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| Topic | Liberals who learn about white privilege are less sympathetic to poor whites. |
| The Admiral 05/30/19 3:52:18 PM #62: | The term "white privilege" is inherently inaccurate, antagonistic, and borderline racist. For one, almost all the privilege that whites in the U.S. have, Asians also have. In fact, they're more privileged/successful than whites in many categories, including things like average income and education levels. This is conveniently ignored when the term is used. Second, the term ignores that there are many different racial groups in the U.S. with varying levels of disadvantage. For example, black people and Hispanic people are both underprivileged relative to whites, but in a city with just those two groups, there will still be still be a hierarchy among which of those groups is more disadvantaged. What term describes that disparity? The term should honestly be "minority disadvantage," with careful distinction made to the fact that every minority group is disadvantaged in different ways. And societal disadvantage should also stop being preached as something specific to race, as there are many other attributes that create relative privileges and disadvantages among groups of people (e.g. height, intelligence, wealth, etc.). --- - The Admiral ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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