What Different Kinds of Privilege?

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Good job illustrating how asinine your insistance on a distinction is.

Martin Luther King was proactive, rather than reactive.

He didn’t let “white privilege” keep him down.

True.

But it's about the society we live in at the moment. How we navigate it. Probably hard for some autistic people to understand because it's about social roles.

We need to get to a point where it doesn't matter who's privileged or not.

I think I only have white privilege when I'm in parts of England (my own experience living various places). But 50 years ago I wouldn't have had it there. So things can improve. My dad's family got treated bad and esp bad in the 70s and 80s so it can get worse as well as better. (you know that thing where Arabs are assumed to be terrorists? That hasn't always been Arabs treated that way in the UK)

I hate how global it is spoken about because of the internet. How automatic it is spoken about. That's not true, people live in specific societies around the world. Pale skin doesn't create white privilege, a society which preferences everyone with pale skin does. A society where 'what school did you go to' is a controversial question or where they judge you for your surname starting with 'o' or ending with 'stein' doesn't have universal white privilege. There is also colourism in the black community.

It was 30 years ago yesterday Rangers signed their very first Catholic player since the 1920s, they got away with that because it was common practice not to hire Catholics in the mid 20th century because they were assumed to be of Irish or Italian or Polish descent.

Actually white privilege is an accepted social psychological phenomenon, racial privilege is something Fnord made up to be neutral...

Explain that to Wolfy...

King went against the prevailing grain.

He did not give in to it.

Thurgood Marshall effected change through his insistence on universal, fundamental HUMAN rights. He insisted on equal footing amongst all people. He made use of the prevailing “white privilege” system, rather than concede to it. He didn’t place people apart based upon fundamental and ingrained “privilege.”

If he did that in 1954, he would have been laughed out of court.

So your problem is that Fnords list isn't biased in your preferred direction?

Of course, I understand discrimination. I understand it very well. I am in both oppressed and “privileged” groups.

We must stamp out all forms of it.

But I don’t believe the idea of “privilege” will inspire those who are supposedly “privileged” into action.

Basically there is no such thing as racial privilege...Fnord made it up

In psychology its referred to as "white privilege"

Great, so was it the Hutu or the Tutsi that had White priviledge?