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You are banging your head against a door with him. Its safe to say that someone who admits they voted for the racist BNP might be..
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You are banging your head against a door with him. Its safe to say that someone who admits they voted for the racist BNP might be..
Although on the flip side I was treated like royalty when I was in Bangladesh
Maybe they worried you would invade and conquer them like the last lot of pale folk who showed up!
(I honestly don't know if Bangladesh was a colony it's hard to keep track)
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Although on the flip side I was treated like royalty when I was in Bangladesh
I found the same in India. Probably because the wealthy Indians and Arab guests where I stayed treated the staff and the locals like dirt.
Basically this. It's nothing to do with racial privilege like some claim.
It, unsurprisingly, has everything to do with financial/wealth privilege! You'll find yourself being treated better because they'll assume the paler skinned Europeans/Americans are wealthier (compared to most locals at least) and hence more likely to tip!
Hence why many understandably view the concept of multi-millionaire footballers, presenters, CEOs taking the knee in defence of "social justice" and "equality" with a level of cynicism.
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When the Egyptian staff on holiday got confused and thought my name was Muhammed I got markedly better treatment
You've never been to India have you lol? They have prime time adverts for skin whitening cream. Being white is seen as desirable.
It's only indefensible to you because you lack the intellectual width to consider it. The answer is very straightforward.
Michael Jackson syndrome.
Perception of wealth + in-group preference (Muslim).
Or perhaps something like "majority advantage". though even then, it's framing it in terms of the majority having something unusual when really, supposing the majority in society were racist, it's perhaps better framed as "minority disadvantage".
Though in a racist society are all races/ethnicities discriminated against to the same extent? Doubt it... So it might be better framed still as various [specific minorty] disadvantages, and variable between different societies.
It certainly doesn't seem to be some universal phenomenon that always favours white people.
The other issue, again touching on the idea that different minority groups might be treated differently in general too, is the level of in group preference... in the US, for example, there isn't much, if at all, in-group preference from white people towards other white people, so any majority advantage or minority disadvantage favouring white people isn't necessarily a thing (broadly), there is plenty of in-group preference within some minority groups though. If you have a significant in-group preference within a powerful minority group then that could well confer some advantage/privilege, especially if there is a lack of it in the majoirty...
The other aspect is the far lazier claims, sometimes "white privilege" is conflated with arbitrary things like simply wealth or class privilege etc.. other times it might be a reference to outcomes - this again is flawed - taking America as an example again, if white Americans are privileged based on some outcomes re: income, education etc.. then there is a similar argument to be made for Asian American, Indian American, Nigerian American and Jewish American privilege, which apparently has an even greater effect than white privilege.
Stop what? Challenging those posting complete rubbish yet again without any credence to actually back up their arguments?
BINGO. We have a winner. Someone who can actually think.
So why might Australians be preferred in the UK to say an Iraqi? Well...
1, they speak the same language (mostly)
2, shared history, Oz being a British colony at one point and populated largely by individuals with a British heritage.
3, shared head of state.
4, shared culture. We have similar cuisine although theirs has evolved traits of its own as has ours in the last 100 years but the same basis is still there, we share many of the same sporting interests and have long-founded rivalries based upon this, our religious heritage is similar.
I havent seen their posts nor do i actually care. Explain how its logical before the threads locked.
And that's you in a nut-shell. You are so blinkered by your own bigoted point of view that you are actually mentally incapable of considering other options or reasoning.
It's been explained several times by several people how it's logical, including myself and both of those I linked to in my reply.
I haven't seen yours either tbf what are we talking about?
My point was you'll always have a bit of a crap time when your the odd one out.
I can't remember if I'm meant to agree with dowie or not!
it depends whether you prescribe to the theory that Dowie is an awful racist/apologist or whether you actually bother to read and understand what he writes and see the merits in it, whether you agree with his opinion or not. I find you to be the latter
You're talking utter nonsense. I want to know why :
"If the current rate of non-white immigration continues WHITE brits will be a minority by 2060"
I responded to another poster with
"Thing is...they seemingly only care about colour in the first part of the sentence then say white "brits". If we have an influx of white Aussies come which they are seemingly ok with they arent white brits either...bizarre"
Of which you said is perfectly logical. I cannot see a response to that by any poster here as to why it is.
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