Question:
"white privilege" - where did it come from?
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2013-10-16 18:49:40 UTC
I've seen people saying that there is "white privilege" (never heard of a real example of it but that's beside the point for now)

Who do you suppose gave white people their privilege?

...Whit people, right? That is to say, they earned it for themselves.

So, why are people so mad about this?
Nine answers:
Lee
2013-10-16 20:38:18 UTC
Here are a few examples of it since you claim you've never heard of a real example.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyL5EcAwB9c&list=PLE1972007C54625FA&index=47

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOS3BBmUxvs&list=PLE1972007C54625FA&index=48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvU7uUgjUI&list=PLE1972007C54625FA
Qwerty™
2013-10-16 19:08:10 UTC
So...what's your point? You clearly understand what white privilege is and that it was obtained unfairly and to the detriment of everyone else (which you use the "but other nations did it to" argument to deflect this very plain fact) in a nation that called itself "free" and "equal" when people owned salves and sex crimes against black women weren't even considered crimes.



You see the hypocrisy? You can't say white privilege is a myth or something we made up while also claiming you earned your white privilege. You didn't earn anything. You have your white privilege because the Europeans decided to rape and pillage a foreign land and declare themselves superior while still pretending all Americans are equal. Sounds psychotic doesn't it?



Is it so wrong that non white Americans people want the same rights and privileges as everyone else? I shouldn't have to earn the privilege to not be followed around in a store. That makes no sense. No, friend. The work is on your side. Work on your arrogance and your prejudice. I'm doing everything I need to do.



But if you really want us to fight fire with fire. You know "earn our privilege like the white man did" then we can and we shall. We just thought we'd spare you a second civil war is all.
Margie The K
2013-10-16 18:53:10 UTC
You need history lessons. Lots of them. White people gave themselves privilege by force, thievery, murder, and other great qualities.



This is why in some nations, Americans are considered scary people.
M
2013-10-16 18:56:50 UTC
It comes from white supremacy which is a global system the world is currently under...



"Racism/White Supremacy(domination) is a global system of people who classify themselves as white that are dedicated to mistreating and/or subjugating everyone in the known universe whom they classify as not white "(All for their own benefit) - Context of White Supremacy radio



White privilege is a byproduct of racism/white supremacy... Racism/White supremacy is the real problem that should be eradicated and replaced with justice and equality for all regardless of race or what ever... all the byproducts of the system will not exist if white supremacy is over.
sbbb l
2013-10-17 02:37:14 UTC
another example is when White people can travel around the globe with more ease, no visa/paper hassles, less suspicions and when they stay abroad mostly they'll be seen as accepted, respected, calibre-people occupying important positions in business and environment.

also when some of them (like you) preach with racial baits and propaganda to other peoples to take pride in races because that will make more division to benefit their racist cause further
lalastar
2013-10-16 18:53:45 UTC
LOL. The blatant ignorance. Going along with white privilege,how can you beat someone at their own game? I don't think you understand the term,rather true or not. It's a western idea.
wyliesmom
2013-10-16 18:54:23 UTC
There are quite a few bigotry comments, white, black, and otherwise, and other old sayings from the past. I just wish they would just stay in the past. It is time to move on. The world is getting smaller, and we need to learn to get along just as human beings.
Jason
2014-04-04 13:20:16 UTC
White privilege is a concept created in the mind of an anti-white woman named Peggy McIntosh. Basically she extrapolated her own experiences in life and put them on to all white people. One of her examples is "I'm white so I can get this article published". Have you ever had an article published, if not, you have never been a beneficiary of white privilege. Oh wait...that's incorrect, because you see if a magazine has white models in the articles and advertisements that is "white privilege, as we take it for granted that the models are white because that is how society was "set up" to benefit white people. If you go to Japan the majority of magazines will feature Asian models (in particular Japanese) this is NOT an example of Asian privilege because races other than white are completely immune to preference or privilege for reasons nobody can answer. Basically what the concept of "white privilege" is, is an attempt to sully any achievement any white person has ever made because they didn't do it fairly, they structured society to make it beneficial to them. In white privilege curriculum the teachers as well as students of color are supposed to brow beat the white students into submission and admit all of their achievements and that of their parents is a fluke, wholly built upon society's structuring to keep people of color down and to artificially inflate the successes of white people. They aren't talking about real systems like Jim Crow or slavery, they're talking about things that all societies do, like have magazines made by people who use pictures that best represent the majority of their readership. GQ has a lot of white readers, the majority of their subscribers are white males, so the majority of pictures are of white females. You could argue GQ is misogynistic by the way they portray women, but they aren't using white women because they are seeking to hold anyone down or because they refuse to represent people of color. It's a market they are pandering to. Just like you're not going to go to India and see a great deal of white people, black people or Japanese represented in their magazines, popular TV shows or mainstream news broadcasts. The majority will be Indian. The creator of white privilege, Peggy McIntosh is an extremely far left anti-white activist. She calls herself anti-racist, but that's a joke, as her entire activism is based solely on attacking white people, no other race is ever critiqued by her (I guess because she's white she doesn't want to be seen as saying anything critical about a member of a different race). Nearly all of the "evidence" for white privilege is completely subjective and arbitrary, like the examples in the answers above mine. All of them are anecdotal and situational or simply completely biased and absurd like commenter "sbbb's" example. Most of the proponents of "white privilege" that are people of color are extremely racist, you will rarely see a proponent of white privilege that has even a modicum of respect for white people, but in their minds this is justified because they know of white privilege and the only way to combat it is with the reduction of white influence and the supremacy of their (whatever race they happen to be) influence. In courses on white privilege if the class is multi-racial and includes blacks, Asians, latinos, whites and arabs the non-whites will all agree that white people are the problem, but they will not agree on which of their groups should have more power, they argue amongst themselves about that. I have a degree in communications, we had to take a language and diversity class that incorporated the critical race theory of "white privilege". I can tell you that the end result of the class was as intended, to create animosity towards white people in general. I think it's secondary purpose was to create solidarity between all non-white groups but that didn't happen in my class, they fought among each other as to which of their races deserves to hold more power.
2013-10-16 19:11:05 UTC
White supremacy duh. So are you suggesting that other races do what whites did to get it that wouldn't bode well for white people lmfao smh.


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