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In reply to the discussion: Study: White people react to evidence of white privilege by claiming greater personal hardships [View all]jalan48
(13,841 posts)32. Makes sense.
It's almost impossible to know what other people go through until you have the same experience.
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Study: White people react to evidence of white privilege by claiming greater personal hardships [View all]
KamaAina
Sep 2015
OP
Simply put, conservatives just aren't generally all that empathic and/or perceptive,
Zorra
Sep 2015
#9
denying white privilege is not just a conservative thing. look all over du and you'l see examples of
La Lioness Priyanka
Sep 2015
#11
i think liberals should stop pretending that they are not racist/dont see color etc.
La Lioness Priyanka
Sep 2015
#113
That post actually made me laugh out loud. Only "Conservative" white people do this
Number23
Sep 2015
#48
thousands of examples over the years. one complained two black coworkers were friends....
bettyellen
Sep 2015
#52
And he was completely serious. As if black people should't have friends or it's his loss, LOL.
bettyellen
Sep 2015
#91
i disagree with you. denying white privilege is almost as much a liberal thing as a conservative
La Lioness Priyanka
Sep 2015
#112
So true. Can you imagine the ridicule they must face when they fall in
Baitball Blogger
Sep 2015
#12
true but- 90% of the time people (and dictionaries!) happily admit words have more than one meaning
bettyellen
Sep 2015
#46
I get it, but when you are noting patterns of behavior it's a trap that is hard not to fall into...
bettyellen
Sep 2015
#58
well, if you were used to it as a kid, which happens.... maybe not. Most of the people who have
bettyellen
Sep 2015
#65
from what I recall it happens all the fucking time when they are kids- and they learn not to make a
bettyellen
Sep 2015
#90
Perhaps this is why President Obama has never once used the phrase "white privilege"
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#79
When one ideology is dedicated to furthering privilege why would that not have an effect?
jeff47
Sep 2015
#45
That is like saying "it is midnight and pitch black outside but the sun is shining"
randys1
Sep 2015
#28
I am Irish-American and think that people who use that as a deflection suck.
Starry Messenger
Sep 2015
#35
It's perceived as an attack for a number of reasons. Are you interested in why?
Scootaloo
Sep 2015
#55
It exists and I probably benefited from it at some point in my seven plus decades here in the US
tularetom
Sep 2015
#39
If anyone understands privilege, it's the good people at Stanford. nt
AppalachianAmerican
Sep 2015
#56
When a cop treats black people worse, I prefer to think of it as "racism" than "privilege".
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#66
Any time a cop treats a black person worse than he would a white person, that is racism.
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#74
That is so not true, go to Appalacia with Lisa Ling, lots of Americans are suffering there.
akbacchus_BC
Sep 2015
#92
Of course there are white people who are sufferering, for a variety of reasons
gollygee
Sep 2015
#95
Mostly the word is used by those who have no interest in having a productive discussion,
Nye Bevan
Sep 2015
#99