White privilege, are you guilty?

ALAYMAN said:
I had a coworker whose daughter was attending Liberty University about 10 years ago. He told me that she came back claiming that some of her professors at Liberty were teaching the notion that white people are privileged. I challenged him on that thinking that there's no way Liberty had bought into that sort of Woke ideology, particularly way back then when it was just getting traction. Surely they hadn't jumped on board I thought. He never backed down and gave me a few examples but I don't remember at this time what they were. I have nieces and nephews that are now in their late 20s and 30s have bought into this bunk. What I have observed that is legitimate as far as privilege goes over the years is a chasm and burden caused by economic disparity. People who don't have money, regardless of skin color, often have a harder life and and greater inability to avail themselves of the privileges of life afforded to those who have power and persuasion through income.
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Yes...I've had friends come back from there believing this hogwash as well. I stopped supporting Liberty years ago, when Falwell first started going off the rails. I knew it was coming...and it has, as has been evidenced by his son's behaviour and dismissal.
 
AverageJoe said:
just because some socialist African American, Asian, or Latino is too lazy to work for what they have, or to educate themselves enough to get themselves out of the gutter isn't my problem.
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Not Asians. There's a reason the acronym "BIPOC" (Black and Indigenous People of Colour) excludes peoples of south or southeast Asian descent. They come to the West, work hard, and succeed. That makes them "white adjacent," that is, honorary white people.
 
Ransom said:
Not Asians. There's a reason the acronym "BIPOC" (Black and Indigenous People of Colour) excludes peoples of south or southeast Asian descent. They come to the West, work hard, and succeed. That makes them "white adjacent," that is, honorary white people.
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THAT I did not know...Yow...
 
Ransom said:
Not Asians. There's a reason the acronym "BIPOC" (Black and Indigenous People of Colour) excludes peoples of south or southeast Asian descent. They come to the West, work hard, and succeed. That makes them "white adjacent," that is, honorary white people.
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Very true...I misspoke there.
 
I read the Robin De'Angelo book White Fragility. In it, she argues that every single white person is a racist and every single Non black person is a beneficiary of White Privilege.
It is a ridiculous book, but is being taught in churches and graduate schools.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: DiAngelo, Robin: 9780141990569: Amazon.com: Books

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Bob Jones V said:
I read the Robin De'Angelo book White Fragility. In it, she argues that every single white person is a racist and every single Non black person is a beneficiary of White Privilege.
It is a ridiculous book, but is being taught in churches and graduate schools.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: DiAngelo, Robin: 9780141990569: Amazon.com: Books

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism [DiAngelo, Robin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
www.amazon.com
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This may indeed be the case. But, it's a ludicrous hypothesis either way. Blacks are just as racist as whites can be, or any other person for that matter.
 
Bob Jones V said:
I read the Robin De'Angelo book White Fragility. In it, she argues that every single white person is a racist and every single Non black person is a beneficiary of White Privilege.
It is a ridiculous book, but is being taught in churches and graduate schools.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: DiAngelo, Robin: 9780141990569: Amazon.com: Books

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism [DiAngelo, Robin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
www.amazon.com
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I used to regularly say (and still strongly believe to be true) that I affirm with great gusto the motto that MLKjr espoused about the content of a man's character rather than the color of skin, but De'Angelo and her tribe simply said that such appropriation(s) from crackers like me is just further proof of white privilege and racism😒
 
ALAYMAN said:
I used to regularly say (and still strongly believe to be true) that I affirm with great gusto the motto that MLKjr espoused about the content of a man's character rather than the color of skin, but De'Angelo and her tribe simply said that such appropriation(s) from crackers like me is just further proof of white privilege and racism😒
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Malcolm X, Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg...all racists. Should I go on?
 
Bob Jones V said:
I read the Robin De'Angelo book White Fragility. In it, she argues that every single white person is a racist and every single Non black person is a beneficiary of White Privilege.
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The corollary to "all white people are racist" is that it is impossible for any non-white person to be racist against whites.

Meanwhile, the other bestselling race grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, would take issue with that: "When someone says Black people can’t be racist because Black people don’t have 'institutional power,' they are flouting reality" (Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, ch. 11).

Maybe we can get him and DiAngelo to settle their differences in the Thunderdome, and kill two birds with one stone.
 
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Ransom said:
The corollary to "all white people are racist" is that it is impossible for any non-white person to be racist against whites.
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The Myth of Reverse Racism
While assumptions and stereotypes about white people do exist, this is considered racial prejudice, not racism. Racial prejudice refers to a set of discriminatory or derogatory attitudes based on assumptions derived from perceptions about race and/or skin colour. Thus, racial prejudice can indeed be directed at white people (e.g., “White people can’t dance”) but is not considered racism because of the systemic relationship to power. When backed with power, prejudice results in acts of discrimination and oppression against groups or individuals. In Canada, white people hold this cultural power due to Eurocentric modes of thinking, rooted in colonialism, that continue to reproduce and privilege whiteness. It is whiteness that has the power to define the terms of racialized others’ existence. Tim Wise explains how, for white individuals,
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voicecrying said:
I was told that recently. Of course, it's because the woke crowd is redefining what racism means to fit their purposes. Racism didn't mean that 20 years ago.
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Thanks for saying that bro, because in my comfortable rural lifestyle and relationships I don't have as much contact with elements of multi-cultural trappings as I did moreso in my youth, and I don't remember the current definition of racism being predominant in my youth. Just another example of the usage of propaganda and language to redefine core principles of truth.
 
ALAYMAN said:
Thanks for saying that bro, because in my comfortable rural lifestyle and relationships I don't have as much contact with elements of multi-cultural trappings as I did moreso in my youth, and I don't remember the current definition of racism being predominant in my youth. Just another example of the usage of propaganda and language to redefine core principles of truth.
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My family gets to deal with multi-cultural things all the time. I have an African American great niece...I have two great nieces who are hispanic, as is their father, my nephew in law. I have a brother in law who is Jewish. I am part Native American. It's not hard for us at all! :)
 
ALAYMAN said:
The Myth of Reverse Racism
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Yes, the currently fashionable redefinition of racism to mean "prejudice plus power." That is a useful stipulative definition used in certain contexts in the social sciences, but activists are trying to push it into common usage, over and above the commonly accepted "dictionary" definitions, which are generally something like either "the belief that race is the primary determinant of a person's moral worth, leading to some ethnicities being superior to others," or "prejudice or discrimination on the basis of race." Get into a debate online with these people, and they'll usually handwave away the dictionary definition and disparage you for using it.

But if the definition of racism is "prejudice plus power," then how can all white people be racist? That definition requires both; if I (about as Anglo-Saxon as you can get) pointed out that I don't harbour racial prejudice, then by definitiion I cannot be racist. My opponent would have to redefine racism on the fly if he wanted to remain committed to the all-whites-are-racist rhetoric--and at that point, the jig is up.

The problem with the term "reverse racism" is that it assumes racism always flows from white people to others, by default. "Reverse racism" doesn't exist, not for the reasons given in that article, but because individuals in group A may be racist against group B, or vice versa, and you can insert literally any two ethnicities into groups A and B. There's just racism, and it points in all directions.

In fact, I'd say it's even racist to say certain peoples can't be racist. It's disparages their humanity to say they're incapable of the full range of human emotions.
 
Huk said:
The irony of all these “equity” and “disadvantaged POC” organizations is that inevitably, the leaders of these organizations almost always pack up, move into rich white suburbia, and live like fat cats (usually with fraud and stealing following them). https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna46481
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We've had many like that in our area...and most of them are being prosecuted now! Thank God!
 
It's just how the left operates. They have to divide and conquer so that they can gain complete control. Racist implications towards one group or another are ALWAYS involved in this process.
 
It was defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition 1989) as "[t]he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race"; the same dictionary termed racism a synonym of racialism: "belief in the superiority of a particular race".
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In 1989, it seems reverse racism would be true since reverse racism is whites being treated in a way based on their whiteness.
 
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