Bob Clasen

"Privilege” makes some sense if separated from race. Some white people grow up with few advantages. Some blacks are quite privileged. Race is also a murky designation. People are increasingly a mixture of different races, more and more as time goes on. Talking about "white privileged” as if being white is the only significant factor is nonsense.

Michael Lorre adds:

"Privilege" was invented because a) the marxists who now self identify as "woke" wore out ranting about "class" because they realized Americans, as de Toqueville commented, ALL behave as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" and aspire to become rich through thrift and hustle, and have no tolerance for the idea of class warfare. and b) poor whites have no obvious structural impediments to upward mobility, other than their own poor education, their mockery of book learning, and suspicion of hard work and science, lack of interest in saving and investing, but few poor whites have actual interest in marxism (because reading that drivel is more book learnin' and they know they are the the real cause of their own poverty). and c) racial minorities have an easy visible barrier to upward mobility, i.e. skin color, while of course women are also visibly distinct from the people at the top of the economic ladder, so its relatively easy to point to those obvious visible distinctions as the cause of their problems, while ignoring all the poverty stricken poor white males who actually outnumber the others as "privileged" who are the real worthless people because they dont take advantage of their privilege like the minorities would if they had it.

Tim adds:

"Race" now means a state of mind. A person who supports the traditional American culture and economic system is "white" and those who opppose it are not. I remember a Jewish media guy (can't remember who it was offhand) who was angry at being called white "I'm not white, I'm Jewish". ???? In other words he doesnt IDENTIFY as white and so he is not. And many black people are called white by other blacks, blacks who do not like America. Oreos they call them. But in the end it's not about color or sex or much of any of the things they use to justify it - it's about believing in our nation, our culture, our way of life, and our economic system. Anyone who supports that is a white man and definitionally "privileged". Even if you come from poverty.

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