Toxic masculinity and white privilige. What to do?

[WuWei]

@PocketAces

Are you a white privileged man in this country?

Me?

10whiteprivileges

[PocketAces]

Actually I was asking Altair, but what you said kinda sounded racist.

Are you a Racist? Do you think that you’re better than someone, just because you’re
white, and they’re not?

[Axxowiz]

I have read many of Sneaky’s posts I haven’t heard anyone accuse let alone even consider he is racist. He is trolling you however.

[WuWei]

@PocketAces

Actually I was asking Altair, but what you said kinda sounded racist.

Are you a Racist? Do you think that you’re better than someone, just because you’re
white, and they’re not?

Then you should have addressed him.

I am better than Someone, I don’t know if it’s because I’m white.

[WuWei]

@Axxowiz

I have read many of Sneaky’s posts I haven’t heard anyone accuse let alone even consider he is racist. He is trolling you however.

How am I trolling him?

[NJBob]

@LouC

None of that negates the reality that in America White Privelege has existed and no doubt still does.

What endows a person with greater privilege, skin color or money/social class?

It seems to me that those that struggle with the guilt of their “White Privilege” are actually the beneficiaries of economic privilege and simply want to broad brush every other white person with their guilt.

Tell me, who has more privilege; the Black child of professional parents or the white child of unemployed/under employed blue collar parents?

I for one won’t feel guilt for someone else’s privilege.

[tnt]

@altair1013

First of all. I don’t believe in either. But that’s not my problem. Liberals have failed to convince me that I should concern myself with these made up conditions. So it’s a liberal problem, not mine. So for sake of argument, let’s move beyond that. What is the point of labeling someone as privileged? What am I supposed to do with this label? Walk around and feel guilty? What is the point? What do you suggest that I do with all of my privilege? Is this simply an awareness campaign? What’s the point? And what about my toxic masculinity? How toxic is it and how do I detoxify? Or am I supposed to simply feel bad for being too manly?

So in a nutshell. I have been labeled. What exactly do you want me to do with your labels?

If you are privileged, don’t be an ■■■■■■■■ Don’t feel entitled. Don’t use the influence that your wealth and access give you to use the power of the government to enrich yourself at the cost of others.

Be humble. Don’t think you are better than others simply because of the size of your wallet.

Have empathy. Think of others.

Recognize that in America wealth, color, these things matter, and work to change that so that in the future, health and happiness are less dependent on those factors.

How is this really a question.

[tnt]

@NJBob

What endows a person with greater privilege, skin color or money/social class?

It seems to me that those that struggle with the guilt of their “White Privilege” are actually the beneficiaries of economic privilege and simply what to broad brush every other white person with their guilt.

Tell me, who has more privilege; the Black child of professional parents or the white child of unemployed/under employed blue collar parents?

I for one won’t feel guilt for someone else’s privilege

It may surprise you, but there are many studies that suggest poor white people have more clout in american society than affluent blacks.

I’ll try to find them.

[NJBob]

@tnt

@NJBob

What endows a person with greater privilege, skin color or money/social class?

It seems to me that those that struggle with the guilt of their “White Privilege” are actually the beneficiaries of economic privilege and simply what to broad brush every other white person with their guilt.

Tell me, who has more privilege; the Black child of professional parents or the white child of unemployed/under employed blue collar parents?

I for one won’t feel guilt for someone else’s privilege

It may surprise you, but there are many studies that suggest poor white people have more clout in american society than affluent blacks.

I’ll try to find them.

If you do, I’ll be glad to read them.

Another problem I have with the concept of White Privilege is the apparent assumption that all whites share equally in this privilege. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Wealth, connections, legacies do not belong to blue collar families.

So when it comes time to help minorities get opportunities to get into colleges or advance in the workplace who do you suppose needs to step aside and pay the price?

[WuWei]

I am entitled. I earned it. Why does color matter?

[WuWei]

@tnt

Have empathy. Think of others.

Empathy, I see this chant used a lot in Liberalanity. Let’s take a look.

em·pa·thy

/ˈempəTHē/

noun

1. the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

You feel like you can understand and share the feelings of a 25 year-old black man?

[tnt]

@NJBob

If you do, I’ll be glad to read them.

Another problem I have with the concept of White Privilege is the apparent assumption that all whites share equally in this privilege. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Wealth, connections, legacies do not belong to blue collar families.

So when it comes time to help minorities get opportunities to get into colleges or advance in the workplace who do you suppose needs to step aside and pay the price?

I think this article links to the study I was thinking of:

Rich black boys fare no better in life than middle-class whites

that article also addresses your point here. Data shows that generally, all whites enjoy white privilage.

[SaysWho]

@WuWei

@tnt

Have empathy. Think of others.

Empathy, I see this chant used a lot in Liberalanity. Let’s take a look.

em·pa·thy

/ˈempəTHē/

noun

1. the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

You feel like you can understand and share the feelings of a 25 year-old black man?

Why not try?

[altair1013]

@PocketAces

Are you a white privileged man in this country?

Nope. I am where I am because I have skills, education and stayed out of trouble. In other words, I prepared myself for life. Had I not prepared myself for life, I would be in worse shape than nearly every black man who did prepare for life. It’ a pretty simple concept. It really is.

[SaysWho]

The south is still holding Republican sanctioned rallies to celebrate slavery.

Do you think a well-prepared black man could get a job under a confederate today?

[Bodecea]

@altair1013

First of all. I don’t believe in either. But that’s not my problem. Liberals have failed to convince me that I should concern myself with these made up conditions. So it’s a liberal problem, not mine. So for sake of argument, let’s move beyond that. What is the point of labeling someone as privileged? What am I supposed to do with this label? Walk around and feel guilty? What is the point? What do you suggest that I do with all of my privilege? Is this simply an awareness campaign? What’s the point? And what about my toxic masculinity? How toxic is it and how do I detoxify? Or am I supposed to simply feel bad for being too manly?

So in a nutshell. I have been labeled. What exactly do you want me to do with your labels?

Dr Phil had a good episode on “White Privilege”… Most of us have a misunderstanding of what it is. It’s passive, no one is at fault for it, it just is. There’s absolutely no reason to be defensive about it, just be aware of it.

[Bodecea]

@WuWei

@LouC

Look at the Republican Congress, a perfect example of late was the Kavanaugh hearing, you don’t get to be such a good old tightie white boys club like that by accident.

Clarence Thomas.

Maybe that’s why he speaks out and leads the way in position papers so much.

[SaysWho]

Also Clarence Thomas is republican.

Of the Republican justices:
Thomas - Predator
Kavanaugh - Predator
Gorsuch - Thief

Good track record.

[CanadianJudo]

oh yes reporting sex workers to the IRS is the peak of manhood.

[PAmoderate37]

@Bodecea

Dr Phil had a good episode on “White Privilege”… Most of us have a misunderstanding of what it is. It’s passive, no one is at fault for it, it just is. There’s absolutely no reason to be defensive about it, just be aware of it.

You can believe that all you want. But labeling working class white people as “white privileged” is how you ended up with Trump as president. See the folks in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin who voted for Obama and Trump.