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In reply to the discussion: here is a question regarding my "white privilege", [View all]NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)87. I do not agree that because I'm white, I am somehow "privileged"
"white privilege" is a term that has sprung to life in the ever increasing desire of some to wedge racist tension as much as possible. I do not think that because I was born white, I owe any social debt of any kind to anyone.
The notion that all black people are disadvantaged, and all white people are advantaged is the very essence of a racist formula.
Because racism does exist,.... does not automatically mean every white person has benefited, nor is every black person oppressed by it.
There is no "remedy" required, and like other posters have demanded,... I do not owe payment of any kind, and there certainly is no truth that because I'm white I was pushed to the front of the line.
That seems pretty clear.
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I replied to this post before but here you are again with no response. Here's my same answer.
brush
Apr 2015
#76
UM, heating oil in a big pot is the way popcorn was always made by poor people.
merrily
Apr 2015
#69
Wasn't there a thread (within the last 6 months or so) very similar to this one...
boston bean
Apr 2015
#14
And they are posted, and the OP never returns to respond to anything...
ScreamingMeemie
Apr 2015
#59
As a member of a paradoxically privileged and sometimes maligned and persecuted minority...
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2015
#11
A DUer started a thread yesterday to discuss concrete ways to address institutional racism.
Nye Bevan
Apr 2015
#53
There are not any 'groups' of people's who are stereotyped by the idiots among them
randr
Apr 2015
#31
You are not supposed to feel guilty, but you should acknowledge that it is easier to be white
Marrah_G
Apr 2015
#35
You could get down off the cross and read to educate yourself. That would be nice. nt
LeftyMom
Apr 2015
#39
"I don't hold anything against anybody,....... unless they are an asshole." Self loathing, perhaps?
Buzz Clik
Apr 2015
#48
You're not supposed to feel guilty or pay anything. That's missing the point. n/t
arcane1
Apr 2015
#52
Why would you feel guilt!? I just don't get that at all. Seems to me it signals something unnoticed.
Rex
Apr 2015
#65
I don't get why you think discussing white privilege is shaming or has anything to do with guilt
fishwax
Apr 2015
#68
I imagine it's much more convenient to call it "white shaming" than it is to
LanternWaste
Apr 2015
#82