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Topic	is this white privilege?
nemu 08/22/18 8:00:34 PM #37:	YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... nemu posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... nemu posted... Because you're using a horrible, slightly nonsensical example. and what's nonsensical about it please point out any part other than "the manager would not do this." You can't tell me that. It literally happened to me. Because you cannot attribute the idea of white privilege to a case of three people. It cannot be applied on an individual level. The boss being any other race would change the narrative. The boss being white but being of the SJW mindset/hating one of the workers and thus being biased/etc would completely change the narrative. As I said, it is the manager being biased in that scenario and nothing more. Hmm I guess I can see your point and I accept that it's valid However I think this kind of situation would logically occur more often than not, because there are more white people in leadership roles in the US workplace which would let you assume, logically, that they would relate to their white employees more, no? Which illustrates a kind of white privilege, no? See, this is where the whole X privilege narrative begins to get dumb. All in all, any majority grouping is going to have bias towards another group. That is not something inherent to while people/men/straight people, etc. If you want to say group X as a whole will likely experience more benefits than groups Y and Z due to their collective being larger, that is not inaccurate. If you want to say groups Y and Z will likely experience more hardships than X as a whole, that is not inaccurate. It's this insistence of attaching this very specific label that is the issue. The idea of white privilege being a thing that is quantifiable is not itself a problem, but what people want to imply when they use that term. So, if you have a demographic where you're more likely to have white coworkers and white bosses, then I would agree on a whole such people will have a higher likelihood of facing potential racial problems. The only thing I would not agree on that it is a problem that can really be solved ever, and that it is something inherently "wrong" with a certain grouping. <cite>nemu posted [p:907373170] in is this wh... [t:76927811]...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote><cite>nemu posted...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote><cite>nemu posted...</cite> <quote>Because you're using a horrible, slightly nonsensical example. </quote> and what's nonsensical about it please point out any part other than "the manager would not do this." You can't tell me that. It literally happened to me.</quote> Because you cannot attribute the idea of white privilege to a case of three people. It cannot be applied on an individual level. The boss being any other race would change the narrative. The boss being white but being of the SJW mindset/hating one of the workers and thus being biased/etc would completely change the narrative. As I said, it is the manager being biased in that scenario and nothing more.</quote> Hmm I guess I can see your point and I accept that it's valid However I think this kind of situation would logically occur more often than not, because there are more white people in leadership roles in the US workplace which would let you assume, logically, that they would relate to their white employees more, no? Which illustrates a kind of white privilege, no?</quote> See, this is where the whole X privilege narrative begins to get dumb. All in all, any majority grouping is going to have bias towards another group. That is not something inherent to while people/men/straight people, etc. If you want to say group X as a whole will likely experience more benefits than groups Y and Z due to their collective being larger, that is not inaccurate. If you want to say groups Y and Z will likely experience more hardships than X as a whole, that is not inaccurate. It's this insistence of attaching this very specific label that is the issue. The idea of white privilege being a thing that is quantifiable is not itself a problem, but what people want to imply when they use that term. So, if you have a demographic where you're more likely to have white coworkers and white bosses, then I would agree on a whole such people will have a higher likelihood of facing potential racial problems. The only thing I would not agree on that it is a problem that can really be solved ever, and that it is something inherently "wrong" with a certain grouping.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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