Current Events > White Privilege is a Myth, no matter what you believe...

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Railing against ‘white men’ and their cushy existences has become the stock-in-trade of many feminists.

Yet towards the end of 2015 it was revealed that there’s a social group in Britain more derided and less successful than pretty much every other social group. Guess who? Yep, young white men. Especially young working-class white men. A large sector of the group that the new identity-politics mob loves to ridicule for sailing through life unmolested and unchallenged is actually having a rough time.

Consider this: 18-year-old women are 35 percent more likely to attend university than 18-year-old men; and where 37 percent of black school-leavers go to university, only 28 percent of white school-leavers do. These stats were unveiled by UCAS in December, leading its chief executive to wonder if it isn’t time to initiate ‘outreach’ projects designed to get more white blokes into college.

shouldn't feminists be more worried about male privilege in general?

don't black men still benefit from being males?
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its just liberal propaganda
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White privilege is a myth because for once women are more likely to get higher education than men?

MakoReizei posted...

shouldn't feminists be more worried about male privilege in general?

As if they aren't
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Just bring in the most qualified candidates.

Someone getting a surgery doesn't give a fuck what race their surgeon is. What they do care about are his qualifications.
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"White Privilege" is bullshit. When I ask people what is white privilege I get three general responses:

1) Income inequality
2) Systemic racism through the Criminal Justice system
3) Generic capitalist policies that benefit white people such as band-aids being the skin tone as white people or hotel shampoo is more suited to white people hair.

Lets tackle the first point; income inequality. There are three basic principles for people to follow to not be permanently poor.

1) Graduate high school
2) Don't get pregnant before marraige
3) Get a job

The first point is the graduation issue. There are no white people forcing black people to not graduate high school. School, for all intensive purposes, is free. Not only is school free; individuals that live within its jurisdiction is mandated to attend the provided free educational facility or enroll in private or home school. The drop out rate of black youth is about seven percent and for white people it is about five percent.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16

Don't get pregnant before marriage. This is an issue that is prevalent in the black community. The rate of black unwed mothers is at about 72%

http://www.blacknews.com/news/black_unwed_mothers101.shtml#.VxvZI3qbFoM

In comparison the rate of single white mothers is about 32%.

http://www.actrochester.org/children-youth/family-support/single-parent-families/single-parent-families-by-race-ethnicity

White people are not causing this. There aren't white people that are making black people have sex with other black people, then forcing one of them to abandon the other. In no place in America is this happening.

The third issue is to get a job. Black unemployment is at 9.2% with the contrast of white unemployment being at 4.2%

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/black-unemployment-rate-92-more-double-white-unemployment-44

The percentage of black families that have both parents that live below the poverty line is 12%.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/25/fathers-disappear-from-households-across-america/?page=all

Whereas white single mothers are at 33%

http://www.familyfacts.org/charts/329/poverty-rates-are-higher-among-single-mother-families-regardless-of-race

Where is all this white privilege for these white single mothers?

Systemic racism through the Criminal Justice system:

The first thing that gets attention is the differential treatment of crack verses powder cocaine. There is the widespread belief that the behind the scenes white supremacist super villain emperor of the United States is creating legislation to hurt black people. While that is a very compelling argument that many would fear to challenge because of its ironclad reasoning, I'm willing to question this idea.

The reason for heavy sentencing in crack cocaine is because crack is easier to distribute, easier to manufacture, and easier to get high off of. This is a drug that to this day devastates black communities. And it was actually black legislators in inner cities that pushed for the harsher sentencing in an effort to get the drugs out of their communities. This has nothing to do with white privilege. White people didn't even have anything to do with this.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/312823-black-leaders-once-championed-strict-drug-laws-they-now-seek-dismantle/

Meth has the same sentencing as crack, and yet meth is predominantly a drug used by white people. Where is all the white privilege for the Kentucky trailer park hillbillies?

http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking06/Meth-Crack.html
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we need to do something about white female privilege.
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Nomadic View posted...

Just bring in the most qualified candidates.

Someone getting a surgery doesn't give a fuck what race their surgeon is. What they do care about are his qualifications.

Given your post history i find this statement questionable
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I don't have a problem with privilege, I just want everyone else to have it
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CopyMan1 posted...

in Britain

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lol

CrimsonRage posted...

White privilege is like science. Even if you don't believe in it, it's still true.

White privilege is like original sin. Even if you don't believe in it, you're still an evil sinner and you need the Lord's forgiveness.

ITP it's the bullshit replacement for original sin
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