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EndOfDiscOne
12/12/19 10:59:21 AM
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Do you have White Privilege?



Do you benefit from white privilege?

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The Trent
12/12/19 11:01:57 AM
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hell yeah probably hopefully
oh wait i mean
sorry i do not know but if so i apologize deeply

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Deadpool_18
12/12/19 11:03:38 AM
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Yes.

Every race has exclusive perks, whether theyre comfortable with admitting so or not.

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SquantoZ
12/12/19 11:04:04 AM
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I am a mixed race latino (Puerto Rican) and even I have somehow benefited from white privilege simply due to the fact that I am lighter skinned than my brethren. Shit runs deeper than just for "white" people and it's upsetting to know that.

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Blackstar110
12/12/19 11:04:33 AM
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Im white but no

lol

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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/19 11:04:34 AM
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Where's "Im not white, but yes"?

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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/19 11:05:29 AM
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SquantoZ posted...
I am a mixed race latino (Puerto Rican) and even I have somehow benefited from white privilege simply due to the fact that I am lighter skinned than my brethren. Shit runs deeper than just for "white" people and it's upsetting to know that.

Cause this is exactly my case too. Except Im Mexican.

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EndOfDiscOne
12/12/19 11:05:47 AM
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M_Live posted...
Lol
Why is that funny?

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AlisLandale
12/12/19 11:07:21 AM
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A bit more than usual these days. Wish I could leverage it a bit more though, but I struggle with crippling mental health issues >_>

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nemu
12/12/19 11:11:48 AM
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No. I disagree with the terminology and the application on the individual level. There is an extreme difference between saying that on average people may experience life differently based on innate characteristics and that an individual has an innate advantage based on those average experiences. Ascribing that as something innate to each individual completely ignores the context of each individual's life experience.
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ElatedVenusaur
12/12/19 11:16:48 AM
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Oh absolutely. I think the episode that brought it home was when I was in the deepest throes of my anxiety disorder and afflicted with awful insomnia, so I went for a walk around my neighborhood at around 2AM. I left via the back door because I didn't want to wake my parents. As I was making my way back towards my house, I noticed lights. It was the police. They stopped me and asked me to identify myself, as they had been told there was some one cutting through yards in the neighborhoods. I didn't have ID, so they asked me to stay while they ran my name. One cop stayed to talk with me, obviously trying to poke holes in my story. They let me go after a few minutes.
And you know what I was thinking? "Thank God I'm white."
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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/19 11:17:35 AM
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Nope, not getting sucked in. Lol

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EzeDoesIt
12/12/19 11:20:01 AM
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nemu posted...
No. I disagree with the terminology and the application on the individual level. There is an extreme difference between saying that on average people may experience life differently based on innate characteristics and that an individual has an innate advantage based on those average experiences. Ascribing that as something innate to each individual completely ignores the context of each individual's life experience.

White privilege doesnt mean nothing bad ever happens to white people or that there arent privileged non-white people.

Lost_All_Senses posted...
Nope, not getting sucked in. Lol

lmao

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The23rdMagus
12/12/19 11:21:07 AM
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Yeah, and I don't have a choice in the matter. A lot of things have made my life difficult, and being white isn't one of them.

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SquantoZ
12/12/19 11:21:47 AM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
Cause this is exactly my case too. Except Im Mexican.

Are you my spirit animal?

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TimeSquid
12/12/19 11:21:52 AM
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As a black persons, I get to make racist jokes without people getting mad at me :D

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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/19 11:31:05 AM
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SquantoZ posted...
Are you my spirit animal?

Iunno, are you 60 pounds while wet and wearing boots?

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ArchiePeck
12/12/19 11:32:01 AM
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I don't have to genuinely fear for my life around cops, so yes.
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Bishop9800
12/12/19 11:32:34 AM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
Iunno, are you 60 pounds while wet and wearing boots?

Damm E, they try to fade you on Dre Day

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John_Galt
12/12/19 11:55:31 AM
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Im white, but no

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Guide
12/12/19 11:59:16 AM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
Where's "Im not white, but yes"?

Yeah, that's me. Pass for white because of a genetic fluke.

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SquantoZ
12/12/19 12:02:33 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
Iunno, are you 60 pounds while wet and wearing boots?

Unfortunately no :(

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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/19 12:17:45 PM
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Bishop9800 posted...
Damm E, they try to fade you on Dre Day

This guy gets it.

SquantoZ posted...
Unfortunately no :(

Eh, as a guy, being super skinny isn't so desirable. Gotta learn to be funny & people pleasing to survive. Luckily I adapted both. It is cool being able to get 30 feet up a tree in under 30 seconds tho

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Machete
12/12/19 12:27:00 PM
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I'm white, so yes definitely 100%
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Dyinglegacy
12/12/19 12:39:24 PM
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I call it majority privilege, because that's what I believe it actually is. You'll likely be met with this type of privilege if you are part of the majority race that harbors whichever region of the world you are in.

If you are in a middle eastern country like saudi arabia, you're probably better off if you're arabian. If you're in an east asian country like japan, you're probably better off being japanese. So on and so forth.

The people around you will most likely be of your race. The people represented in media will most likely be of your race. The people spoken about in local history will most likely be of your race. All of these things are talking points when speaking of white previlege, and all of these things happen in other countires that have a majority race, except probably to greater degree because the majority in some countries are the majority by a much larger percent.

North america is majority white, so obviously, you're going to expereince these very same privileges as other nations with a majority race. White are the majority by around 70%, which isn't as severe as, let's say, japan, where Japanese people occupy the upper 90%.

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Vol2tex
12/12/19 12:41:27 PM
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Dyinglegacy posted...
I call it majority privilege, because that's what I believe it actually is. You'll likely be met with this type of privilege if you are part of the majority race that harbors whichever region of the world you are in.

If you are in a middle eastern country like saudi arabia, you're probably better off if you're arabian. If you're in an east asian country like japan, you're probably better off being japanese. So on and so forth.

The people around you will most likely be of your race. The people represented in media will most likely be of your race. The people spoken about in local history will most likely be of your race. All of these things are talking points when speaking of white previlege, and all of these things happen in other countires that have a majority race, except probably to greater degree because the majority in some countries are the majority by a much larger percent.

North america is majority white, so obviously, you're going to expereince these very same privileges as other nations with a majority race. White are the majority by around 70%, which isn't as severe as, let's say, japan, where Japanese people occupy the upper 90%.

White people are generally treated better than black people worldwide though.

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Garioshi
12/12/19 12:44:20 PM
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There is nothing wrong with acknowledging that being born white gives you inherent systemic advantages.

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Dyinglegacy
12/12/19 12:47:47 PM
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-l___________l- posted...
One thing is I've gotten pulled over by cops twice and just got warnings so maybe that counts? idk lol

I'm rural kentucky white. That is to say, white as fuck.

Got pulled over in a very much rural kentucky area by a very much rural kentucky old white policeman. He gave me a ticket fast as fuck, for turning right on a redlight... at 12 am... on christmas eve... I ALMOST came to a complete stop, but just kinda rolled on through the light, or Calirfonia rolled on through, as we hicks like to call it. Nothing coming for miles, either direction. Wee-oww wee-oww. BAM, ticket bigger than shit.

Old boy didn't seem to care that we shared similar skin hue lol


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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/19 12:52:16 PM
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Garioshi posted...
There is nothing wrong with acknowledging that being born white gives you inherent systemic advantages.

CEmen seem to think minorities are evil people that want them to feel shitty about themselves. Instead of just acknowledging that it's there

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Dyinglegacy
12/12/19 12:54:05 PM
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Vol2tex posted...
White people are generally treated better than black people worldwide though.

I find that difficult to believe for every african nation. Guaranteed, there are places where you're better off to be black than you are to be white. Or asian. Or hispanic. Or martian.

As for the rest of the world, I don't know.

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Dyinglegacy
12/12/19 1:02:34 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
CEmen seem to think minorities are evil people that want them to feel s***ty about themselves. Instead of just acknowledging that it's there

I think that since it has been used that way before, it's just expected to be used that way whenever it gets brought up. When someone brings it up, it can be difficult to discern what they are meaning by it, especially over text, where important social cues are missing (voice tone, body language and facial expression).


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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/19 1:28:22 PM
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Dyinglegacy posted...
I think that since it has been used that way before, it's just expected to be used that way whenever it gets brought up. When someone brings it up, it can be difficult to discern what they are meaning by it, especially over text, where important social cues are missing (voice tone, body language and facial expression).

It seems more like a thing white people do to each other. Cause they don't only want to be white, but they want to appear better than others in their own race and flaunt it. While the actual people who they're knighting just want to be accepted as equals because they've experienced not feeling like equals. And when someone acknowledges that maybe things aren't so equal, it feels good that the plight is being acknowledged instead of ignored, like it has been for...well.. forever?

However, Im not trying to say everyone thinks the same. Shit, my sister had a bf that would constantly call people racist when he was just being a shitty person. Those people do exist. But treating them like they're the majority just to serve your purpose is slimy. The black community also constantly pokes fun at these people in their media. They acknowledge they exist all the time.

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IShall_Run_Amok
12/12/19 1:29:58 PM
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Yes, and its terminal.

The doctor's given me twelve days, which is three more days than someone from another demographic would have.

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HannibalBarca3
12/12/19 1:32:44 PM
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I have Barcid privilege

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Guide
12/12/19 2:11:32 PM
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Dyinglegacy posted...
I think that since it has been used that way before, it's just expected to be used that way whenever it gets brought up. When someone brings it up, it can be difficult to discern what they are meaning by it, especially over text, where important social cues are missing (voice tone, body language and facial expression).

On this board at least, it is most often willfully interpreted as a nonsensical attack in order to be dismissed as such, a reason to play up a sort of white victimhood, but most of the time it's not being used as an attack at all.

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Vol2tex
12/12/19 4:33:40 PM
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Guide posted...
On this board at least, it is most often willfully interpreted as a nonsensical attack in order to be dismissed as such, a reason to play up a sort of white victimhood, but most of the time it's not being used as an attack at all.

Very true.

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Balrog0
12/12/19 4:39:23 PM
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yeah definitely

criminal elements are also aware of this and will use it to their advantage; there's a premium for whiteness even in the underbelly of society

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EzeDoesIt
12/14/19 3:42:50 AM
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Balrog0 posted...
yeah definitely

criminal elements are also aware of this and will use it to their advantage; there's a premium for whiteness even in the underbelly of society

Always need a white boy on the team

always heard people saying stuff like this
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StealthRock
12/14/19 3:45:49 AM
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Deadpool_18 posted...
Yes.

Every race has exclusive perks, whether theyre comfortable with admitting so or not.
Such as?

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StealthRock
12/14/19 3:46:50 AM
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Dyinglegacy posted...
I find that difficult to believe for every african nation. Guaranteed, there are places where you're better off to be black than you are to be white. Or asian. Or hispanic. Or martian.

As for the rest of the world, I don't know.
Nah, when white people step foot in Africa, alot of those tribes throw parties

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Infost
12/14/19 3:47:44 AM
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No as I'm not white, and don't look remotely white.

Deadpool_18 posted...
Every race has exclusive perks, whether theyre comfortable with admitting so or not.

Bullshit.
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Questionmarktarius
12/14/19 3:47:49 AM
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Is magenta privilege a thing yet?
I'm not white. I'm obnoxiously pink.
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Vol2tex
12/14/19 5:09:55 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Is magenta privilege a thing yet?
I'm not white. I'm obnoxiously pink.



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