Opinion Why are people angry at white privilege being real?

[21 Savage]

Correlation is not causation. Do you understand that? You are going to have to do more than pull up a graph from Gawker if you want to be taken seriously.

getting baited this hard

 

[InternetHero]

Chinese "rent" white people because people look up to westerners.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.people/index.html

The Western mode of culture mimics what Chinese in their cultural orientation see as "successful."

IE - getting rich, being upwardly mobile, and for those who leave the Mainland, a sense of liberty apart from the direct clan. (As well as some ancient ideas of beauty.)

The Meiji restoration saw the same process in Japan, in fact, it still does, however, these cultures all start to back away from the ideas to enforce their own sense of hyper-nationalism at some point... in a balance that is much more delicate than we can understand, due to the overwhelming influences of Confucianism, Daoism, to get or lose that face, and of course ying-yang principles.

It is not to be "white" it is to find a way, a group orientation that has a... reputation... for being successful.

Why? Because by definition Asian cultures did not accept judging a man by his character, they adhere to the type of shame culture that "white privilege" is a naked attempt to return to. The idea of group reputation is almost always regressive when applied in this manner.

 

[Starman]

Again, correlation is not causation. If it were, that must necessarily mean that Asian men have the most "privilege" of all, correct?

 

[Bamboozled]

@Bamboozled

Explain this you racist turd

You're an asshole for assuming I'm racist.

Maybe if you had a community where 2 parents were involved instead of having a 73% chance of being in a single parent household you'd learn about things like proper work ethic and social skills that make you a better hire.

 

[Fawlty]

A major part of white privilege is acting indignant about the concept of white privilege.

 

[zebby23]

Correlation is not causation. Do you understand that? You are going to have to do more than pull up a graph from Gawker if you want to be taken seriously.

So because you don't like the study it's from Gawker?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

If an ugly chick and a pretty girl, both work equally hard in life i can assure you that the pretty girl will most likely get more opportunities just because she is pretty.

White privilege in the end is about aesthetics.

A more poignant example would be if the ugly chick were a superior worker.
I agree.

 

[White Whale]

So I provide an example of white privilege and you refuse to accept it?

Why was this man’s YouTube channel shutdown?

https://www.colinflaherty.com/

 

[snakedafunky]

More anecdotal evidence.

You can compare shitty news stories, the people involved are not the same and shouldn't be treated as if they are the same. I know you want to categorize and group people so it's easy to fit into your identity politics and your socialist agenda, but I don't play that game.

You don't play that game by categorizing him as a socialist.
Makes sense.

 

[Starman]

So because you don't like the study it's from Gawker?

The image you pulled is from Gawker. Check the image address. Not that I blame you for deflecting from your original claim, which is weak and baseless.

 

[Bamboozled]

You don't play that game by categorizing him as a socialist.
Makes sense.

He is a socialist, the whole concept of white privilege is a socialist premise. Oppressor vs the oppressed. That is socialist. That's not identity politics.

 

[Steve-French]

 

[zebby23]

Again, correlation is not causation. If it were, that must necessarily mean that Asian men have the most "privilege" of all, correct?

Maybe Asian men do have the most privilege. It's conceivable, just like it's conceivable that whites have privilege over blacks

 

[Lord Commander Palis]

It's not real, that's the starter.

The whole idea of white privilege is ridiculous as the basic foundation of it is that whites are completely clueless and oblivious to it! White people don't know any better and or such sinful white devils of their own gluttony!! oh boohoo LOL! What a sick joke people actually believe.

 

[Starman]

Maybe Asian men do have the most privilege. It's conceivable, just like it's conceivable that whites have privilege over blacks

Anything you conceive is conceivable. That doesn't make it true.

 

[Lord Commander Palis]

lol at posting dumb shit on a message board and reacting like this when people point it out to you

Whatever helps you sleep at night

oh man I sleep great in my california king with my beautiful latina wife.

stay salty kiddo.

 

[zebby23]

The image you pulled is from Gawker. Check the image address. Not that I blame you for deflecting from your original claim, which is weak and baseless.

It's actually from the Economic Policy Institute but ok

 

[Anung Un Rama]

So I provide an example of white privilege and you refuse to accept it?

Michael Brown's achievements in science class were so underrated.
I know the point you're trying to make, and you're correct, but the examples you've used aren't the best.

 

[InternetHero]

None, why do people get angry at the fact that being born into a dominant culture in a particular society is called privilege?

Specially when the society itself was stratified based on observable phenotypes.

This is a large academic question, but I'll talk about the clear linguistic problems first of all.

White: A state of skin pigmentation, of which, is not really tied to the behavior in the United States anymore.

A black man living "white style" will tend to be as successful or more successful, and then in reductive human behavior his fellow "black" people will resent and reject that.

Privilege: In English language is meant to have the feeling that something is gifted to you through no effort of your own. Which in the case of American culture (where a lot of this nonsense always arises) this is a special pejorative, and automatically going to "shake jimmies" among those whose pre and post Revolutionary ideas created, and then fought for the very ideas of liberal politics. (And then later racial equality.)

Cultural Advantages

Cultural Benefits

Cultural Opportunities

A phrase like this would disarm the divide that has been created to, and has as even you good sir have noted, duly "trolled" the right.

The left is influenced as well, for it allows them to have an easy group orientation enemy.

Instead of thinking about the question, they can be triggered into equating skin tone with disparity.

Magical for voting, turmoil, and animosity where so much was done to heal, not good at all for English, ideas, or understanding each other.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

So wouldn’t that make it easier for those with no obstacles in their way?

Everyone has obstacles in their way but you must acknowledge some have more than others