2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: A Man with A Hammer, Who Sees Nails Everywhere [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)It's that it has ZERO to do with this conversation. I have read and shared that piece on Facebook before. So what? I never said that White Privilege doesn't exist and instead try to explain it to people that think it doesn't. So your implication is massively off-base.
However, getting a bunch of privileged, entitled white folks to admit they have been the beneficiaries with white privilege, either in housing (http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/01/248039354/a-battle-for-fair-housing-still-raging-but-mostly-forgotten), or in bank loans (http://www.epi.org/publication/latino-black-borrowers-high-rate-subprime-mortgages/), or when they just don't have change for the bus (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/opinion/research-shows-white-privilege-is-real.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0), or in any other aspect of life DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT THIS COUNTRY IS RUN BY A PLUTOCRACY THAT TEACHES HATE AND BENEFITS FROM IT. You aren't going to fix it by preaching hope and love or by trying to make whites admit they benefit from white privilege (since most of them aren't interested in that). You change it by tearing down the system that screws the 99% and and promotes the dog whistle politics.
The answer to fundamental change is to tear down the hegemony, not to act holier than though and call other posters "rude" and lacking "knowledge."
Again, too bad you love to call names, like accusing my "white privilege" of having to do with my position on the economy without even having the slightest clue who I am.
I know you're still feeling superior, so enjoy it.