Pulfnick Loc: Knoxville, TN

I'm white and have never benefited from being white, or been singled out for any special treatment because of my race, other than being called "honkey" by black thugs on the other side of the street once. Just like everyone else, I've always had to get by on my performance, no breaks.

Will someone please explain what white privilege is, how it works, and who benefits from it. I would like to cash in on it.

As near as I can tell, this is just a progressive invention used to influence useful idiots desperately searching for some reason to feel good about themselves.

Ricktloml

I think you answered your own question. Just another insidious way to promote what the left stands for, class envy, racism, lies, cheating and corruption. And without useful idiots they wouldn't have much of a constituency

just care

If you find out let me know. I too must be owed a lot of stuff and rights and privileges but I know of nowhere to go to collect

Armageddun Loc: The show me state

People seem to forget that many many white folks have had it just as bad as blacks. Being white does not come with a promise of a silver spoon.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Sorry, that only applies to whites worth more than 5 million dollars. Everyone else is just a shade of brown.

moldyoldy

Here is the info you requested.

Dear white racists and your fragile fee-fees:

Relax, I'm white, too. Look, I can do the secret handshake and nudge-nudge, wink-wink. Lemme whitesplain something to you, fellow white men: no one buys your bullshit.
That's because your bullshit runs like this: For historically- and presently-oppressed black people to be treated decently, they must carefully avoid doing anything that could be remotely twisted into behaving like a white racist, even if you're squinting and looking at it from five hundred meters away in a thick fog. Because that would be racist, and therefore hypocritical, and if that's the case, they deserve to continue to be oppressed.

Here's the thing you thick-headed assholes totally fail to get: NO ONE DESERVES TO BE OPPRESSED, PERIOD. You can talk all you want about how it's okay for black people to be mistreated if--- but get this, there is no "if". It's not okay, ever. That's why we call it mistreatment. Your error is to think that it's ever justified, and your active misdeed is to constantly search for a justification. Black people, collectively, are not guilty of anything. In fact, a basic principle of civil society is that we reject the notion of collective guilt.

Some individual black people, like individual white people, have done bad things, and in those cases, may deserve judicial punishments. But even those people don't deserve mistreatment from some random white guy on the street. And black people in general don't owe anyone anything as a prerequisite for being treated decently. No one does.

Now I know there are a bunch of you in the back of the room waving your hand and getting ready to launch the argument that it's racist to complain about white privilege. No, it is not. Complaining about white privilege is not the same as assigning collective guilt to white people. White privilege is a pervasive feature of our society and our legal system. It's hard to see if you're white (and you're not looking or actively trying not to look), but it is real, it is powerfully destructive, and if global warming had the kind of statistical support that evidence of white privilege has, Bill O'Reilly would be haranguing FOX News viewers to install solar panels.

And here's the subtle point that you folks either can't or won't grasp. White privilege is especially the responsibility of white people to fix, not because we're all racist schlubs like you are, but because white privilege itself means that we're the ones who have the power to change it. Black people don't have that power, again because of white privilege, and not because they aren't sufficiently careful in the way they phrase their complaints about being mistreated. It's our problem and our responsibility as white people to fix not because whites are collectively guilty, but because it is the responsibility of ALL PEOPLE to fight for decent treatment for ALL PEOPLE. It just happens that, because of our shithead ancestors and a helping handful of historical accident, we white people are the ones who can do something about it. When the finger on the trigger is white, it's pointless to ask a black guy to lower the gun.

And quite frankly, given all the shit that our black fellow citizens have put up with, and all the shit they have to deal with every. fucking. day., if some of them lose their tempers and say things that aren't carefully calibrated to kiss your privileged, hypersensitive asses, well, is that actually surprising? You lose your minds when black people just complain verbally about being kicked. Imagine how tough it would be for you to keep your cool if someone was actually doing something to you instead of just talking.

Finally, yes, I know this is pointless. You want to be offended to fluff your fragile egos, and you want black people to please shut the fuck up and stop harshing your mellow. I hate to break it to you, but as long as people are being murdered by the state, given draconian sentences for crimes that in many cases they haven't even committed, and being held in poverty and privation and a constant state of fear, those of us who actually give a shit about our fellow citizens are going, at the very least, to make some noise about it.

In the meantime, if you can't be bothered to do your duty as an American to protect your fellow Americans with the considerable power at your disposal, at least shut the fuck up and stop making an ass of yourself.

Regards,
Your fellow privileged white guy

just care

Take some mydol dude

moldyoldy

White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.[note 1] These privileges are unearned and are distributed based on values of the dominant group.[1] According to McIntosh and Lee, whites in a society considered culturally a part of the Western World enjoy advantages that non-whites do not experience.[1] This leads to the controversy over whether or not White people should be able to enjoy these privileges. The term denotes both obvious and less obvious passive advantages that white persons may not recognize they have, which distinguishes it from overt bias or prejudice.[2] These include cultural affirmations of one's own worth; presumed greater social status; and freedom to move, buy, work, play, and speak freely.[1] The effects can be seen in professional, educational, and personal contexts.[3] The concept of white privilege also implies the right to assume the universality of one's own experiences, marking others as different or exceptional while perceiving oneself as normal.[4][5]

Academic perspectives such as critical race theory and whiteness studies use the concept of "white privilege" to analyze how racism and racialized societies affect the lives of white people.

Some critics argue that the term uses the concept of "whiteness" as a proxy for class or other social privilege or as a distraction from deeper underlying problems of inequality.[6][7] Others argue that it is not that whiteness is a proxy but that many other social privileges are interconnected with it, requiring complex and careful analysis to identify whiteness' contributions to privilege.[8] Other critics of the idea propose alternate definitions of whiteness and exceptions to or limits of white identity, arguing that the concept of "white privilege" ignores important differences between white subpopulations and individuals.[9][10] This means that the notion of whiteness is not inclusive of all White people. Critics of white privilege also note that there is a problem with the interpretation of people of color. That is, it fails to acknowledge the diversity of people of color and ethnicity within these groups.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

You don't perhaps live in the inner city somewhere do you?

Just asking. Curious.

signoftheages

Just like Global Warming and Unicorn Farts it doesn't exist, and the Libtards know it.Just another way to destroy, disrupt, downgrade America.One day , when the full truth known, this moment in time will be looked upon with utter disbelief, the stupidity of the American people.

Pulfnick Loc: Knoxville, TN

WOW! Such a clear, logical, explanation. But apparently I don't think at your level. If there is white privilege, how can I cash in? And exactly what problem are white people supposed to fix? How?

And exactly how are blacks mistreated - or does it just bother you that incarceration rates for blacks are higher than for whites? Should blacks be given a pass for crimes because they are black so they aren't jailed like a white person would be for the same crime?

Cadillac

I'm assuming that you have never been passed over for promotion so that a minority would get promoted.

Armageddun Loc: The show me state

Is there a point here someplace :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
"You deserve a break today."

Armageddun Loc: The show me state

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DJZFIRE

You are an odd person. I saw no facts at all, just psycho-babble. Maybe you were looking in the mirror when you wrote this stuff. Good grief.