How has white privilege helped you in your life?

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Nah but for real, Challenger is right.

You don't see Asians looting and robbing and blaming white people. Even though they arguably, had it just as bad as blacks in america. Same as the Irish.
Bullshit. Years of slavery and institutionalized racism has been way worse for black people than any other race. To say otherwise is just ignorance of basic American history. Blacks were treated like shit for the majority of Americas existence. And that was just under the law.


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Nah but for real, Challenger is right.

You don't see Asians looting and robbing and blaming white people. Even though they arguably, had it just as bad as blacks in america. Same as the Irish.
Bullshit. Years of slavery and institutionalized racism has been way worse for black people than any other race. To say otherwise is just ignorance of basic American history. Blacks were treated like shit for the majority of Americas existence. And that was just under the law.

Irish and Asian immigrants were basically slaves long after slavery was abolished, and 70 years ago we literally rounded up Japanese and Chinese Americans and put them in camps because we didn't trust them. It's not a pissing content, but it is apparent that Asians assimilated much faster than blacks, despite institutional racism for both groups.


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Nah but for real, Challenger is right.

You don't see Asians looting and robbing and blaming white people. Even though they arguably, had it just as bad as blacks in america. Same as the Irish.
Bullshit. Years of slavery and institutionalized racism has been way worse for black people than any other race. To say otherwise is just ignorance of basic American history. Blacks were treated like shit for the majority of Americas existence. And that was just under the law.

Irish and Asian immigrants were basically slaves long after slavery was abolished, and 70 years ago we literally rounded up Japanese and Chinese Americans and put them in camps because we didn't trust them. It's not a pissing content, but it is apparent that Asians assimilated much faster than blacks, despite institutional racism for both groups.
Since when was being "basically slaves" comparable to actual organized slavery against blacks for a century? It's hard to compare rounding up Asians in WWII to the legal lynching of blacks and common assault on blacks during the same time. Any historian will agree that blacks were the bottom tier of American society for the majority of its existence. Let's think about it, we know the law did nothing to prosecute the common murders against blacks, we have a century of slavery, blacks were denied equal rights and had enforced segregation another century following its abolishment, we have clear evidence of socioeconomic discrepancies, blacks are commonly harassed by law enforcement even today, etc.

Yeah you can argue it's not a pissing contest, but what you can't argue is the slew of facts in history that show how blacks were one of the most mistreated ethnic groups.
Last Edit: October 28, 2015, 02:09:24 AM by Lord Starch


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The Irish are white. Asians that came over were artisans and educated. Both of those things are massive leg-ups.


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"Why do black people always make it about race?" These are the kinds of moments that threaten to ruin my day

This guy is a fucking pussy


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"Ornate chandeliers suspended from a vaulted ceiling lit the spacious chamber; Jack tilted his gaze overhead and noticed how far away they were.  His thoughts wove around those bright lights, like a dance of ether masses spiraling in precious unison. Why must we try to clutch desperately for the mere threads of this world when we can clasp onto a tapestry of untold magnificence beyond this plane of existence?"
Not being white probably helped me get into a good college


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>gets asked to define white privilege after provoking an argument
>"OHMYGOD SO INFURIATING IM BASICALLY BEING ASKED TO DEMONSTRATE MY BUZZWORD OF THE DAY YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW THIS YOU WHITE DEVILS"

Why is it when you get to brass tacks with these people they always find some slippery sleight of hand to dodge the questions being asked? I mean, I guess he provided some semblance of an answer, but not before throwing a fucking temper tantrum about it.

I think the most infuriating thing is that white people are never asked to do anything about white privilege, just accept it and feel bad about it. And when asked to define it, the author throws out the pathetic analogy to asking a fish to describe water  -- we're so used to it we don't even see it. How convenient.
If white privilege is genuine, why the fuck would white people do anything about it?

Shit man, I want to make life easier for myself, not harder.
Empathy?

You know, that basic human emotion


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Yeah, nowhere across human history has anyone ever been seen giving up their own powers to help others

Except, like

Everywhere all the time


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If you think that Nietzche was all about only helping yourself and beating away every other person to achieve the Ultimate Asshole, then you need to reach more Nietzche


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That's easy.








it hasn't