Of course not; “wandering down that road” demonstrates how flawed the whole argument is.
They don’t like being told that they are worthless evil subhumans for something they never did, no. Which is what slamming people with a label like “privileged” is doing. It’s just a snooty version of “worthless parasite”, the left wing equivalent of calling someone a “taker, not a maker”.
That’s not what privilege is… Maybe this will clarify some things:
^^^^^ No need to feel “white guilt” over this, only to acknowledge the reality.
Also just because you privileged in one dimension doesn’t mean you are in others (class, for instance)…
The point is that you are operating under the unfounded assumption that the minority was hired because of affirmative action. You basically proved the point given that the vast vast majority of minorities are not in their current positions because of affirmative action, yet you assumed many/most are, and that affirmative action (where it exists) somehow hurts White people.
While I think he is a bad justice, he is certainly qualified on paper to be on the SC. Ivy league law school, DC Court of Appeals, and a few other high profile government jobs is enough to put most people in the short list. His resume is comparable to Kennedy, Scalia, and Robert’s. While he was likely nominated because he is Black, his Blackness is sill a net negative.
This would be a good point if he hadn’t been a Civil Rights Attorney, Law Professor, State senator, and US Senator before being elected as President.
The charge is not true, but even if it were, people usually assume an uneducated Black person is uneducated because they are unintelligent or unmotivated whereas many Whites aren’t saddled with such assumptions.
Romulado Pacheco, Governor of California in 1875. I don’t think he had any formal education past the age of 12.
Alternately, if he counts, Luis Muñoz Marin, the first elected governor of Puerto Rico, from 1949 to 1965. He had been enrolled at Georgetown, but I’m not sure that he ever actually went. His father had enrolled him, over his objections, and then fell ill and died, and so Muñoz never went back.
John Scalzi wrote a good essay on white privilege: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.
What we really need are some Deplorable Examples of white, male, wealthy, heterosexual, intelligent, educated, healthy, physically able and unchallenged, English-speaking, good looking, tall, Christian privilege.
Did I leave anything out?
Yes, that is what “privilege” is. Or more specifically, that’s what the term means when people start using it to shout down their opponents or dismiss them as having any worth, which is overwhelmingly how it’s used. And that is overwhelmingly how it is heard by the targets.
You can use whatever scholarly/politically correct definition you like, but it isn’t going to be heard by your targets as anything other than a sneer of hatred and contempt. And regardless of how you mean the term, that’s exactly how it’s meant by most people who use it.
I’m reminded of the occasional libertarian who calls themselves a “classical liberal” and then gets all offended when people “misunderstand” because people think they mean the same thing that everyone else does when they use the word “liberal”.
There are ten places available for a course. You are the tenth most qualified candidate, except for one problem: you’re Chinese. Instead a black student gets the tenth position, despite his scores being 250 points lower than yours, just because he is black and you are not.
Agree, Buzzfeed is retarded. Cracked without the effort to write an article or the willingness to not steal images. It’s hard to debate the message when the whole list uses asinine images.
#2 Are they saying that that can’t happen because only black teenagers die young? Racist! But really, that whole quote is meaningless.
#5 Aww they’re becoming doctors!
#6 Sagging is associated with hip hop culture. I don’t know many black people, white people, or other people who aren’t Justin Bieber who wear those retarded “crapped myself” pants.
#8 What the hell is that gif and what is it supposed to mean?
#9 Heh only he’d be the whitest person they can find.
#10 Again, WHAT? Two people laughing or crying?
#11 Uh they were white. Being Islamic does not change your race.
#12 Yeah the pickelhaube is a giveaway. If that wasn’t a clue, the text is. And I guess she should’ve picked him up?
#14 No, not living in NYC means I don’t have to worry about stop and frisk. I don’t doubt that cops elsewhere harass people, but I don’t think that these protesters weren’t in New York.
#15 Got it. Fuck the Germans, fuck terrorists, and fuck… icebergs?
#16 By whom? And to be fair, one came first. They’re both annoying as hell. Minaj’s Lonely Island visit was better.
#17 The Boondocks on vacation?
In summary, I hate list websites that don’t even try, created by some random guy. Making a social or political point works better when you use examples and persuasion instead of image macros, but most people are too lazy.
Der Trihs, you were making up your own definition of privileged the last time this topic came up, and your definition has no more validity this time.
(And I am highly amused at finding that you are upset over people being subjected to name calling.)
As opposed to the made up definition we are “supposed” to use? The fact of the matter is that however much you dislike “my” version, that’s how I consistently see it used and how I see people react to the term.
What job do you know of that uses standardized testing, affirmative action, and race based criteria? Additionally, you have no idea whether any individual’s scores are after the fact. The point is that people see a Black kid at Harvard, and ASSUME he is less qualified even though you have no idea whether he was 1st or 10th in your example. More importantly, you have curiously chosen to view affirmative action as a program that helps Black people at the expense of Asians and Whites despite the fact that White women have benefitted from affirmative action far more, and that affirmative action is largely absent in employment situations.
But either way, thanks again for proving the point made by the article.
I’m the first to admit that a lot of e-feminists (or other-activists) are internet tough guy shitheads who abuse the term “privilege” to shut down discussion, but that doesn’t mean that the underlying concept is completely unsound, or that we should completely abandon the term because people are stupid.
Privilege is an apt description, white (or cis, or heterosexual, or male, or rich) people get certain levels privileges in society not afforded to others. That doesn’t mean that Barack Obama isn’t way better off than Cletus McPoorPants WhiteGuy, but it does mean that Cletus is probably better off than a black guy of the same socioeconomic status than him, and better off in ways that may be invisible to him. Similarly, Obama faces levels of scrutiny and attacks that aren’t afforded to white guys at his level. That’s what it was coined to mean, and privilege is a perfectly good way to describe it. Don’t let internet shitheads ruin it.
Obama put HOW many states in the union?
And Dan Quayle accepted the ACCURATE spelling of potato, but was THEN told it was wrong & did not correct the backup-judge. Now, Dan was a fine Congressman & Senator for my state, tho he seemed taken aback by his V.P. nomination, stumbled several times in public, and was never taken seriously again. Hell, the fact that you’re bringing this up over two decades later shows that this is a crap example.
My hometown had a lovely case a couple years back: Patricia Cook, shot by Officer Daniel Harmon-Wright.
As for the list that inspired the OP, I agree with the general feelings others have put forth. Black people suffer discrimination in this country at times, but the list is an excellent example of slipshod thinking, false claims, and poor wording. About what I expect from most internet sources, in other words.
Perhaps he had a problem with a guy named Patricia.
What’s noteworthy about that link is that the cop was successfully prosecuted, which isn’t the typical outcome for shootings of black males.
I’m sorry, FriarTed, but being “told” potato was wrong and not knowing it was wrong is just as bad. In fact, in some ways, it’s worse. If Dan Quayle were a minority, he’d be washing dishes somewhere. Same goes for Scott Walker, John Boehner, and many other white politicians.
Thank you for fighting my ignorance but was hoping for a more contemporary example. Marin might be a comparable example to Scott Walker but Puerto Rico isn’t even a State, it’s a territory. Thanks for the information, nonetheless.
The best example of white privilege is simply looking at the book labeled “Presidents”. When you’re done with that, open the book labeled “Vice Presidents” and you’ll find that 98% of all Presidents have been white men and 100% of Vice Presidents have been white men. It’s quite remarkable given the diversity of the United States.
Hey, hey, it’s not like that at all. 
It’s just about knowing that privilege exist. Nothing more, nothing less.