Puppyroach said:
I think all of us have rascist tendencies, conscious or subconsciously. It´s most likely biologically imprinted in our genome, to categorize and assess the world around us and always assess the threat level of other people. And we find open rascism within all groups of people, no matter the color. But the thing is, history has been fortunate for caucasian people. We are not more intelligent than any other group, we don´t have any extra skill. But many of our ancestors have been succesful in invading other nations, or having slaves. So the "white privilege" is a historical heritage that has formed the society we live in today. And even though we, in a lot of ways, have leveled the playing field when it comes to legal rights, it takes a lot longer for people´s minds to change and for them to look at other people as equals. If the roles had been reversed and people from africa had established prescence in the US and gotten slaves from Europe, we would have been talking about "black privilege" today. I think everyone should be able to bash everyone no matter what color of their skin, but we need to understand why opposition toward what white people say about black people is so strong sometimes. |
Generally when someone trots out the tired SJW white privelege lines i ask them to explain how it is that Asian Americans earn more than white Americans, have a higher college attendance rate, lower unemployment rate and a lower divorce rate than whites.It's amusing to watch the SJWs backtrack and BS their way through.In reality though it has to be due to a better work ethic, stronger cultural emphasis on "success" (whatever that is defined as by that culture) and so on.This is why the concept of racial privilege in modern America is so flawed - it encourages defeatism in African Americans while downplaying the significant achievements Asian Americans have worked so hard for.
