This is a most interesting sentence. The words it contain exemplify the difficulty in having a conversation when the parties use words that do not have the same meaning to the participants. The conversation may be attempted, but communication will fail.
c'mon Marz....you're old enough to know it's been here your entire life and mine as well...goes way back...first I heard of it was from the racists I grew up around in the heartland....from literature...Langston Hughes..civil rights..you must have listened to at least Marin Luther King or Muhammed Ali? Hell the KKK have preached it for a hundred years or more
i thought about being happy today but then i remembered this thread and i rejected my privilege and continued being miserable in my white guilt. go me!
Nope! And I am plenty old enough to know it is quite new. It was coined in academia by Peggy McIntosh in 1988. Didn't go anywhere until pushed along by the Huffington Press during the Obama years and then the BLM era made it the fucking everyday thing. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortn...ople-tell-me-ive-changed-their-lives-n1837990 "Gina Crosley-Corcoran in her Huffington Post article, "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person", says that she was initially hostile to the idea that she had white privilege, initially believing, "my white skin didn't do shit to prevent me from experiencing poverty", until she was directed to read Peggy McIntosh's "Unpacking the invisible knapsack". According to Crosley-Corcoran, "the concept of intersectionality recognizes that people can be privileged in some ways and definitely not privileged in others." [11] Other writers have noted that the "academic-sounding concept of white privilege" sometimes elicits defensiveness and misunderstanding among white people, in part due to how the concept of white privilege was rapidly brought into the mainstream spotlight through social media campaigns such as Black Lives Matter.[12] Cory Weinburg, writing for Inside Higher Ed, has also stated that the concept of white privilege is frequently misinterpreted by non-academics because it is an academic concept that has been recently been brought into the mainstream. Academics interviewed by Weinburg, who have been otherwise studying white privilege undisturbed for decades, have been taken aback with the seemingly-sudden hostility from right-wing critics since 2014.[13]" ( Wiki)
it's existed in whatever term you want to call it all your life....I don't care who published it in a textbook..
Oh horse shit! The phrase was coined by that Peggy what ever. It is a modern liberal invention. I personally never heard the term until Obama used it in a speech, it might have been the first one I ever heard him speak. Now you hear it daily by some bleeding heart lib on the wail.
It's funny because the term white privilege was first used in the mid 1300's. I wonder without the use of google how many people would actually know that. As well as what it was referring to.
Kingspeed come on dude. Research some things. A lot of the black community enjoys playing victim, enjoys these white apologists "progressives" constantly shitting on white people. There are PLENTY of white people who struggle themselves, who have to work two jobs, etc. There are a lot of blacks with advantages over some whites depending on situation. To sit here and say whites just have it better these days is ridiculous. If anything, these days the white straight male is thought of as the devil. Racism will always exist to some degree but it's becoming a crutch for some blacks to rely on. Men don't get paid more, this is another myth that has been repeated so many times people believe it. Gender wage gap is false. Please watch this video. Simply men work higheer payiong jobs, engineering, etc. Women don't work the high paying jobs. Gays and blacks have come a LONG way in this country, the issue is they are constantly fed this idea they are always victims. Gay rights have come a LONG way, to ignore that is ignorant. According to people of your though, straight white males will always have it better even if we obviously didn't. It has become brainwash. Who gives a fuck what race the president is? you want a black one all the time? who ran this election that was black? we just had a black president who everybody loved for 8 years
Privelidged white liberals trying to implicate ALL white people in THEIR privelidge to not feel so alone... Fucking barf. Sorry if you're a spoiled brat, not all of us are though.
It's like the kid who gets in trouble and desperately tries to bring his friends down with him to lessen the impact of punishment.
