http://www.vice.com/read/toure-talking-to-white-people-about-their-white-privilege-1021

A bit of a thought experiment, I guess. The comments are a lot more interesting than the article itself, I'd say.

It hasn't. Actually got turned down from a few great jobs because they straight up told me they were required to employee a minority.

Quote from: PSU on October 23, 2015, 01:31:29 PM

It hasn't. Actually got turned down from a few great jobs because they straight up told me they were required to employee a minority.

Pretty sure they're not allowed to say that.

I know people in high places in a lot of places around here from my family. The same place that turned me down, ended up helping me get my current job tho. So I wasn't too mad.

Once heard a CEO of a fortune 500 company go on the most "N word" laden racist rant I've ever seen. Hilarious.

I honestly can't think of any situation where that supposed invisible privilege gave me a leg up. Anywhere.

Something to consider though. Thinking about the tattoo comment.

Let's say you were to take 50 different other white guys with red hair and different tattoos. And shoot them out to that job. How many of them would get the job?

Statistically speaking, not all of them would get the job. Some of them might likely be turned down because of their tattoos, depending on the style.

So would it really be fair to label that incident as white priviledge? What if the guy just had a good personality to match and it's what sealed the deal over his tattoos and otherwise strange appearance?

There are always other factors in things.

Which is why I practically hate when the word privilege is thrown around like some insult and shame train bullshit.

The point of that one is that a black guy with tattoos and dreds would be seen as an unqualified thug, whereas it's seen as artsy in a white guy.

Quote from: Deadtrap on October 23, 2015, 01:50:41 PM

Something to consider though. Thinking about the tattoo comment.

Let's say you were to take 50 different other white guys with red hair and different tattoos. And shoot them out to that job. How many of them would get the job?

Statistically speaking, not all of them would get the job. Some of them might likely be turned down because of their tattoos, depending on the style.

So would it really be fair to label that incident as white priviledge? What if the guy just had a good personality to match and it's what sealed the deal over his tattoos and otherwise strange appearance?

There are always other factors in things.

Which is why I practically hate when the word privilege is thrown around like some insult and shame train bullshit.

The point of that one is that a black guy with tattoos and dreds would be seen as an unqualified thug, whereas it's seen as artsy in a white guy.

And you're seriously not taking into account that a lot of black thugs sport that style? Dreds and tattoos are seen a lot with gang members and it's practically a part of gang culture these days.

Once again, I'm not saying that just because a black guy sports dreds and tattoos means he's a part of gang culture. But you can't deny that a lot of black gang culture sports those looks.

Quote from: Verbatim on October 23, 2015, 02:03:03 PM

The fact that I can browse forums like this without being sexually harassed in some way, jokingly or otherwise

Hi.

you've never asked me for dick pics

I can't think of anything, but part of me thinks you don't have to be conscious to have a privilege. It could be something I've always taken for granted and never thought about.

>Vice

   "White Privilege" has undoubtedly helped me to a certain degree at points in my life, however its exposed me to ridicule in others.
   
  Living in a very white catholic neighborhood  meant all the white kids attended the catholic schools and the families who weren't catholic and the minorities, in my case south Asians, all attended the local public school. My experience being one of 4 white male students of 100 (in my grade), in a very much Sikh dominated school was that I should try and remain as small as possible. The fear wasn't of physical abuse, however it could and did escalate to that rather quickly, but I was more afraid of acting out of line culturally to what they were expecting of me. I was forced to learn how to speak certain phrases in punjabi, or learn about their religious traditions to avoid saying anything that they could deem "offensive". Or always being afraid to stand up for myself, my ideas or my beliefs simply because they were contradictory to the cultural standard the Indian classmates followed.

   As for this having to do with "white privilege" I honestly believe that although this was in elementary school ,l it now speaks loudly to me of the level of racism caused by insecurity every human is facing. We all fear the unknown, we all fear the implications of our actions, or the shattering of our beliefs, and we are quick to extinguish anything contrary to what we are accustomed to. "White privilege" isn't as cut-and-dry as, "Being white makes life easier." What it means is that its ingrained in us to believe white people set a standard and everyone else is the unknown trying to achieve the standard.
   
   I happen to be a white male with no criminal record, decent school grades, strong work ethic on the job, and I'm friendly and conversational. From that sentence, the things I think have the biggest impact on my life and how I am treated isn't, "I am a white male" its the characteristics that follow it. And the reason these characteristics are the ones I picked specifically, are because these are the ones that society has taught us to value most, and historically we've been told to believe that people of color don't exhibit these characteristics. So as a society we're scared to open our minds to the idea that everyone has the ability to achieve the same things, act the same way, and communicate equally.We have yet to grasp the fact that skin color isn't an identifier of anything other than the level of melanin in our bodies. White privilege is present and its simply an extension of the closed-mindedness, and fear of the unknown or changing that every human is a sufferer of.

 So although I happen to be a beneficiary of "white privilege" how it has effected me in my life, is through subjecting me to racial discrimination from my classmates, and allowing me to see how as a whole all our racist beliefs stem from our ingrained insecurities.

Sry for errors.

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Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on October 23, 2015, 02:31:35 PM

My white privilege helps me out by preventing me from commenting on the way it is socially acceptable for a black man to write about the experiences of white people when a white man writing about the experiences of black people would be labelled ignorant.

To be fair, the article is specifically asking white people to talk about their lives; he's not doing it for them.

He sure isn't afraid to comment on them, or select the ones most consistent with his worldview to publish

You're right, I didn't even see it like that.

This is fuckin' stupid

The whole concept of "white privilege" is that it's a passive thing - that white people don't have to deal with some of the shit that minorities put up with. It's not as though being white actively helps you in America, it just doesn't hinder you.

Seriously, this is dumb.