White privilege is fictional because it doesn't exist. That's what fictional means. It's made up. It's racist because anything that assumes any one person will act a certain way, have a certain amount of money, experience life the same way, or think the same way by dint of skin color is racist. Being racist in that way denies the fact that we are all made in God's image, separately and apart from each other, with unique desires, dreams, skills and abilities that lead us to different outcomes. You instead lump white people into one group and tell them to be quiet and accept some collective guilt for actions of dead people who may or may not have looked like them. Next you demand those white people accept the ridiculously and monstrously fictional notion that they have had some manner of privilege because of their skin color - that poor white people are privileged while rich black people are victims. It beggars belief and is pure, unadulterated evil.Shippou said:How's it fictional and racist to acknowledge that your life is different than mine and has never been impacted by your skin color?Bearitto said:The notion of white privilege is both fictional and extraordinarily racist. Racial sin, racial victimization and racial accountability are pure evil. Anyone who advocates it is equally evil.bear2be2 said:nein51 said:
Let's just say that white privilege exists, it's a thing, I acknowledge it and I can get 10 of my friends to acknowledge it and they can get 10 of their friends to acknowledge it...we will all hold hands and loudly and proudly say we are privileged...now what or better stated, so what?
I see so many arguments for "white people just need to acknowledge their privilege"...ok, done, so what do you want next?
I think the idea is that if you can see and acknowledge where your privilege exists, you'll start to more easily see where others' doesn't and stop ignoring/denying the existence of problems that black people have been telling us for years are problems.
One of the biggest takeaways I've had from this period in our history is that black people are looking for white allies to help them convince other white people that they're not making these issues up. And it's not just radical, militant BLM types who are asking for this. It's the people in our communities that we interact with regularly. Our black friends and neighbors are telling us they're dealing with these things and we haven't done a very good job of listening -- largely because our experiences haven't matched theirs.
So to me, that's the next step. Once we've acknowledged that inequality still exists in the treatment of whites and blacks in our society, we can try to help others see this and understand that a more just society that truly treats everyone as equals is better for everybody.
Not only is the notion evil and racist on it's face, the demands for reparations, predicate upon it, from one group of people with one skin color to another group of people with another skin color is effectively collective "Corruption of blood", which is made unconstitutional in Article 3 of the Constitution....not that leftists care about the constitution.
'Social justice' is not justice. 'Racial justice' is not justice. Justice is and ever only was one individual getting what that one individual deserves in accordance with that one individual's actions. Collective guilt and collective martyrdom are the stuff of marxism. This is not only evil, but it's the new proletariat (POC) v. bourgeoisie (white) and it's meant to do one thing...destroy our country.