another race thread: white privledge

[iYen]

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

I don't like the term "White Privilege", I would say it's more like "Class Privilege".

 

[bravelude]

another captain cok thread lol

 

[RIP sleazyy]

inb4 SWSs and SBSs.

 

[iYen]

I don't like the term "White Privilege", I would say it's more like "Class Privilege".

White privilege was the topic of the video, not class privilege.

 

[Comparison Ford]

I don't like the term "White Privilege", I would say it's more like "Class Privilege".

Here's the thing though: do lower class white people have their own set of obstacles to overcome? Of course.  Do black people of similar status have those same exact obstacles AND a ton of others that the whites of similar status don't have to deal with as much (if at all)?  Absolutely.  

It would be disingenuous to say that poor whites have it just as hard as poor blacks.

I'm white, if that matters.

 

[jmob32]

I don't like the term "White Privilege", I would say it's more like "Class Privilege".

Im co-signing this. Most  "Upper Class" white ppl will treat a poor white person with as much disregard as they would a poor black person.

 

[360waves]

A great example of white privilege is Mortgage discrimination in the 1930's. White America was able to acquire land. Blacks on the other hand couldn't. That right there is already a disadvantage that "ripples" from generation to generation

 

[fontaine]

at bill O'Reilly growing up in a neighborhood that didn't allow blacks until 40 years ago

The cold part about Jim crow and segregation ending is that people think everything just got equal in 1963.

Every school got integrated,every parent stop telling their child black people were less, amd every neighborhood took their signs down.

The **** was 50 years ago... A majority of NTers parents are around that age.

It wasn't THAT long ago.

 

[RustyShackleford]

at bill O'Reilly growing up in a neighborhood that didn't allow blacks until 40 years ago

The cold part about Jim crow and segregation ending is that people think everything just got equal in 1963.

Every school got integrated,every parent stop telling their child black people were less, amd every neighborhood took their signs down.

The **** was 50 years ago... A majority of NTers parents are around that age.

It wasn't THAT long ago.

Brah we can't discuss such things. We're acting like victims

 

[victor page]

Sure let's call it class privilege.

And there's a lot of diversity when it comes to the upper class...

 

[AEA18]

Deflectors came out quick!!!

Class privilege


Repped Comparison Ford for acknowledging white privilege.

 

[sfc415]

Im co-signing this. Most  "Upper Class" white ppl will treat a poor white person with as much disregard as they would a poor black person.

This is such BS and you know it Many upper class white people view most low income white people as people who have fallen on hard times, while poor black and Latino people are called lazy, dumb, etc

 

[RustyShackleford]

I have seen rich white people use poor whites for a ton of things. But to redefine white privilege, that's a new one.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

GENERALIZATIONS WILL SURELY MAKE FOR LOGICAL, PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATION.

 

[jmob32]

This is such BS and you know it

Many upper class white people view most low income white people as people who have fallen on hard times, while poor black and Latino people are called lazy, dumb, etc

Seriously? You cant be serious about this.

 

[az102]

at bill O'Reilly growing up in a neighborhood that didn't allow blacks until 40 years ago

The cold part about Jim crow and segregation ending is that people think everything just got equal in 1963.

Every school got integrated,every parent stop telling their child black people were less, amd every neighborhood took their signs down.

The **** was 50 years ago... A majority of NTers parents are around that age.

It wasn't THAT long ago.

Exactly. People will argue that racism doesn't exist anymore but it wasn't like when Johnson signed the voting rights act in 1965 racism just up and vanished. If the Supreme Court legalizes same sex marriage alot of Americans are still not going to like homosexuals. Also why is it that racist always want to bring up that slavery ended hundreds of years ago? Do they know blacks were being lynched when our parents were kids.

 

[Comparison Ford]

 

This is such BS and you know it

Many upper class white people view most low income white people as people who have fallen on hard times, while poor black and Latino people are called lazy, dumb, etc

Seriously? You cant be serious about this.

Yeah...that one's pushing it.

Speaking as a lower-class white person that grew up in an overwhelmingly white middle-upper class town, poor whites get no sympathy.  Most are viewed as lazy, unmotivated welfare queens that should just go out and "get a job"...and if they already have a job, they should "get a better job."  

That's more of a generalized "I'm so privileged that I can't even begin to fathom how the other half lives so I'm just gonna make blind assumptions" thing than it is an exclusively racial thing.

 

[hand2handking]

still theres a benefit of the doubt given to white people with excuses like "second chances", "mental issues" etc

 

[thecoldest343]

You will run yourself ragged going back and forth on with most on this subject,it's really a waste of time.

Many upper class white people view most low income white people as people who have fallen on hard times

Yes and many lower class white people view themselves as being the quintessential of what an American is or should inspire to be;A hard working patriotic white person who doesn't take from the man serves his country,obeys the laws and proudly waves the American flag.
Anything remotely different or outside of that just isn't acceptable and the majority of the time it has absolutely nothing to do with class and everything to do with a ideology.You,them,they aren't going to threaten what they have going.

poor whites get no sympathy

Oh yeah and what sympathy do you want and from who?I can't give you something I don't receive;I say "I didn't get a job cause I'm black" or "The police stopped and frisked because I am black" and I get" that isn't true....suck it up,that happens to everyone.".
A good majority of them also are the heir's of a certain way of thinking that if it was good enough for my great-great grandfather it's ok with me or you come across those that are bitter and mad at uncle sam so they talk about their rights to bare arms,take the law into their own hands,being invaded and fighting against communist...etc.

I would halfway listen if they talked about something that will benefit all,like jobs and stopping big business from heading overseas.

 

[Comparison Ford]

Quote:

poor whites get no sympathy

Oh yeah and what sympathy do you want and from who?I can't give you something I don't receive;I say "I didn't get a job cause I'm black" or "The police stopped and frisked because I am black" and I get" that isn't true....suck it up,that happens to everyone.".
A good majority of them also are the heir's of a certain way of thinking that if it was good enough for my great-great grandfather it's ok with me or you come across those that are bitter and mad at uncle sam so they talk about their rights to bare arms,take the law into their own hands,being invaded and fighting against communist...etc.

I would halfway listen if they talked about something that will benefit all,like jobs and stopping big business from heading overseas.

Never asked for sympathy.  Just simply noted that the idea that rich whites are somehow apologetic when it comes to poor whites isn't true.  It's something I've experienced firsthand.

Not minimizing the experience of poor blacks. My first post should have made that clear.

 

[tay1]

at bill O'Reilly growing up in a neighborhood that didn't allow blacks until 40 years ago

The cold part about Jim crow and segregation ending is that people think everything just got equal in 1963.

Every school got integrated,every parent stop telling their child black people were less, amd every neighborhood took their signs down.

The **** was 50 years ago... A majority of NTers parents are around that age.

It wasn't THAT long ago.

You know what I find funny. They always try to compare or downplay our struggle to justify the actions that kept us down. People try to bring up the irish, asians, the fact that africans were involved in the slave trade, there were black slaveowners, and much more. It's sad. It's like as time goes by, people are trying to undermind the **** that put us in the position that we're in.

 

[dh1water]

Not saying it's ever happened but when was the last time you saw a 'non-white' person who chose to live beneath the poverty line or homelessness?  Like another NTer said previously, a homeless white person and a homeless person of color could be in the exact same boat and there will be additional barriers the person of color faces.  Is it right? no. Is it reality? yes. 

 

[Brownstone]

I don't get why Bill O gets the hate he gets. People don't realize he has an audience to cater to?

 

[hand2handking]

he feeds his family by profiting off of hate-mongering