White Privilege must have skipped me, I was always one of the poorest in my class growing up in a school in Harrow, London.
Dad ****** off so mum raised us by herself on low income support.
Low income lunch tickets making us queue up so everyone knew whose parents couldn't afford the lunch,
Not being able to pay for school trips
Getting my first job at 11 to pay for my first pair of rollerblades, while my asian friends had the best pairs.
Riding to college on my ****** BMX while paying for driving lessons from a job stacking heavy bags of cement and compost in homebase, while all the asian kids had their license already and a VW Golf paid for by mummy and daddy.
And this is what i pointed to above about the error of the term white privilege. It has nothing to do with you having more or less than any racial group. It is only to do with whether you can honestly claim whether when going for a job or talking with people or being stopped by the police you can honestly say...you had any real concern that the colour of your skin might prejudice those people against you, make them discount your hard work in favor of someone of their own skin colour. White privilege is not about financial pressures it is specifically the absence of racial pre-judgement. As with all thing it is a generalisation and is likely true as often as it is wrong.
I will agree with other points people have raised that the use of white privilege to justify positive discrimination is perhaps past its day and should honestly be looked at to determine if it has any real benefit anymore.
I've said it before but if you're a genuine racist you aren't going to get anywhere today by being transparent about it, but if you pretend to be championing minorities whilst constantly shafting the majority white population you're going to cause division and eventually you're going to get a backlash.
The left who claim to be fighting racism have turned what Martin Luther King fought for on its head whilst looking like they are championing minority rights, he wanted people to be judged by character and not skin colour, you had charities like the Colour Blind Society. Today, the left are absolutely obsessed with skin colour and sorting people into distinct groups and treating people differently based on racial characteristics. I've joked about it before but it won't be long until they're promoting segregation as some kind of positive thing for minorities. Both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden worshipped a former KKK grand master or whatever his title was, the KKK were a wing of the Democrat party. The Democrats have been promising black Americans all sorts for decades in exchange for votes and have never delivered, Trump becomes president and within 3 years you have record black employment.
To my mind white privilege is like a Monopoly Get Out Of Jail Free. It's a potentialbonus in life you may or may not ever get to use.
But to my mind it's a slightly stupid statement. I get it. Some day you may benefit from being white but it doesn't mean to say that you have done so in the past or will do so in the future.
I mean you find this type of thing all the time in life. I used to frequently get hauled over by the police for driving too fast. I was let always let off because I was driving the flash company car and the policeman took one look at the scruffy driver and warned me that he would tell my boss if he caught me again. Nuts to you, mr policeman, I owned the company, I was the boss. Ooh, shock horror, I didn't dress like the boss, so they didn't think I was the boss. Stereotyping works all ways. You win some, you lose some. I don't think you can ever teach people not to stereotype.
That damm white privilege again.... and thoose *check notes* Indian heritage Muslims whoose parents entered the UK dirt poor in the 1970's....
Two billionaire brothers raised in a terraced house in Blackburn are now taking the reins at one of the UK’s biggest employers after sealing a £6.8 billion deal to buy Asda. Mohsin and Zuber Issa made their fortunes after successfully transforming their business from one rented petrol station into a network of almost 6,000 forecourts across 10 countries. Their parents, Vali and Zubeda, moved to the UK in the 1970s to work in the textile industry, moving from Gujarat, India, to Bradford. They later ran their own petrol station, where the brothers worked as teenagers, before selling it after deciding there was little profit to be made.
After flying the nest, the brothers decided to take a punt of their own, leasing a forecourt for two years before stumping up the £150,000 needed to buy their first site outright in 2001. The brothers, now 48 and 49, tested their idea for a “better shopping experience” by investing to offer a wider range of fresh food and high-quality produce.
The fledgling business, named Euro Garages before its recent rebrand to EG Group, rapidly expanded as oil companies sought to shed their estates of dated forecourts. They attracted customers by bringing big food-to-go brands on to their sites, opening the UK’s first Starbucks drive-thru. EG Group now operates 110 Starbucks stores as well as the largest franchise of KFC stores in the UK, with 125 sites.
And this is what i pointed to above about the error of the term white privilege. It has nothing to do with you having more or less than any racial group. It is only to do with whether you can honestly claim whether when going for a job or talking with people or being stopped by the police you can honestly say...you had any real concern that the colour of your skin might prejudice those people against you, make them discount your hard work in favor of someone of their own skin colour. White privilege is not about financial pressures it is specifically the absence of racial pre-judgement. As with all thing it is a generalisation and is likely true as often as it is wrong.
This isnt "white privellege" its in group racial preference...... Something that's very widespread in pretty much all racial groups and societies whether majority white or not....
This is really basic stuff....
The only explicit legal systemic racism in hiring in the UK and USA is in the favour of non whites......
....that strange "white privellege" that causes the differences we see for example where Chinese people get stopped and searched at 25% the rate of whites...... And Indians at about the same rate....
Its not "white privilege" its a reflection of the significantly varying rates at which different ethnicities commit crime on average.
Yes they may, but unless you know something about biology that has alluded racists everywhere, the committing of crimes by certain racial groups has nothing to do with them being part of the racial group in any biological sense. It likely is a result of socio economic reasons or simply they are just bad eggs but ultimately has little to do with their skin colour. Correlation is not causation and to use it as such only serves to simplify complex matters for political talking points and sensationalist media to scare certain parts of the nation.
This isnt "white privellege" its in group racial preference...... Something that's very widespread in pretty much all racial groups and societies whether majority white or not....
This is really basic stuff....
The only explicit legal systemic racism in hiring in the UK and USA is in the favour of non whites......
....that strange "white privellege" that causes the differences we see for example where Chinese people get stopped and searched at 25% the rate of whites...... And Indians at about the same rate....
Its not "white privilege" its a reflection of the significantly varying rates at which different ethnicities commit crime on average.
The stop and search thing is mostly done in the real ****** places where people keep getting stabbed, like Hackney. So OFC it's going to be mainly black...
It's a cultural thing but it's sucking in mainly young black guys. They are being groomed and recruited by "gangs" just as young white people were by Nazi Germany back in the 20-40s.
Yes they may, but unless you know something about biology that has alluded racists everywhere, the committing of crimes by certain racial groups has nothing to do with them being part of the racial group in any biological sense. It likely is a result of socio economic reasons or simply they are just bad eggs but ultimately has little to do with their skin colour. Correlation is not causation and to use it as such only serves to simplify complex matters for political talking points and sensationalist media to scare certain parts of the nation.
Not all cultures are equal when it comes to promoting better outcomes like reduced incarceration, better exam results and rates of participation in higher education and higher average incomes.
Whites in places like the UK and US, on average, underperform groups like Indians and Koreans (in things like average wages , incarceration rates etc) not because of racism but because they, on average, have adopted inferior cultures to the former groups. Similiar patterns apply to other racial/cultural groups.
Were you looking in the mirror when you wrote that...
You are acting like white racists agitators werent going on about how the white working class men were being overlooked and down trodden for the last decade yand constantly complaining about it and also using it as reason to justify brexit. Many of you even went a bit mental when Jon Snow said Ive never seen such a large group of white men before, or something like that.
You are acting like white racists agitators werent going on about how the white working class men were being overlooked and down trodden for the last decade yand constantly complaining about it and also using it as reason to justify brexit. Many of you even went a bit mental when Jon Snow said Ive never seen such a large group of white men before, or something like that.
You are acting like white racists agitators werent going on about how the white working class men were being overlooked and down trodden for the last decade
It's demonstrably true that the poor white working class have been overlooked in favour of other groups in places like the UK and USA.
An action which in of itself is racist because they (the poor white working class) are one of the worst performing of all groups when it comes to many key metrics in these countries and therefore should be the focus of some of the strongest efforts to seek to improve outcomes.
Again its a demonstrable fact that the EU project hurt the working class. Even the arguably EU biased economic studies completed showed that it was the economically poor existing groups in the UK (who are numerically mostly white) who lost out from FOM financially whilst also bearing the brunt of the problems associated with a growing population (solely the result of migration) which include, but are not necessarily limited to, competition for existing services and rising housing costs
and we hit the pièce de résistance of good ole Tony's misguided diatribe.....
He know's full well that if a BBC reporter had attended an event in the UK that was mostly comprised of a particular non white group and had gone onto make a similar comment in the way Jon Snow did that eyebrows would have been raised and social media would have kick into high gear over it......
But in his usual disingenuous fashion he glosses over it trying to feign some level of ignorance over what was said and in what manner....
"when Jon Snow said Ive never seen such a large group of white men before, or something like that"
Ultimately the whole core of the ideology of "white privilege" is necessarily racist because it has to claim that there is something different, indeed something exceptional about whites when compared to other racial groups.
Bergdorf exemplified this rancid ideology in their comments that Tony tried to claim he had not seen....
Bergdorf posted: said:
"Honestly I don't have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people. Because most of ya'll don't even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour. Your entire existence is drenched in racism. From micro-aggression to terrorism, you guys built the blueprint for this ****. Once white people begin to admit that their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth… then we can talk. Until then stay acting shocked about how the world continues to stay ****ed at the hands of your ancestors and your heads that remain buried in the sand with hands over your ears."
The reality of course is that pretty much all of human settled civilisation, of any type, has been built on the 'backs of blood and death of *insert other out group here*'
The successive waves of Bantu expansion originating from West Africa saw other black tribes destroyed or 'absorbed' by the incomers. This violent expansion lead to the Zulu's under Shaka launching the Mfecane 'The Crushing'....
The Zulu's are (not always so well) remembered for their vicious warmongering and expansionist drive (launched under Shaka) through the south of the African continent which is known as the Mfecane 'The Crushing'
'The Zulu practice was to absorb only the women and young men of a clan or village. They killed the elderly and men of fighting age; the lucky ones escaped.'
It was of course this expansionistic, bloodthirsty warmongering that bought the Zulu's into conflict with another, at the time, colonialist force, The British Empire, around the time of the Battle of Rourke's drift .
Fast forward to today and we have the wonderful 'Rainbow nation' that is South Africa complete with legitimised open state racism against whites and we find a fairly recently re dedicated airport named in honour of the bloodthirsty murdering tyrant that was Shaka....
Of course the good old BBC described Shaka rather euphemistically as being a 'Warrior King' where as they describe a white man (who was arguably far less destructive in his time), Cecil Rhodes as being an'imperialist'
The Mongol empire was and still is unprecedented when it comes to the relative scale of murder, rape and pillaging conducted by a colonial enterprise.
In truth there's nothing particularly exceptional about white Europeans in terms of their inherent capacity for empathy, kindness to others, warmongering or inflicting suffering on others... The only reason we are in the current situation we find ourselves in is because the Renaissance and subsequent Enlightenment period occurred in Europe rather than somewhere else that could have feasibly of followed a similar path (such as the Middle East or China) and it was this process that ultimately lead to the general abolition of things like slavery and a widening consensus amongst many nations that it should generally be considered a bad thing to go abroad to conquer other nations.
But Critical Race Theory and its associated ideology of "white privilege" necessarily must insist that there's something *special* about whites that means it's different when they have done or do things that many other groups have done or continue to do.
CRT and it associated ideology of "white privilege" are white supremacy with a guilty conscience. Which is presumably why these ideas appeal so much to socialists and (often pseudu) academics that despise their own countries and think that they uniquely are smart enough to build their imagined utopia right on top of the remains of the current systems they are so keen to have pulled to the ground.
Twitter is a cesspit of people itching to be offended about everything and anything, 24/7, all the time.
And of the rest, a lot are apparently idiots.
The Labour MP for Luton North, Sarah Owen, said on Twitter the "offensive advert shows exactly why we need Black History Month and why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important".
According to Sky news British made riot shields have been used at riots/protests in America acting as if its a big scandal i think most people will just shrug their shoulders and say so what im sick of the media virtue signalling and pandering to BLM its enough now.
Yeah and if the police do stop and ask you some questions be civil we have all seen the videos with them kicking off with the police a large crowd gathers and they start getting aggressive with the police.
According to Sky news British made riot shields have been used at riots/protests in America acting as if its a big scandal i think most people will just shrug their shoulders and say so what im sick of the media virtue signalling and pandering to BLM its enough now.
It's reached the point where basically we just need to ignore the "news" and the media in general. They're either deliberately stirring things or making mountains out of molehills, or "reporting" on Twitter storms, for nefarious reasons. "Journalism" has become tainted with various agendas, and the need for 24hr "news" has given every stupid little thing intense media coverage far beyond what it actually deserves.
The whole thing has just reached levels of stupidity that were unknown a few years ago.
@FoxEye Last year there was a BBC report that was discussing a topic of such significance that they could let us know Stormzy had tweeted about it 17 times!!!!
I've never joined twiter and by and large very rarely check out anything linked there it seems like the 24 hour news cycle on steroids without any journalistic objectivity. And somehow it seems to have become the first place our news looks for anything these days. Madness.
The World and the news especially is speeding up, when what we need is for it all to slow the F down so there is time for reflection not reaction.
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