Thread: White Privilege

Originally Posted by High Hunter

I think it's weird how other cultures, races, or "colors", never really complain about this kind of stuff. It seems like african americans really want full power. White people forcefully took America from the natives, and you never see them ranting about how they should be equal. I understand and ackowledge the brutal past...african american were brought here as slaves, which is horrible, but now they are at peace. Isn't that enough?

I mean the Whites have privileges here, because they took over the land. If asians took over America back then, would people always hate on yellow privileges? (lol I don't mean that in a racist way at all). It doesn't makes sense to me. Asians and all kinds of new cultures are allowed within now, and are just as powerful as whites and blacks nowadays. I mean look at the president-elect.

Jesus Christ guys.

Where are you two getting off making this about blacks complaining? This is NOT another "Beat a white kid day" thread. This is me extracting views/opinions on what the author wrote in the OP! High Hunter, you're a great guy...but frankly I just don't see how your post was relevant to the thread. By that I mean I'm not asking for explanations regarding why white privilege exist...I learned that in U.S. History back in high school...I'm asking for personal experiences that it may be evident in in your life or your views on WP itself.

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

Agreed. Racism isn't going away.. It's just changing into racism against whites.

How do you figure?

Originally Posted by Jeff777

Jesus Christ guys.

Where are you two getting off making this about blacks complaining? This is NOT another "Beat a white kid day" thread! This is me extracting views/opinions on what the author wrote in the OP!

Lol, sorry man, I didn't mean it that way. But you gotta understand where we're coming from... I'm just tired of hearing about this kind of stuff. With Obama being president, these "white privileges" will slowly dissipitate, that's what I think. I personally view blacks as down right equals to me nowadays.

That's all I'm saying

Originally Posted by High Hunter

Lol, sorry man, I didn't mean it that way. But you gotta understand where we're coming from... I'm just tired of hearing about this kind of stuff. With Obama being president, these "white privileges" will slowly dissipitate, that's what I think. I personally view blacks as down right equals to me nowadays.

That's all I'm saying

Digressing from the purpose of the OP a bit...I understand where you're coming from. I also get pissed off sometimes when I hear people of my own race and other minorities saying "Obama's going to fix everything now!". Not to mention play the role of the victim and blame their current mess/problems on other races. What Bill Cosby said on Oprah was damn right. At any rate back on topic

I gave you my views on "white privilege" but you don't want to hear them.
This discussion is pointless.

To sum it up: I think white privilege is good. To some extent. We need variation.

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

To sum it up: I think white privilege is good. To some extent. We need variation.

Now we're on the right track . Now tell me why you think that?

Originally Posted by Jeff777

Now we're on the right track . Now tell me why you think that?

I already told you. Globalization is a threat. No culture should ever bow down to another - including western culture.

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

I already told you. Globalization is a threat. No culture should ever bow down to another - including western culture.

And you think white privilege prevents this? How? White privilege has been around as long as racism and if Globalization is gaining, I'm not sure how you see white privilege as "fending this off".

Originally Posted by Jeff777

And you think white privilege prevents this? How? White privilege has been around as long as racism and if Globalization is gaining, I'm not sure how you see white privilege as "fending this off".

White privilege in white areas - black privilege in black areas - Asian privilage in Asian areas etc... I'm not saying non whites should have less rights than whites in white areas - I mean that our western culture should remain unchanged and unaffected by the other cultures. "Pure".
Smaller cultures are absorbed and destroyed by globalization. By remaining loyal to your own culture in your country you can prevent being sucked up by the system.