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I think what we've seen here is that there is no help for poor disadvantaged white people. No organization to advance uncoloured people. No white-only scholarships or give-aways or white quotas. If you are poor and white then you have a hard road ahead indeed.
That was me.
I remember being jealous of the only black girl at my high school. She not only got to be cooler than most because she was black, but she got every single black-only scholarship in the area for a rather staggering sum which was announced at graduation. I got one small one I had to split. A connected teacher's kid got most of the rest. So, it was student loans that I had to pay back with interest and lots of hard work and self deprivation.
What a privilege 🙄
Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says
.. but when the cops roll up, they don't treat you the same as they do a minority.
If whites resisted arrests like blacks do, whites would be shot just as often,
If cops harassed and slaughtered whites like they do blacks, im sure they'd be less likely to heed the terrible advice of the UnAmerican LOSERS! Who suggest to just be polite to the oppression, and stand at ready with mouth open and well lubed, so you can SUCK OFF every cop that crosses your path
So called "white privilege" is a mixed bag at best. I've been pulled over after going to a bar and not even cited. I've also been locked in the back of a squad car for refusing to give an officer my social security number. I want to get off all the time, or I'm calling BS on this theory.
Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says
privledge
Is this how you share intelligence with dumbasses?
Nobody denies that white people have struggles.
The point is that as a white person you don't have to worry about being denied housing because of the color of your skin, be racially profiled and pulled over by the police because of the color of your skin, be denied a job because of the color of your skin, etc...
You said you don't feel like your skin color ever helped you. Maybe that's true, but if you were black it may have hurt in this society.
In those terms, blacks certainly have it harder.
The housing thing...yes...though at least in Los Angeles, that discrimination almost always comes from other minority, foreign born, landlords. Thats unfortunate that if you are black you probably have to look harder to rent, though if you are middle class black and have a decent job, you won't get turned down to rent based on race, even with a racist landlord.
As to the other stuff....prove it.
Again, what is this magical white privellege I have benefitted from?
The privilege to work your ass off to support welfare jigs and still feel guilty about it.
White privilege ensured that Euros would be in charge of Latin America for centuries, and that the indigenous peoples would be indentured servants. They had no access to education, enterprise, were unable to run for office, manage their own affairs, and were subject to torture and beatings.
Which is way different than the slavery, convict-lease programs (post slavery), the miscegenation laws, mass incarceration and completely disproportionate representation that blacks have received in this fair country. Right?
Is it White privilege, or is it that Blacks are suffering from their own cultural problems? You don't see Asians suffering from "White privilege".
Loser deadbeat blacks blame whites and Hispanics for their own failure, white privilege is just another term which they use to blame others for their own personal failures.
that discrimination almost always comes from other minority, foreign born, landlords
Probably Asian or Jewish like Donald Sterling
I think what we've seen here is that there is no help for poor disadvantaged white people
I think that, right there, sums up why the whole 'white privilege' is nothing more than a bullshit generalization. Poor disadvantaged, white people, in lots of parts of the US are living at almost a third-world level of existence.
I grew up around a bunch of chicanos and lower middle class/poor white people who thought my parents were stealing food out of their mouth, by "taking their jobs", jobs that their parents were unqualified for, no less.
On an unrelated note, NM is one of the few states in America where chicano culture predominates and being chicano is a badge of honor, even for those who are half-white with non-hispanic surnames.
Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says
even if someone is rude to cops, it doesn't justify immediate death.
May not justify death, but difficult to argue that it is a stupid thing to do and that certain elements of society (poor uneducated whites, ghetto blacks and other ghetto dwellers) seem to be unable to grasp, usually due to lack of guidance/parenting.
Correct. It's the smell of the cookin....
if it's haggis or chitlins...just get the fuck outta my house!!!
It's not the color of the skin.
I refuse to believe it. Theres no way someone can be that stupid.
She will be another one that will be sucking on her exhaust pipe in her garage one day snap chatting it.
Narcissistic Bitch.
I refuse to believe it. Theres no way someone can be that stupid.
Apparently, there is, and she seems probably well paid too.
As I am not an Ivy League Director, I lack whatever erudition is evidently required to see the wisdom of her crusade.
This could all be avoided if libbies would confess their sins more often...
I refuse to believe it. Theres no way someone can be that stupid.
Actually, it's good that she's not having kids because they'd be children of faculty and thus, have a huge advantage in Ivy admissions, over a regular white or Asian kid with better credentials but no faculty/alumni or rich family connections. This is a win for the average Joe or Jane out there.
I look forward to a day where Ivy school means merit and not a bunch of resume padding buffoons.
Her husband is probably Melisa Click and she left that part out.
This could all be avoided if libbies would confess their sins more often...
Yup, PC is Left Wing Confession... Say 10 Blame Whiteys and an Ave Privilege.
I refuse to believe it. Theres no way someone can be that stupid.
Yes, they really are THAT stupid. How do you think Obama got elected, TWICE???
Either that, or she is just saying that because she is extremely ugly and can't get laid.
Why don't we have Affirmative Action for sports? The NBA in 2015 was composed of 74.4 percent black players, 23.3 percent white players, 1.8 percent Latino players, and 0.2 percent Asian players.
Why don't we have Affirmative Action for sports? The NBA in 2015 was composed of 74.4 percent black players, 23.3 percent white players, 1.8 percent Latino players, and 0.2 percent Asian players.
We need to clone Larry Bird
http://patrick.net/Will+Larry+Bird%2C+forever+be+the+last+great+white+basketball+player%3F
Plus, Manu Ginobili is a fake Latino as his father was Italian, who'd moved to Argentina instead of Britain, Canada, or the US and thus, gets the geographic Latino nod.
Let's give her a Darwin award.
I'm pretty sure her case of "female pattern baldness" says it all.
There isn't really white privilege. There's is, however, charm privilege... I know, it's a shocker. People are nicer to people they like. AND, people have a tendency to like people who don't act like assholes.
The one accident I ever got into... It was totally my fault... The (African American) cop apologized to me several times for having to give me a ticket. Now, that's charm privilege.
In simple brains, you might think it's because I'm a girl. But that's not it. In situations where I know I'm wrong... I never have an attitude. I'm totally respectful. I genuinely want to understand what I did wrong. The look of contrition is written all over my face. I naturally mirror the feelings of the people I'm talking to. I'm concerned about others and I'm not obsessed with recrafting history to make my actions the right ones despite evidence to the contrary. Believe it or not, people want to be kind to people they like. The people who I got into the accident with -- the accident that was totally my fault -- didn't even sue me. The statute of limitations has long run out.
If people spent less time trying to demand respect and more time trying to be the kind of person who deserves respect... they would find that the respect comes more easily.
If people spent less time trying to demand respect and more time trying to be the kind of person who deserves respect... they would find that the respect comes more easily.
In the real world mindfulness is something severely lacking in some people.
We need to clone Larry Bird
The NBA is much more exciting when Boston fields a competitive team. Most of the "point forward" type players are more European these days, but Bird just had supreme confidence along with the ability to shoot the 3 and good court vision.Rin says
, Manu Ginobili is a fake Latino as his father was Italian,
basically. Many of the Brazilian players are either Black or German while most of the Argentinian team is Italian, with couple Germans and an Arab thrown in.
Even the best tennis player to come out of Argentina, Gabriela Sabatini is Italian. But Argentinian tennis isn't as dominated by Italians as Basketball is
Why don't we have Affirmative Action for sports
or the spelling bee which is now televised on ESPN; I guess that makes it a sport now
Only if it includes Jello wrestling while spelling
Like super model, high-stakes Scrabble?
Only if it includes Jello wrestling while spelling.
I was thinking more like adjusted for income and grasp of ebonics and various other regional dialects. But yeah, jello wrestling might work too.
Like super model, high-stakes Scrabble?
One of the contestants this year, a Japanese-American kid from Culver City, was a high-stakes scrabble player, but not really super model material. I think he was one of the finalists
m Culver City, was a high-stakes scrabble player, but not really super model material. I think he was one of the finalists
But we want super models who can't actually spell, the ones who confuse real words from made up words, betting YUUUUGE! It would be not only exciting to see someone betting her mansion on the word "imaginate," BUT funny as hell.
now everyone knows she would want to mate with only white males, meaning she's a racist.turtledove says
In simple brains, you might think it's because I'm a girl. But that's not it.
yeah right...
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Both sides of my family arrived in the US post 1900, from oppressive conditions in Europe. One side literally starving in Germany in the aftermath of WWI, one side fleeing religious persecution from the Czar in Russia.
Nobody had money enough other than to make the trip. My Grandparents were children during these trips. No one from either side had finished school any higher than eight grade and that went for my grandparents once they were here. Everyone, all brothers, went through the depression and were in combat in WWII or Korea. One died on a naval ship in the Mediterranean, two had bad enough PTSD that they were functional cripples for the rest of their lives and never had a job beyond menial work nor had a relationship after that though one remained married in name.
My dad was the first to graduate college in his family...maybe even in his entire religious sect as they were somewhat Luddites. Both his sisters followed. After growing up in a tough neighborhood in a 2bd/1ba house(that's 6 people living in that 2bd/1ba house if you weren't counting. On my moms side things were better but still blue collar. Nobody got rich, though my grandparents were so frugal that they saved a surprising sum in their life. The first person graduated from that side of the family in the 70's. It wasn't until 2 years ago that the second one did.
But both me and my brother did. We grew upon a very ethnically diverse area in a suburb of Los Angeles. I'm finding it very hard to discern exactly our white privellege was or came from. I got to make more mistakes than most people, only because of my dad. None of it was anything to do with legal things...more bouncing around low end jobs during college. My brother didn't make those mistakes and actually completed college in a field he really didn't have a strong aptitude for. He just worked incredibly hard and that continued once he was in the work place. Again, not seeing how white privellege did anything.
I've worked for Asian, black, white, Latino, straight, gay, male, females bosses in my life. No one that I know of ever helped me due to my skin color. My first gov boss was black and was really hard on me. It wasn't due to skin color though...it was because I was a suburban born kid who was about to work in a tough area(like literally there were shootings while I was at some of my worksites). He needed me prepared and able to be aware of my surroundings and that wouldn't happen if he wasn't a hardass on me.
Again, what is this magical white privellege I have benefitted from?