White Privilege

[midcan5]

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

By Tim Wise

"For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action."

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise...hite-privilege

[Epicurus]

lol

[uscitizen]

How true.

Cur welfare and medicare and medicaid. boost Bank and finiancial bailouts.

[RockX]

:lmao:

THE PDS is in full swing. I love how the article tries to make Obama so important, when actually he is a total failure.

White privilege is going to be watching Obama concede on election night after losing.

[Socrtease]

From the same blog:

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re “untested.”


[midcan5]

The conservative echo chamber cannot even comment on this piece. Interesting. But the conservative propaganda tanks and their echo chamber have created an incredible number of ideological stooges. Goldwater lost big and he was considered just a little wacky, time passes and today we have dumb and dumber with some of the scariest and wackiest ideas and the echo chamber praises them. Amazing the power of propaganda when they link armageddon jingoism and greed.


http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/09-7

"John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the "transcendent challenge" of the 21st century, "radical Islamic extremism," contrasting it with "stability, tolerance and democracy." But the values of his handpicked running mate, Sarah Palin, more resemble those of Muslim fundamentalists than they do those of the Founding Fathers. On censorship, the teaching of creationism in schools, reproductive rights, attributing government policy to God's will and climate change, Palin agrees with Hamas and Saudi Arabia rather than supporting tolerance and democratic precepts. What is the difference between Palin and a Muslim fundamentalist? Lipstick."

[RockX]

Its funny you think your chosen one is so great. Did not both Hillary and Biden more or less call Obama inexpereiced and not qualified for the job? Obama can show nothing accomplished for the 2 years in the US senate or for that matter while in the state senate. He did write two books, he did say "Present" on most all of his votes, and did have his hands out when the evil corporations came around with money.

What I don't understand is how you elected two fucking retarded governors both from the South. Based on your comments, neither one should have been elected president. How much foreign policy experience do you think either one had?

[uscitizen]

Its funny you think your chosen one is so great. Did not both Hillary and Biden more or less call Obama inexpereiced and not qualified for the job? Obama can show nothing accomplished for the 2 years in the US senate or for that matter while in the state senate. He did write two books, he did say "Present" on most all of his votes, and did have his hands out when the evil corporations came around with money.

What I don't understand is how you elected two fucking retarded governors both from the South. Based on your comments, neither one should have been elected president. How much foreign policy experience do you think either one had?

And what did our current president say about McCain ?

[RockX]

And what did our current president say about McCain ?

:lmao:

Still got a touch of that BDS I see. I did not think anyone would be able to answer the question on how the last two democrats got elected as president as well as what Obambi has accomplished.

[Minister of Truth]

The conservative echo chamber cannot even comment on this piece. Interesting. But the conservative propaganda tanks and their echo chamber have created an incredible number of ideological stooges.

I'm too busy enjoying the fruit of my white privilege. Fuck off, or I'll have to get up off my lawn chair and splash a martini in your face!

[uscitizen]

:lmao:

Still got a touch of that BDS I see. I did not think anyone would be able to answer the question on how the last two democrats got elected as president as well as what Obambi has accomplished.

The same way that McCain gets votes.

[Mott the Hoople]

Its funny you think your chosen one is so great. Did not both Hillary and Biden more or less call Obama inexpereiced and not qualified for the job? Obama can show nothing accomplished for the 2 years in the US senate or for that matter while in the state senate. He did write two books, he did say "Present" on most all of his votes, and did have his hands out when the evil corporations came around with money.

What I don't understand is how you elected two fucking retarded governors both from the South. Based on your comments, neither one should have been elected president. How much foreign policy experience do you think either one had?

Bill Clinton was also called inexperienced and proved to be the best President of the last quarter of the 20th century. What's your point?

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

White privelige?

In reality, white men are the only people who can still be legally discriminated against. *shrug*

That's a privelige I can do without.

[christiefan915]

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

By Tim Wise

"For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action."

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise...hite-privilege

Thanks, great post.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

In reality, white men are the only people who can still be legally discriminated against. *shrug*