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bossjony
11/14/19 4:07:29 PM
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Well
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GarbageApe
11/14/19 4:08:17 PM
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it's not real

im white and im still poor
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dj1200
11/14/19 4:08:29 PM
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It exists. *shrug*

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bossjony
11/14/19 4:13:28 PM
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Lost_All_Senses
11/14/19 4:16:49 PM
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Lol. I don't like this conversation. People here are in their 30s+ and are already stuck in their ways.

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ArchiePeck
11/14/19 4:19:54 PM
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It exists, you would have to be very ignorant to deny it.
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nemu
11/14/19 4:20:09 PM
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If you're simply saying that white people on average have more advantages than most minorities in the United States, then that is an accurate definition. I don't like the terminology because it's one of those loaded words that inherently seems combative no matter how you utilize it. I think most of the people who do utilize it mean it to be combative. I think the whole discussion around it is typically disingenuous, and there is a fringe minority who use it in a racist manner.
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Wewillrocku
11/14/19 4:21:12 PM
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ArchiePeck posted...
It exists, you would have to be very ignorant to deny it.

no you wouldn't. you would just be a white person who isn't anglo. there are plenty of them.
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eston
11/14/19 4:22:02 PM
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ArchiePeck posted...
It exists, you would have to be very ignorant to deny it.

This tbqh
The problem is a lot of people don't seem to even understand what it means and take offense as though you are accusing them of something
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DoubleDare
11/14/19 4:23:13 PM
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Just some bullshit tryhard crap from the liberals to appear not racist.

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Crayon_Lover
11/14/19 4:23:19 PM
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I feel like it's less white privilege and more minority disadvantage
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bossjony
11/14/19 4:24:14 PM
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DoubleDare posted...
Just some bullshit tryhard crap from the liberals to appear not racist.
Lmao
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BuckVanHammer
11/14/19 4:25:32 PM
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eston posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
It exists, you would have to be very ignorant to deny it.

This tbqh
The problem is a lot of people don't seem to even understand what it means and take offense as though you are accusing them of something

yeah, i hear post number 2 every time i hear it come up...
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Wewillrocku
11/14/19 4:26:50 PM
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BuckVanHammer posted...
yeah, i hear post number 2 every time i hear it come up...

astonishing. people want their experiences to be heard when they are lumped in with other people.
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Lost_All_Senses
11/14/19 4:27:34 PM
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Crayon_Lover posted...
I feel like it's less white privilege and more minority disadvantage


Does splitting hairs like this help tho? Same shit. The idea is to level the playing field.

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PrettyBoyFloyd
11/14/19 4:27:37 PM
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I don't pay it no mind.

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ArchiePeck
11/14/19 4:29:33 PM
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Wewillrocku posted...
astonishing. people want their experiences to be heard when they are lumped in with other people.


No, the issue is those people clearly literally don't understand what it is. You can be poor with no job, no money and no wife or whatever, you still have forms of privilege. It's not a commentary on your material status. It's a status of not having automatic lifelong disadvantages based on who you are.
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pauIie
11/14/19 4:30:37 PM
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BuckVanHammer
11/14/19 4:30:42 PM
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Wewillrocku posted...
BuckVanHammer posted...
yeah, i hear post number 2 every time i hear it come up...

astonishing. people want their experiences to be heard when they are lumped in with other people.

complete disregard based solely on personal experience is willful ignorance or you just dont get it.
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Wewillrocku
11/14/19 4:31:31 PM
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ArchiePeck posted...
No, the issue is those people clearly literally don't understand what it is. You can be poor with no job, no money and no wife or whatever, you still have forms of privilege. It's not a commentary on your material status. It's a status of not having automatic lifelong disadvantages based on who you are.

literally! lol. and no wife? not sure how that comes into play.
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Funkydog
11/14/19 4:31:37 PM
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That it's definitely a thing, but doesn't mean white people can't be poor or suffer at the hands of the system. It fucks over everyone black, white or any other race if you don't have money/connections.

Still, certainly glad to have been a white woman at times, got me out of things I woulda been smacked hard if I wasn't.
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Coastal_elite
11/14/19 4:32:03 PM
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There is merit to the concept, and it exists, but the tumblr crowd poisoned it
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CADE FOSTER
11/14/19 4:32:13 PM
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Coastal_elite
11/14/19 4:32:33 PM
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Funkydog posted...
That it's definitely a thing, but doesn't mean white people can't be poor or suffer at the hands of the system. It fucks over everyone black, white or any other race if you don't have money/connections.

Still, certainly glad to have been a white woman at times, got me out of things I woulda been smacked hard if I wasn't.


this is a good take
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Wewillrocku
11/14/19 4:33:07 PM
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BuckVanHammer posted...
complete disregard based solely on personal experience is willful ignorance.

no, that's a pretty stupid thing to say, especially characterizing it as complete disregard.
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EdgeMaster
11/14/19 4:34:23 PM
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eston posted...
ArchiePeck posted...
It exists, you would have to be very ignorant to deny it.

This tbqh
The problem is a lot of people don't seem to even understand what it means and take offense as though you are accusing them of something


Well yeah, people dont like being told they have it easy/easier because of the color of their skin, kinda like how claiming anything else based on someones skin color would be offensive.

Regardless the term is from the Jim Crow era used to divide people when poor whites did actually have privileges that blacks did not, like being able to be served at restaurants.

Under the original definition it is no longer true, and any idea of white privilege today is also incorrect. That includes ridiculous claims like whites have it better than literally everyone else, even if they are the same socioeconomic status and make the same amount of money.

Funny how that standalone comment would be a yeahhh, no fucking shit but explain that its white privilege and the white guy who makes minimum wage has it better than the guy of any other race who makes minimum wage and suddenly its true and legitimate

That invisible knapsack is also a crock of shit. Go ahead and google and read a bit and come back and honestly tell me that bandaids matching whites skin color is a legitimate privilege, even though everyone can tell when you wear a bandaid regardless of the color of your skin.
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DrizztLink
11/14/19 4:36:03 PM
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nemu posted...
. I don't like the terminology because it's one of those loaded words that inherently seems combative no matter how you utilize it.
It really isn't.

I've noticed it every time I had to deal with cops, for example.

They treat the drunk white guy (me) pretty well, but the drunk Navajo guy gets treated horribly.

It's not inherently wrong to have privilege, it's just a good thing to recognize.

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nemu
11/14/19 4:38:43 PM
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I think the biggest issue is trying to use it on the level of individuals in the first place. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying such things based on averages. The second someone says "you have white privilege" or "your white privilege", they've lost the plot. No individual has inherent privlages. It all depends on where they live and who they live with. The idea of mass privilege comes from inspecting a large amount of cases where individuals of one particular grouping of people have certain experiences or don't have certain experiances. But that's just that, an average.
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Wewillrocku
11/14/19 4:42:57 PM
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nemu posted...
I think the biggest issue is trying to use it on the level of individuals in the first place. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying such things based on averages. The second someone says "you have white privilege" or "your white privilege", they've lost the plot. No individual has inherent privlages. It all depends on where they live and who they live with. The idea of mass privilege comes from inspecting a large amount of cases where individuals of one particular grouping of people. But that's just that, an average.

a lot of people forget that they're individuals altogether. they act like they belong to a hive mind.
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pinky0926
11/14/19 4:44:31 PM
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GarbageApe posted...
it's not real

im white and im still poor


That's not how it works
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Lost_All_Senses
11/14/19 4:45:16 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
That's not how it works


You mean....he didn't bust the case wide open with that eye opening revelation?

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DarthDemented
11/14/19 4:46:01 PM
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GarbageApe posted...
it's not real

im white and im still poor
Yep

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Wewillrocku
11/14/19 4:47:05 PM
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BuckVanHammer posted...
complete disregard based solely on personal experience is willful ignorance or you just dont get it.

yeah, i don't like the edit you made to your post. you're not the first person to accuse me of being too white, apparently, to get it. you don't specify what the reason is i don't get it, but what other reason can there really be, from your point of view, when you don't know anything about me but what i've posted? i put it down to a personal problem. it's a problem because i'm biracial and i can pass for white. so can a lot of people. diversity is supposed to mean understanding such a simple thing as this, unless you just post for the lulz and you don't mean it when you use x, y, or z words.
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FrisbeeDude
11/14/19 4:48:33 PM
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lmao at this topic...the mods here are something else. I'll just leave it at that

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mooreandrew58
11/14/19 4:59:42 PM
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Other than not getting harrassed by cops as much (its happened though) its done Jack shit for me in life.
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BuckVanHammer
11/14/19 5:03:20 PM
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Wewillrocku posted...
BuckVanHammer posted...
complete disregard based solely on personal experience is willful ignorance or you just dont get it.

yeah, i don't like the edit you made to your post. you're not the first person to accuse me of being too white, apparently, to get it. you don't specify what the reason is i don't get it, but what other reason can there really be, from your point of view, when you don't know anything about me but what i've posted? i put it down to a personal problem. it's a problem because i'm biracial and i can pass for white. so can a lot of people. diversity is supposed to mean understanding such a simple thing as this, unless you just post for the lulz and you don't mean it when you use x, y, or z words.

not accusing you specifically of anything. my comment applies to any social construct...but i do like the lulz for sure.
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2Privileged4U
11/14/19 5:06:29 PM
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I love it.
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bossjony
11/14/19 8:09:15 PM
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2Privileged4U posted...
I love it.
Bet you do
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FaultyGourry
11/14/19 8:13:59 PM
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It doesn't exist. The only one who think it does are middle class or higher white people that think their life experiences were the same for every other white person.
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bossjony
11/14/19 9:27:59 PM
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FaultyGourry posted...
It doesn't exist. The only one who think it does are middle class or higher white people that think their life experiences were the same for every other white person.
Lol
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