege is very real. You'll be able to see it on display next month in front of the whole World at the festival of white privilege that is the Winter Olympics when athletes from snowy countries dominate. :wink:

Snow causes many injuries, death via accidents, and messes up the economy. So the idea that it is beautiful is an example of a hidden racist agenda. :D


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10 Jan 2018, 10:24 am

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Genetic selfishness happens.


Oddly, you aren't giving up any of the "white priveleges" you and other SJWs claim to despise. :roll:

I don't even know why I bother responding to you. You make BS claims about me and when I refute what you say, you run away.



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10 Jan 2018, 12:27 pm

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White privilege is very real. You'll be able to see it on display next month in front of the whole World at the festival of white privilege that is the Winter Olympics when athletes from snowy countries dominate. :wink:

Snow causes many injuries, death via accidents, and messes up the economy. So the idea that it is beautiful is an example of a hidden racist agenda. :D

Yes, they get them while they're young with vile propaganda such as this:

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10 Jan 2018, 12:35 pm

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Genetic selfishness happens.


In all genetic populations. So terming it "white" is pointless.


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10 Jan 2018, 1:02 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
JohnPowell wrote:
If white people had "privilege", no one would be allowed to criticise them and get away with it. Instead, it's all we hear. "Angry white men" blamed for Trump's victory, as well as white Russians. White people in the south of the US are made fun of and made to look like inbred simpletons in films. "White trash" is a socially acceptable term. You replace "white" with some other groups and you're done.


I guess if you insist on redefining white privilege you might have a point. Unfortunately it's not one that actually addresses what the concept refers to.

Feel free to read this so you can actually make arguments that respond to the concept of white privilege instead of just sounding triggered:
http://code.ucsd.edu/pcosman/Backpack.pdf


I know about the concept it just doesn't exist, and I was explaining why it doesn't exist.


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10 Jan 2018, 2:48 pm

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funeralxempire wrote:
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If white people had "privilege", no one would be allowed to criticise them and get away with it. Instead, it's all we hear. "Angry white men" blamed for Trump's victory, as well as white Russians. White people in the south of the US are made fun of and made to look like inbred simpletons in films. "White trash" is a socially acceptable term. You replace "white" with some other groups and you're done.


I guess if you insist on redefining white privilege you might have a point. Unfortunately it's not one that actually addresses what the concept refers to.

Feel free to read this so you can actually make arguments that respond to the concept of white privilege instead of just sounding triggered:
http://code.ucsd.edu/pcosman/Backpack.pdf


I know about the concept it just doesn't exist, and I was explaining why it doesn't exist.


Oddly, the ones who piss and gripe about "white privelege" the most happen to be white themselves. :roll: But do you see them actually owning up to that? Not a chance. They just don't want anyone who doesn't walk in lockstep to have what they want.



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11 Jan 2018, 11:21 am

Because SJW's and there liberal and media enablers have succeeded seemingly making every statement have a racist agenda criticizing actual racist statements seems like just more whining.


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16 Jan 2018, 12:38 am

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I know about the concept it just doesn't exist, and I was explaining why it doesn't exist.


You're entitled to believe that. You're also entitled to believe in unicorns.


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16 Jan 2018, 12:44 am

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Oddly, the ones who piss and gripe about "white privelege" the most happen to be white themselves. :roll: But do you see them actually owning up to that? Not a chance. They just don't want anyone who doesn't walk in lockstep to have what they want.


Explain how exactly one would 'own up' to something they never actually chose to have. Go on...


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16 Jan 2018, 1:12 am

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Explain how exactly one would 'own up' to something they never actually chose to have. Go on...


You and your SJW ilk don't commit suicide despite how you think being white is such a terrible thing. If you hate being white so much and think you are perpetuating "white privelege" by being alive, why do you keep living? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

It was SJWs that made me stop calling myself a liberal. And no, the conservatives did not win me over. No one did.



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16 Jan 2018, 1:18 am

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funeralxempire wrote:
Explain how exactly one would 'own up' to something they never actually chose to have. Go on...


You and your SJW ilk don't commit suicide despite how you think being white is such a terrible thing. If you hate being white so much and think you are perpetuating "white privelege", why do you keep living? It doesn't make sense to me at all.


:lol:

And here I was under the impression you were someone who was being serious and who hoped to be taken seriously.


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