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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:15 PM Original message |
THIS IS YOUR NATION ON WHITE PRIVILEGE By Tim Wise |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. How do you explain all the white people who can't get away with crap like that? |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Like most white people |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I agree... |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I've met plenty of racists |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. People are taught to hate... |
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TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 01:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. So my niece who hates the ant that bit her learned that where? |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. You don't get it... |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 06:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Me too |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. Perhaps that's true for the people that YOU know. It isn't for the people that I'm referring to. |
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psychmommy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 07:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. it's only class if you're not a person of color. |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 08:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. And when cops did that to . . . |
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psychmommy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. if there is no race. people will find something- |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. But why? |
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psychmommy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. oh darling just using that statement is proof in and of itself |
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Manchurian (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 03:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
41. You're kidding right? |
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endthewar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 08:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Tim Wise is actually an interesting intellectual on this subject matter |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 08:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Well, I would agree wholeheartedly with that |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Maybe its because they're not fundamentalist |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I was raised in the same fundy church denomination... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Each is used to reinforce the other. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 12:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. This is too sadly true! |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. oh don't you know poor white out of wedlock babies are "blessings"? |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's the only reason this election isn't 90/10 right now. |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 08:43 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Not true. Bush/Gore, Bush/Kerry had nothing to do with racism |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-17-08 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
11. Racist nonsense. |
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GOPBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
15. This is so fucking true. I don't judge people for things like that, but if it were the Obama's |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
19. That's what I'm sayin' |
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lynnertic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
20. I've seen this posted 3x in the last two days and my response is the same: |
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Kweli4Real (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
21. As an African-American man .... |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
22. I'm sorry but I just don't see any "unity" with these kinds of posts. |
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endthewar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
39. Expand your mind: |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
23. Some of the responses to this article should serve as a reminder about how entrenched... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 01:36 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Bingo! |
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Kweli4Real (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 05:28 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. He Gets It!!!!!!! |
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SteveM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
30. There is a whiff of synthetic absolution about this post... |
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endthewar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. If you listen to Tim Wise's speeches and read his essays |
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SteveM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. I'll watch out for more of his stuff, but the "white privilege" argument is a turn-off... |
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endthewar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:24 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Wise's privilege argument essentially boils down to |
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Manchurian (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. The Psychological Wages of Whiteness |
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SteveM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I've read and heard these arguments for 50 years... |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
37. This essay has gotten lots of mileage. Been emailed all over, too. //nt |
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PfcHammer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-22-08 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
43. This is like the looters argument on steroids. |
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