| |
Discussion: "Check Your Privilege" - Princeton Student Response
Member Since: 1/2/2014
Posts: 3,107
|
Don't give that racist troll any attention.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 25,476
|
This topic is already going to be a mess with essays about "accept ur white privilege!!!!11111", "institutionalized racism", "lol #whitetears" and other stuff. I can sense it 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 6/17/2012
Posts: 1,297
|
lol white male tears.
get over it
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 447
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 91Winchester
Wrong. I fully understand the concept of privilege, but I believe we all have it in some way. Whites, straights, males, the abled, etc. don't have it in all circumstances.
|
But the point is that when you do have it...it needs to be checked. I would think this would be a simple concept to understand...
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 9,314
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 91Winchester
Maybe if some people got off welfare and stopped breeding children they can't afford to have, a lot of problems would be solved.
|
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/12/2012
Posts: 1,507
|
Lol, I clicked the source link.
Benghazi, Glenn Beck, NRA - I can't breathe from laughing. 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 1,483
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 91Winchester
Read any hip hop forum, Twitter feeds, comment section or Lipstick Alley. White performers are always dragged while mediocre performers of the preferred race are praised to high heavens.
|
Let me rephrase that. They're praised by the general public more. Of course they're going to be dragged by hip-hop heads and fans of rap because, most of the time, they're mediocre at best yet constantly praised since they're white.
Same goes for twerking, dreads, multiple cultural piercings, etc. Its "ratchet" if you're black, "unique/trendy" if you're white.
That's white privilege in black communities.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 3/7/2014
Posts: 2,233
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Ryanicorn
This topic is already going to be a mess with essays about "institutionalized racism", "lol #whitetears" and a other stuff. I can sense it |
Perhaps, if people showed some more respect for differing perspectives on race, these threads wouldn't be so messy.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 25,476
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 91Winchester
Perhaps, if people showed some more respect for differing perspectives on race, these threads wouldn't be so messy.
|
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/1/2013
Posts: 20,022
|
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 3/7/2014
Posts: 2,233
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Ariana Grande
Let me rephrase that. They're praised by the general public more. Of course they're going to be dragged by hip-hop heads and fans of rap because, most of the time, they're mediocre at best yet constantly praised since they're white.
Same goes for twerking, dreads, multiple cultural piercings, etc. Its "ratchet" if you're black, "unique/trendy" if you're white.
That's white privilege in black communities. |
OK, that's fair, but black people who break the "mold" and show themselves to be unique individuals are also praised by society.
Examples: Pharrell, Whitney during the 80s, Travie McCoy, Rihanna, Michael Jackson, etc.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 8,021
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Vespertine
He's confusing his messy family history with the systematic oppression of minority groups for generations upon generations.
|
Yeah, I mean, what do the Jews know about systematic oppression? 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 4,779
|
being able 2 ignore the existence of privilege is a privilege in itself, which makes his essay an excellent example of what privilege is
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/5/2014
Posts: 10,002
|
"white people" "black people" ........
people
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 31,895
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Legacy
"white people" "black people" ........
people
|
This is exactly what I was thinking.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 1,483
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 91Winchester
Perhaps, if people showed some more respect for differing perspectives on race, these threads wouldn't be so messy.
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 91Winchester
Maybe if some people got off welfare and stopped breeding children they can't afford to have, a lot of problems would be solved.
|
Hm.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/20/2012
Posts: 11,335
|
But the article doesn't really address "privilege", he addresses his family's roots, that's not the same thing as privilege. Sure his family had been persecuted in the past but right now he still has pure privilege as a white, straight male. his religion and ethnicity has little to do with that.
Quote:
Originally posted by 91Winchester
You're the only one who read racism in that. White people are on welfare too, and they're included in my criticism of people.
|
Not within the context of the post you replied to. It was referencing specifically colored people and you responded with that argument. Either you know exactly what you're talking about or you didn't write that post the way you intended. Either way, it's off-topic and has nothing to do with this thread so why did you even bother bringing it up?
|
|
|
|
Banned
Member Since: 4/7/2012
Posts: 14,466
|
Well first of all POC shouldn't be telling anyone to "check their privilege" unless someone's disrespectfully disregarding the struggles of an institutionalized racist society.
I mean he's obviously doing that here, but I'm not sure if he deserved the "check your privilege" beforehand. I guess he needed to hear it anyway. idk 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 1,483
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Legacy
"white people" "black people" ........
people
|
Nah, **** the whole "I don't see race" card. If there are REAL problems, such as this, it needs to be fixed and not erased by cheesy one-liners.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 25,476
|
Quote:
|
“Behind every success, large or small, there is a story, and it isn’t always told by sex or skin color. My appearance certainly doesn’t tell the whole story, and to assume that it does and that I should apologize for it is insulting,” Fortgang writes. “While I haven’t done everything for myself up to this point in my life,someone sacrificed themselves so that I can lead a better life. But that is a legacy I am proud of.”
|
This part is definitely true for everyone of every skin color
|
|
|
|
|
|
