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In reply to the discussion: How has use of the term "white privilege" harmed you? [View all]El_Johns
(1,805 posts)272. You didn't answer my question.
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just like fight club, the first benefit of white privilege is being able to pretend
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#3
You seem to think I require your "education". I don't. I'm perfectly aware that "minorities" are
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#255
you got me there. i really don't see how use of the term "white privilege" causes harm
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#8
Bush's Prvileged Life Is Massively Exacerbated By Factors Other Than His Race
ProfessorGAC
Jan 2014
#53
Not at all...trying to make the poster understand that they know what privilege means...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#70
and a stupid black kid who did drugs and can't speak english well but has wealthy family
JI7
Jan 2014
#61
So you are saying I should never take GWB's privileged status into discussion
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#17
Yes, I'm certain you do. Self-awareness doesn't seem high on your list of good traits.
Shandris
Jan 2014
#65
I am self aware enough to know that I am White and I am lucky because of it
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#81
Only that the use of it reveals the douchebags among us who are deliberately obtuse about it.
Starry Messenger
Jan 2014
#10
Odds are that you'll have the last word, having lived 5 years longer than me.
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2014
#137
White Male privilege - if you want to call life expectancy a privilege....
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#143
NO I am saying IF you want to believe (I don't ) that life expectancy...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#145
"Or do only White people get to decide how disadvantaged Black people are in your world?"
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2014
#230
Are White people in the position to decide IF Black people are disadvantaged?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#231
Did you finish looking at the picture? Did you need more than 4 minutes to determine
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#242
Here's a picture for you Jeff...since you don't believe in "White Male Privilege"
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#232
Unfortunately, there are a few like that.....not so much on here, but more of Tumblr.....
AverageJoe90
Jan 2014
#157
How about the fact the s/he lives in that neighborhood in the first place. No white privelege there.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jan 2014
#82
I know right....I am sure GWB thinks there is no racism in his White neighborhood too!
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#84
There used to be an area just outside Atlanta that was basically 100% white. I guarantee you
Hoyt
Jan 2014
#55
race is not an issue in 98% white neighborhoods *by design*. being surrounded by white folks is
bettyellen
Jan 2014
#117
because until it doesn't exist it needs to be lectured on....over and over...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#39
Then why are there people right here on this thread in DU that deny its existence...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#91
But "guilt" is a strawman to begin with. Not one person on here has said white people should feel
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#297
for YOU......if you weren't White in your area...it would most certainly be an "issue"
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#41
I refuse to allow people to say I'm privileged when I'm poor as dirt because of my zip code.
ProgressSaves
Jan 2014
#50
The only reason you're able to "set aside" those things is because you're white. Just saying.
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#299
i would wager that non-white people living in such areas might disagree with you nt
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#58
No, but I know that I, as a solitary individual, haven't really benefitted, not directly, anyway....
AverageJoe90
Jan 2014
#283
"Then you benefited because everyone else HAS!" I hate to say this, but.....
AverageJoe90
Jan 2014
#290
I am a woman.....do you think I have NEVER experienced sexism in my life?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#293
Re: "I am a woman.....do you think I have NEVER experienced sexism in my life?"
AverageJoe90
Jan 2014
#295
Sometimes you have to see it with your own eyes before it sinks in. Nothing wrong with that
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#301
Perhaps the question is what, specifically, can the individual white male do about it?
Orrex
Jan 2014
#114
serious question. anyone with half a brain knows white priviledge and male priviledge exist. so,
dionysus
Jan 2014
#245
Exactly. They never have any answer to that question. Because the whole point of the modern
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#182
I'm supposed to look at the row for just whites and ignore the row for Asians ("minorities")?
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#265
Some people just cannot seem to see past the nose on their own faces...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#262
answered...what part of those over 40 "other than While male" have less chance than you do...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#274
No, you didn't answer my question, which has to do with why the same evidence (income) is
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#275
Then why are you using it as evidence for white privilege? If it's not good evidence, better not
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#278
and I didn't say it wasn't good evidence...I said it was ONE not the ONLY evidence.
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#281
if you don't say or describe the term, then you'd be left to describing causes
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#54
Being lectured to about privilege by privileged little snots raises my blood pressure.
Comrade Grumpy
Jan 2014
#83
then why do we have folks right on this thread even here on DU that denies it exists?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#93
but to deny that it is STILL in existence DOESN'T change it....does it?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#131
Still on the "opening doors" thing, eh? That joke was old hat a year ago...
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#302
I think the point is to recognize that some people don't enjoy the same privileges
athena
Jan 2014
#108
So you're saying that before people will donate or volunteer to do anything for "minorities"
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#185
It hasn't "harmed" me, as an individual, no.....but liberals as a whole, I'm afraid, haven't been...
AverageJoe90
Jan 2014
#109
In an of itself, not harmful. However when it is accompanied with an implication
Glassunion
Jan 2014
#112
Wrong, because describing the effects of racism against nonwhites is not insulting
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#123
So exactly how are you an "ally" if you deny the existence of systemic racism?
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#304
Middle-class black people can still be followed around in stores, profiled by law enforcement,
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#337
I didn't say that. Didn't I expressly say that a lot of white people's lives just plain suck?
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#340
I think he's more saying that people are more receptive if you don't start the conversation
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#186
Yeah, I suppose us white guys are used to having our personal feelings catered to.
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#303
How does the fact that a lot of white people's lives suck, do anything to negate the existence
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#335
Sorry, I'm not really into avoiding discussion of important issues just to spare people's feelings.
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#336
DU discussions about it cost me a trip to the hardware store, two tylenol, and an ice pack.
LeftyMom
Jan 2014
#136
And the next upper-class white person who lectures me about white privilege can come &
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#187
What do you do for a living, what does your spouse or partner do, and what did your parents
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#192
Would you also like my social security number, blood type, mother's maiden name and home address?
LeftyMom
Jan 2014
#193
So what do you think your chances are of improving your lot in life versus's the other 40% are?
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#244
As a white woman, my expected lifespan is actually higher. Though possibly I won't achieve
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#268
I imagine acknowledging a higher degree of privilege is shameful to many people..
LanternWaste
Jan 2014
#199
When I applied for a beer driver job in Idaho in the mid 80's and got it, I can
brewens
Jan 2014
#153
Why is one group allowed to try and impose a list of banned words and not another?
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Jan 2014
#159
Its harm to me is the inverse of the benefit you get from using it. Do you like apples?
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2014
#162
you didn't answer why you accused another poster of being wealthy or upper middle class?
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#226
Exactly. People understandably focus on their own struggles, but being ignorant of the bigger
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#305
No WE ARE disagreeing...if you are White..YOU have privilege..it has nothing to do with money...
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#318
Actually, I'm happy. Your posts remind me that most people on DU aren't like you.
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#285
I didn't say, and I don't think "whites are evil". Drop the victim act. Grow up.
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#288
Yet the people at the very top of the income pyramid are overwhelmingly white.
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#331
the use of the term on DU has caused me extreme irritation, which lead to stress/high BP
La Lioness Priyanka
Jan 2014
#229
It's made me realize I was born on third base rather than hitting a triple. That's a bummer
Recursion
Jan 2014
#260
I wouldn't go that far. For most individual white people it's probably more like being born on first
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#307
Very true. Though I guess I never had that "luxury," partly due to having so many nonwhite friends
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#310
I think it is possible that the term feeds misunderstanding of what it is trying to convey
TheKentuckian
Jan 2014
#269
The problem with downplaying collective racism is that the next step is to blame nonwhite people
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#309
The problem with flipping discrimination around into white privilege
Waiting For Everyman
Jan 2014
#326
Telling people what to think is mostly pointless, true. But I'll still express my opinion
nomorenomore08
Jan 2014
#334