White Privilege

[altair1013]

@conan

Personally the usage of white privilege is offense and insulting…the left had been using it in derogatory manner as of late.

It is. If a significant number of any racial group finds a racial description of them to be offensive, that description should be gone. Period. No excuses.

[WuWei]

@AngraMainyu

This is very true. But it won’t be because of his race

Why is race worse than any other criteria?

[AngraMainyu]

It doesn’t have to be.

[WuWei]

@AngraMainyu

It doesn’t have to be.

But it is? If so, why?

[SixFoot]

@AngraMainyu

Shame is an appropriate reaction for attempting to exterminate Slavs, Jews, and Romani while enslaving the rest of Europe.

Shame on the people who actually did that, anyway.

[Guilds]

@altair1013

True. But by calling it “white privilege”

There is both white and wealth privilege.
There is male privilege.
There is hetero privilege.

[WuWei]

@Guilds

@altair1013

True. But by calling it “white privilege”

There is both white and wealth privilege.
There is male privilege.
There is hetero privilege.

And black and poor privilege.
Female.
Homosexual privilege. perfect example. ■■■■ is blocked, hetero is not.

[Jezcoe]

@mobulis

@Axxowiz

The woke cult is irritating in their self loathing. To each their own but I wish they would keep their masochism to themselves in this regard. We all know the history, we know what happened way before we were around was wrong. I also see how one side never wants to move on from that moment in time and will weaponize it literally forever, sorry I will not play that game.

It makes me think of the Germans after WW2 and how generation after generation are told to be ashamed of something they had absolutely nothing to do with since they were not even alive, as if its in their DNA to act like that if not checked.

They even have a word for it in German “Geschichtsmüde“ which translates to “Weary of History”,… I say no thanks to a life like that.

Those who forget or ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

Yeah… I was taught the “Lost Cause” version of our history.

Being “weary of history” is a dangerous thing.

[Guilds]

@altair1013

One of our worst failures is our atrocious mental health circus. It’s not taken seriously.

If one has the means, mental health can be addressed much better, than without the ability to get treatment.

[Jezcoe]

@Axxowiz

We shouldn’t forget and it should be taught not saying we should forget the past. The shaming and guilt part of it though does not bring people together. I am sure in their hearts they may have good intentions and think this is the way to heal but it is having the opposite effect.

You or me cannot change the skin color we have been born with (unless we were Michael Jackson) but I think as a society we have greatly moved past these events. Western slavery these days is a cubicle pulling 11-13 hour work days in the tech industry. No one wants to own a slave in the west the ideal is repulsive.

This is just my opinion but I think right now is the time for a message of unity among Americans because we are facing a Great Depression, and in bad times bad things happen and despot leaders find and audience out of desperation. I hate to use the Hitler analogy but they would have been no Hitler if it wasn’t for the economic desperation in Germany and the humiliation after WW1. See how those things could repeat as well ‘Economic Depression‘ at the same time telling people they need to feel ‘Ashamed’.

Your quote is true but it usually takes on a different form when it repeats.

The way I see it though is that there is a difference between “shame” and “acknowledgment”.

Acknowledging the truth of the Country’s past allows us to be better for the future. I don’t think that we really and truly acknowledge the past. We have a very pollyanna story that we tell ourselves.

[DMK]

It’s a shame people buy into concepts like “white privilege”. It’s an attempt to stereotype.

As many posters have said, there are all kinds of privileges.

[WuWei]

I couldn’t agree more. And the vast majority of the pollyanna narrative is designed to make the central government seem benevolent.

[altair1013]

@Guilds

There is both white and wealth privilege.
There is male privilege.
There is hetero privilege.

Using this to demean and minimalize anyone’s accomplishments is hate speech. Stop racializing and grouping people. We don’t like it and don’t deserve it.

[Toll_Collector]

This is in reply to your OP. I didn’t want to quote it.

Great post. I didn’t think you were capable of more than one liners. I have now been educated. I know, I know, I shouldn’t talk. I’m not even good at them.

[WuWei]

Thank you for the backhanded compliment. You must not have been here during the GWOT.

[AngraMainyu]

It doesn’t have to be. It is just one criteria among others.

[altair1013]

@AngraMainyu

It doesn’t have to be. It is just one criteria among others.

Using this term to demean and minimalize anyone’s accomplishments is hate speech. Stop racializing and grouping people. We don’t like it and don’t deserve it.

[Guilds]

@mobulis

Those who forget or ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

Why?

We all know Jewish and black people were treated poorly, enslaved, mass murdered., and treated like 2nd class citizens…but come on…that was a long time ago.

It’s all good now. time to move on, get over it…and go out and make a good life.

[WuWei]

@AngraMainyu

It doesn’t have to be. It is just one criteria among others.

@AngraMainyu

But it won’t be because of his race

Emphasis yours. I think we can agree that race is weighted far more than anything else with homosexuality coming in 2nd.

[AngraMainyu]

No it isn’t. It’s the phenomena of not being negatively impacted due to your race.