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We don't have a society that bends over backwards to make sure that their job, taxes, or voting is fair and is outright terrified of offending said voters or taxpayers or workers

 

the entire premise that we can't expect people to compete on the same level as other races is inherently racist

 

I don't think NA said that at all, and I don't really think that's the point of "white privilege" anyway. It's an attempt to lay guilt on a bunch of people who don't have anything to do with the problem, probably in the hopes that they'll feel the government is justified in redistributing their wealth

 

Uni is like a guy with cancer who is spending his time worrying about the runny nose he has

 

I don't think so. The silliness about the deck being stacked against people runs deep and he clearly feels like outside help is a solution. It's pathetic, but it's where he is. Self-determination is of no value. All the white people who survived and thrived post depression were just privileged.

 

Poor people, regardless of skin color, have it rough.

The kid born to a white trailer park meth head doesn't have it any easier than the black kid born to a single mother in government housing. To say otherwise is really dumb.

 

I just want to know what I can legally do that a black, yellow, red, tan or whatever person CAN'T do... 60 years ago? Yeah, you got an argument. Now? Pull up your panties.

 

If that's what were being argued, you might have a point.

 

But the white kid doesn't live in concentrated poverty so it's not as bad.

 

And even then, this is still America. Put in the work, stay out of trouble and good things are very likely to come your way. That's not "privilege".

 

Of course that's the argument

 

i dunno, a white kid in a trailer park?

 

The kid in the trailer park won't be instantly judged as from a trailer park if he can find a way to get a fresh start somewhere. A kid born in the ghetto will always be "the black guy," with the connotations that go with it.

 

That is a huge crock of shit and you know it.

 

It isn't, whether you realize it or not.

 

Not in my experiences with it.

 

Seriously... Disingenuous at best, and certainly intellectual laziness. By that argument no black person would ever have escaped the clutches of "the Ghetto"....

 

Huh?

 

a trailer park sounds like concentrated poverty to me.

 

I didn't say hush. I said move on. My Cub Scout den master has a degree in black history and she was dismayed that the kids these days don't understand the troubles that black people went through in this country. Oh, they know it happened, but they don't understand it. I said I thought it was great that they don't understand it.

Time to move on. Get past this. Continuously wallowing in it and talking about it just keeps the wounds open. And labeling it "white privilege" is simply another trigger. I remember taking some education courses in UT (I was going to be a middle school teacher, but the college of education wouldn't let me in because after my interview they said I was too much of an "independent thinker" and wouldn't fit well in the public education sector), and someone started talking about this "invisible backpack". It almost felt like I was being browbeaten for having the audacity to have been born to white parents.

Let's fix the issues we have at hand, instead of pointing fingers. In previous discussions on this topic it was said it isn't white guilt, it is white privilege, and that we are not understanding the meaning of it.

I do understand the meaning of it. But the label causes recoil and blame, whether you think it should or not.