tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post2176805793159772298..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: "White Privilege" Isn't Really A ThingWinston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-25079094109550949702016-01-24T09:40:47.076-05:002016-01-24T09:40:47.076-05:00Thanks for the thoughtful and tactful comment, vid...Thanks for the thoughtful and tactful comment, vidoqo. <br /><br />I haven't had a chance to reply yet, but, like LC, I agree with attacking the problem via economics, as I've said around here a lot. The average net worth of black households in the U.S. was *1/10th* that of white households *before the recession*. And the economically less-well-off tend to lose ground during recoveries. Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-76125988924858855032016-01-23T16:27:19.275-05:002016-01-23T16:27:19.275-05:00Vidoqo: *like*.
I've long believed that most...Vidoqo: *like*.<br /><br />I've long believed that most economic and/or political intervention in society should be guided more by strictly *economic* factors than by identity factors...your post eloquently summarizes why. That goes especially for 'affirmative action' type programs.<br /><br />Assistance based on economics is politically loaded, but it is less politically loaded Lewis Carrollnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-60332513180736292242016-01-23T15:12:07.170-05:002016-01-23T15:12:07.170-05:00Advantage: a condition or circumstance that puts ...Advantage: a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position<br /><br />Privilege: a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people<br /><br />The point is: white people have advantages, but not privileges. We do not think it is a privilege to not be discriminated against; it is a right. To say that white The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-44277161615536974282016-01-23T13:00:15.839-05:002016-01-23T13:00:15.839-05:00Maybe I've been misunderstanding the most popu...Maybe I've been misunderstanding the most popular usage of the term, but I've always thought of "white privilege" as meaning as a broad set of cultural advantages ranging from the psychological (growing up with positive models of your ethnicity in media or literal examples of them in positions of status in society), to the financial (having inherited on average a more Vidoqohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15752427467116421393noreply@blogger.com