Orwell
March 15, 2018, 10:25pm
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Jophiel:
They do, when using the actual intended definition of “white privilege”. Which is unfortunately named because it lends itself to mistaken comparisons like this one as people have knee-jerk defensive reactions to the term “privilege”. Maybe it should be called “Black deficit” or something, I dunno.
Take a poor white dirt farmer and a rich black dude, dress them in identical clothes and send them into a store and the black dude will get more side-eye and shit from store staff and security. Have them stopped in identical cars and the black dude will have different experiences with the police. Send their kids to the same school and the black kid will experience different things from the faculty. Not every single time but often enough that simply having dark skin will, on balance, be a detqariment to your experiences versus having lighter skin. The concept that, all else being equal, you are disadvantaged by society due to preconceptions based on your skin tone, not “This one white dude doesn’t earn as much as that one black guy”.
I see what you mean, and I agree, at least to an extent. I have no desire to get into a whole discussion on race relations, so I am going to bow out of this thread.
Grestarian:
Quite frankly, I’ve seen Christians use a similar fallacious argument – from the time when the Rome dominated ‘civilized’ Europe (when it was not fallacious) through and beyond the time when Germany dominated ‘civilized’ Europe, and into modern times.
After re-reading my post, I realized how inflamatory this paragraph may seem (and I’m known for similar genuine attacks).
I include it not as an attack on Christians but to exemplify that the problem is not merely about skin color, as the OP’s quote of his acquaintance seemed to imply.
Apologies if that was misconstrued. Carry on.
–G!