White Privilege

White Privilege is to pretend that Rich Blacks are disadvantaged over Poor Whites. The idea of White Privilege is to pretend that Jaden Smith, or Barack Obama's kids, have fewer opportunities than some poor, white, son-of-meth-head does, by nature of skin color. Of course that's complete bullshit. The facts are that many black individuals will have far more opportunities than many white ones. So reducing it down to just race, is foolish woke racism. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2017-10-22

• The idea of White Privilege is to pretend that Jaden Smith, or Barack Obama's kids, have fewer opportunities than some poor, white, son-of-meth-head does, by nature of skin color. Of course that's complete bullshit.

• The facts are that many black individuals will have far more opportunities than many white ones, and many black sub-groups well outperform many white-sub-groups. Asians outperform whites. Black immigrants outperform both the black and white national averages, because they're not handicapped with black gang-culture.

So while there is some minor burden of color, they are far outweighed by individual or sub-group or individuals advantages.

Thus the people that repeat the fallacy of "white privilege" are either racists, idiots, or racist idiots -- none with a clue on the way the real world works.

💭 The blame game

If you've every done any social work, or tried to actually help with the root issues of poverty, you already know: there is certainly some racism (by all groups). But the ideas of institutional racism being the cause of most income disparity completely ignores many more stronger factors. Blacks kids raised by white parents do statistically better. Immigrant blacks that come here with less (money, education, language skills, etc), do better, than those born to black privilege here. Why is that? What should we learn from that? The reason black immigrants outperform the black average (and many whites), despite language and cultural barriers, isn't because of skin color: it's about education and family values. So if you want to help people of any color, you need to stop judging people by the color of their skin, and only by the content of their character. Ignoring the problem doesn't fix it (time does). But focusing on it, seems to make it worse.

Progressive Choice

           Main article: Progressive Choice

The progressive choice is like the light or dark side in Star Wars (and the Force). (a) you can imagine Social Injustice everywhere, hate America, and demand change without thinking through the consequences. (b) you can be happier and more informed, see the flaws counterbalanced with goodness, and living a better life. Up to you.

The Solution

More than that, the solution is not blaming the system: that just teaches people to accept their fate and a blame someone else for every setback (be victims). The solution is teaching people that they can overcome the adversity we all have (take responsibility = be empowered) -- and most of that adversity is caused by self, family, sub-cultural (in descending order), and certainly not national/institutional racism (which is like 59th on the list of things holding anyone back).

The only thing we know for sure, is that all the progressives cures, haven't made things better and appear to have made things worse. Blacks had more opportunities and mobility, less single-parenthood, and so on, before we created the welfare state to hold them down. And the people screaming about the inequalities are holding the blacks down, do more to hold those kids down than the ones telling them that it doesn't matter and they can do more if they ignore color than if they wallow in it. So which is better?

Blacks have more opportunities here, than anywhere else in the world (just like whites, asians, latino's, etc). We should be reminding everyone of that. Instead of telling black kids they're destined to fail because of their skin color. Or that they're handicapped because of it. Maybe a little -- but the fact that they're a black kid in AMERICA instead of arab kid in Somalia (or latino kid in the favela of brazil) of gives them a HUGE advantages in life that most of the world should be envious of. So the handicap of being brown is dwarfed by the opportunities of being in America. And if they focus on the advantages instead of the disadvantages they have, they'll go much further than the other way around.

💭 White Guilt

White guilt is dogma (and often used as part of white privilege). Most white people had nothing to do with slavery Even if their great-great-grandparents did, unless THEY agree with what was done, it's irrelevant. Assuming that a black persons relatives were slaves, or a white persons was a slave holder IS RACISM. You don't know either family history, and the odds of that are lower than you might think. If we're trying to hold things against people stuff that happened 150 - 500 years ago, then I don't think there's anyone that's guilt free. And if you're holding the negatives against them, then you also need to hold the positives, like maybe fighting to free the slaves, or working on the underground railroad (something no other culture has done).

What is white?

There's also a fuzziness on what is a white? Italians, Mexicans, Irish were not considered "white" at certain points in time in history. For others they are. So which is it? Are they privileged or not?

There can be no "white privilege" since "whites" don't think of themselves as a group, an Italian doesn't look at a Swede and say, "Hey my Brotha from another Motha", or "we melatonin deficients have to stick together".

I've never met an Asian, Latino, Scandanavian, Italian, Russian, etc., and thought, "whew there's someone more like me than that black guy: I'd like to hire him". Though I've met a few blacks that did that to other blacks... while Brits or Germans I knew, tended to resent the French for past wrongs (and vise versa), or Castilians or Basks that weren't too happy with the rest of Spain, and so on, ad infinitum.

As Anthony Petrosino pointed out,

For those who now consider Itailian-Americans "white"--understand it wasn't always so. The largest mass lynching in U.S. history took place in New Orleans in 1891 — and the victims were Italian-Americans. What was the reaction of our country's leaders to these lynchings? Teddy Roosevelt, not yet president, famously said it was "a rather good thing." The response in The New York Times on March 16, 1891 referred to the victims of the lynchings as "... sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins." An editorial the next day argued that: "Lynch law was the only course open to the people of New Orleans. ..." John Parker, who helped organize the lynch mob, later went on to be governor of Louisiana. In 1911, he said of Italians that they were, "just a little worse than the Negro, being if anything filthier in [their] habits, lawless, and treacherous."

I'm sure all of the victims had the last thought, "at least I'm not black".

You could tell similar stories of Irish, or I grew up as a "Sand Nigger" (Iranian kid).

• When I worked in Watts, getting called "spook" and "casper" ("you so white yous' scary"). Was that part of my privilege? Or are you going to regurgitate the liberal dogma that blacks can't be racist because it requires power (ignoring that they have power in their communities).
• When an Italian or Russian mob guy is shaking me down, do you think they say, "let's give him the white discount?".
• When the IRS is fucking me over too much, because of my income, is there a white benefit?
• When an Asian kid is having a harder time getting in college because he's not the right color (black), does he think that's yellow privilege?

And so on.

Conclusion

Does an equally qualified/healthy/experience/personalitied/etc white person have some advantage (in America), in a few more cases? OK. Sure. I can buy that color doesn't hurt, in at least a few ways. No one is denying there's racism/culturalism -- just the idea that there's institutional racism, and that government will somehow make it better. Color may matter a little, it just matters less than other things.

So racial biases (and old thinking) exists. It sucks. But "White Privilege" is vapid philosophy because there are so many stronger injustices in life. When the Jews were being sent to the ovens, or the cambodians were being shot and thrown into trenches, they weren’t thinking, “well thank God I’m not black”. That’s not to demean the injustices of being black, but just to keep them in perspective. And I don’t think privilege theory does that.

Who do you think has it more advantanges, a white kid with lymphoma or a healthy black kid? A black son of a millionaire, or a Vietnamese boat-kid that was smuggled here and whose parents worked in a sweat shop to put him through school? So color may matter, but it probably matters a lot less than culture, experience, effort, personality, hobbies, etc, and pure luck of birth (diseases/heredity/genetics/etc). We're all a complex recipe of ingredients, and singling a minor one out, and saying "sea salt makes all the difference in this recipe over kosher salt", is ignoring all the other ingredients and preparation steps in the meal.

The reason people perpetuate the myth, is because there's money (or votes) in dividing us, and pretending racism is at the root of every problem. The reason follow this myths are too numerous to name: gullibility, guilt, hate, and so on.

So to me "White Privilege" is dumb. Humans are individuals and multi-dimensionally. Racism like "white privilege" is pretending that color matters more than all those other things -- or that correcting that one thing, will change all the other. So we shouldn't be focused on the micro, and instead look at the macro.

Videos

Jay Fayza
Debunking White Privilege: The Economic Reality

Jordan Peterson
Debunking White Privilege.

PragerU
Do White Americans Have White Privilege?

PragerU
Is White Privilege Real?

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🔗 More

Terms We need to agree on what terms mean. This used to be easy, before SJW's/Marxists started Orwelling our language.

Institutional Racism "Systemic/Institutional Racism" is the delusion that the system (laws/agencies) are against poor brown people.

🔗 Links

• Excellent video by Jay Fayza that debunks a lot of the disinformation:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoHAG9UFaKI
  • https://www.therebel.media/debunking_white_privilege_the_economic_reality
• Denis Prager, National Review decomposes the argument: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431393/white-privilege-myth-reality
• Article on Stereotypes: http://quillette.com/2015/12/04/rebellious-scientist-surprising-truth-about-stereotypes/
• The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology: https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf
• Asian Privilege: https://riderrants.blogspot.com/2017/10/white-privilege-explains-superior-white.html

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