What is white privilege?

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Why are people banging on about slavery yet again, it was part and parcel of humanity - regardless of the colour of someone's skin - since the dawn of time.

Why do white people constantly feel the need to judge white historical figures through today's modern cultural lense? Do you really hate your history that much?
 
What I don't get is the majority of people saying that a statue of x person needs to be ripped down and books/people wiped from history for something they did 300 years will be voting the US Democrat party later in the year and yet they were the party of racism for hundreds of years, they lynched both black and white Republican senators, created the KKK and held back black civil rights in the USA well beyond that of the UK and other civilised nations. How can you support a group like BLM whilst voting for a historically highly racist political party?
 
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mmj_uk said:
How can you support a group like BLM whilst voting for a historically highly racist political party?
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The democrats (in their time) have always been and remain the most explicitly racist mainstream party in the US


California Proposition 16, Repeal Proposition 209 Affirmative Action Amendment (2020)

A "yes" vote supports this constitutional amendment to repeal Proposition 209 (1996), which says that the state cannot discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting.

The proposed state constitutional amendment was originally introduced as California Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5 (ACA 5) by Assembly Members Weber, Gipson, and Santiago on January 18, 2019.
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take a wild guess which party Weber, Gipson, and Santiago are from.....
 
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Caracus2k said:
The democrats have always been and remain the most explicitly racist mainstream party in the US
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If you're going to say it, please back it up with evidence.

If your 'evidence' is a load of stuff from 100+ years ago, please just shut up, lest we get dragged into what the modern day Conservative party comes from because honestly this is freshman University spoonfed history that everybody else is well beyond and we don't owe you a duty to bring you up to speed on.
 
Newbie007 said:
Why are people banging on about slavery yet again, it was part and parcel of humanity - regardless of the colour of someone's skin - since the dawn of time. . . .
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The current preoccupation on here with statuary is a disingenuous and cynical attempt to distract attention from the everyday prejudice against people of colour right here, right now.
 
mmj_uk said:
What I don't get is the majority of people saying that a statue of x person needs to be ripped down and books/people wiped from history for something they did 300 years will be voting the US Democrat party later in the year and yet they were the party of racism for hundreds of years, they lynched both black and white Republican senators, created the KKK and held back black civil rights in the USA well beyond that of the UK and other civilised nations. How can you support a group like BLM whilst voting for a historically highly racist political party?
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Historically racist is better than an actual racist party.
 
Janesy B said:
Some inbred hillbilly probably has.
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Why would a white person have to be an inbred hillbilly to do that but it's perfectly acceptable for a black person to do so without attracting negative comments from yourself?
 
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Mushy Peas said:
If you're going to say it, please back it up with evidence.

If your 'evidence' is a load of stuff from 100+ years ago, please just shut up, lest we get dragged into what the modern day Conservative party comes from because honestly this is freshman University spoonfed history that everybody else is well beyond and we don't owe you a duty to bring you up to speed on.
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You don't have to go back 100+ years with the DNC? Just look to the Civil Rights act where more republicans were in favor than Democrats or look at elements within the Democratic party that were actively filibustering the bill. I think people bring this sort of stuff up to highlight the hypocrisy, on one hand you have a 'side' trying to cancel people and organisations for things they have done in the past whilst turning the other cheek when its less than savoury behaviour on their 'side'.
 
stockhausen said:
The current preoccupation on here with statuary is a disingenuous and cynical attempt to distract attention from the everyday prejudice against people of colour right here, right now.
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I bet a 5"2 man receives more discrimination on a daily basis than a "person of colour" (I'm not 5"2 btw).
 
Newbie007 said:
Are you sure? That was very specific :p
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Hahaha yeah, but women make a big thing about height, it's one thing to "not be tall", but to actually be a short man is worse. Average earnings is worse for short men than tall men, I think the average height of CEO's was noticeably higher than average. Short men suffer way worse, but you'll never hear about it. There's loads of disadvantages that just aren't taken into account. Like a good looking slim tall woman probably has life on easy mode, yet she's also being told that women are disadvantaged compared to men, then the 5"2 man who might also be from a poor background is being told he's got an advantage in life by the crazies on the left. It's laughable.
 
Roar87 said:
Hahaha yeah, but women make a big thing about height, it's one thing to "not be tall", but to actually be a short man is worse. Average earnings is worse for short men than tall men, I think the average height of CEO's was noticeably higher than average. Short men suffer way worse, but you'll never hear about it. There's loads of disadvantages that just aren't taken into account. Like a good looking slim tall woman probably has life on easy mode, yet she's also being told that women are disadvantaged compared to men, then the 5"2 man who might also be from a poor background is being told he's got an advantage in life by the crazies on the left. It's laughable.
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Look at Trump living life at 6ft 3
 
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