Eta: ok, he goes off on one of the reviews saying " they should have cast a woman of color" for some reason. That is pretty retarded,
By the OP’s logic, sneering movie critics would be driving young white men into the arms of Amy Schumer.
Reading not that review but more about the movie, it makes some sense to the alleged point of the movie: imposed standards of beauty that normal women hold themselves in comparison to. The issue of Black women holding themselves to a standard of beauty that is White norm based is a real one. Still a silly comment but not completely WTF.
But boy this is the “sneering” SlackerInc is talking about? Very very odd.
So we must then conclude that ‘sneering Conservatives’ are driving people into the arms of the Democrats, right?
Amazing how the people so intent on smearing the left as snowflakes are themselves the greater snowflakes.
I find the whole concept of “white privilege” offensive. And anybody that asks me to acknowledge it can suck a dick. And if you need your precious little cites, go to youtube and type in “white privilege” and watch them, then come back someday when you’re done, if you live that long. Don’t come back before.
My parents had me after they got married, my dad stuck around, never got divorced, helped me out with my homework, were active participants in my schooling, and encouraged me to go to college.
This is not “privilege.” These are the default actions of parents doing what they * are supposed to do* for their kids. Not doing this does not mean the people that did are “privileged.” Not doing this means the parents made poor life choices, period. If poor choices are endemic to a certain demographic, THAT demographic needs to be the one doing the introspection and soul-searching, NOT mine.
Offensive and makes you angry, but only to the point of blaming others for not sharing it with you, regardless of how our society has and does treat them.
Kind of like how it’s easy to dismiss homeopathy as quackery, or to dismiss pyramid schemes as scams, or to dismiss 9-11 Trutherism as lunacy.
I’m not blaming anyone because of the color of their skin (read: “others”), I’m blaming them for poor life choices. Poor life choices that are not race specific. Anybody with loser parents are going to fare worse on average (see: the so-called leeching red-states that liberals love to point out when bolstering their blue state superiority).
How does this differ from looking at a poor black kid and saying “Sorry about your luck, chump; it’s not the fault of white folks that black folks can’t get their shit together.” Whatever you think of the ultimate validity of the popular conception of white privilege, the point of it is to recognize that unempathetic attitudes of the dominant group can make it much harder to get your shit together. Would you agree with that much?
Please dial it back.
Dial it way back. Telling those to who may disagree with you (some of whom may be other posters) to suck a dick is completely inappropriate for this forum.
This is a solid example of ad hominem. Attempting to refute an argument is fine. Loose name calling and saying a person is not able to make an argument because of their personal characteristics is not appropriate for this forum.
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Apologies. I was not referencing anyone on this forum.
Except generally everyone in the thread who recognized White Privilege.
Maybe your problem with the “white privilege” label is that you don’t understand what it means when people use it. Nobody who uses the phrase ‘white privilege’ is saying that white people who achieve success didn’t work hard for it, or that they didn’t make good choices. Simultaneously, people who use that term don’t deny that people who get incarcerated in prison or who are chronically unemployed or poor probably made some bad choices along the way.
But whites have always had an advantage over non-whites in this society. You as a white person have a significant advantage by being a member of the white race in a society that has white supremacy written into its most important founding documents. And you and your posterity probably will for generations to come.
I’m saying saying anything to any black kid. I am perfectly fine with ANY program that will help blacks “get their shit together” (even if it discriminates against whites and asians). But I’m *not *going to be fine with all that, on TOP of being told how “privileged” I am. Screw that.
The operating term being had. There is not a single current law or program you can point to that specifically discriminates against blacks. And if you can find one, I’ll counter it with an example that specifically benefits blacks. You go first.
Cite. Current examples only.
I’m quite certain you could meet someone at a Starbucks for a business meeting without having the police called on you. Or you could go on a college tour without having the police called because you “looked out of place”.
The moderation is fine, though I feel I should point out that I wasn’t at all trying to refute his argument; I was explaining why other people were dismissing him outright.
Oh you mean by that mean ol’ progressive chick? I go to Philadephia frequently. I can’t get a bathroom code without buying something. Happened last month at Shake Shack. I also know better than to try to stick around when I’m asked to leave somewhere (which happened to me when my car tire blew at night and I got asked to leave the nearby gas station I was hanging out at waiting for help). I especially know better to stay when they tell me they’re going to call the cops if I don’t leave. And I don’t blame the officers for doing their job when someone is trespassing (e.g. staying somewhere after being asked to leave).
How about when I as webmaster was specifically asked to remove pictures of white people on campus at the HBCU I worked at? Pictures of actual students? We can come up with anecdotes all day. At the end of the day, they’re still anecdotes.
How is “having loser parents” a choice anyone makes?
So, you recognize that there’s a disparity that needs to be addressed, you’re okay with the proposed solutions to address that disparity… but you’re going to dig in your heels and fight all that because you don’t like the word someone uses to describe it?
You sure you’re not a liberal?
Racial inequality only exists when it’s codified into law? Laws can only be racist if they explicitly target people by race in the text of the law? By that standard, most of the Jim Crow laws weren’t racist. Those literacy voting laws never actually said, “No blacks,” after all. They were just crafted such that virtually no black person could pass them. If only explicit racism is real racism, I guess those laws weren’t racist at all, right?
Why does it have to be a law or program for it to be a disadvantage?
Black boys viewed as older, more culpable than white boys.