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Ignoring the reality of white privilege for the purpose of policy-making seems pretty stupid.
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Tah. O’Reilly came in like a gorilla, all bluster and bromides, but when you stripped it all away there was one little blinking mouse of an argument: It’s not as bad as it was, and some people surmount the difficulties and achieve things, with the nearly-stated implication that because that happens the prejudice and hardships aren’t there at all, somehow. OK yes it’s a canard masquerading as an argument, calculated to let racists believe that any problem is due to a “culture of poverty.”
It MAKES ME NUTS ok I’m calming down now.
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Why hasn’t this video gone viral?
one little blinking mouse of an argument
I hates thems meeses to pieces…
The non-existence of white privilege is one of the fundemental principles of Foxthink. To admit its existence is to threaten the entire edifice with collapse (not but what the Outer Party members aren’t perfectly capable of doublethinking the entire edifice right back into existence after a day and a half to three days of existential crisis, of course).
It’s like the sacrosanct principle that the Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery and would have happened even if there had been no slavery. It’s a thing you have to tell people to mobilize them to defend the very thing whose existence is denied.
Mobilizing people to defend acknowledged injustice is next to impossible. We’re social creatures and we are hardwired, to some extent, to rebel against injustice. It has to be concealed and disguised or twisted around into a positive good. If you have complete control over all institutions and means of mass communication, it’s possible to convince people that slavery is just part of the natural order, that minorities are subhuman, or that it’s necessary to make perpetual war against your neighbors in order to capture people to sacrifice to the sun god.
When you don’t have that total monopoly, however, you have to convince them that the injustice doesn’t exist, that it’s a base slander against you contrived by an utterly-depraved and malign enemy in order to justify the perpetration of injustice against you.
Getting an Inner Party orator like O’Reilly to admit that there’s such a thing as white privilege is impossible.
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O’Reilly is a great big idiot. Perhaps if someone explained to him how his father had to make calculations about his life based upon being Catholic, it might change his mind, but it won’t. BillO is pretty much nothing more than a White Supremacist at this point.
I haven’t seen any evidence of white privilege, so it must not exist. /
His tortured logic makes him sound like an idiot.
(1.) conceded that “whites didn’t have it as bad as blacks,”
(2.) says that he does believe it’s harder for blacks to succeed in America
But clings to the idea that there is no such a thing as white privilege?
He is like the guy who agrees that there is organized crime - but argues that the “Mafia” does not exist. …
at the best, he is just arguing over semantics - at the worst, he is simply and unethically enriching himself by pandering to a strident, bigoted audience that craves hearing that blacks are whining - and without any justification - which then lets them pretend that they have ‘justification’ to perpetuate their bigoted argument that blacks just want handouts. Joseph Goebbels would look at O’Reilly in awe.
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Ah sure Bill …but what about educational attainment, socioeconomic mobility and societal assimilation?
I have lived overseas for seven years and visited over a hundred countries and 53 (soon to be 54) of the states, so I have been exposed to a lot of different cultures and peoples. But when I moved to Alabama (because of my wife’s work) I was astounded at the reach of “white privilege.” I have watched one of Alabama’s Senators, after checking to see that no minorities were present and closing the door, relate that his family once owned over 150 slaved in what he described as “better times.” I have watched the other Senator speak of his close ties to the KKK and Aryan Brotherhood. But what has really astonished me is the presumption that because I am white, that it is okay to use the N-work and especially in reference to the President.
I used to tell people that the Japanese were the most racist people I had ever met as a whole. But I think Alabamians (not Americans) have them beat by a wide margin.
Damn! He O’really believes the shit he spews!
I find your comment extremely interesting especially about the senator who dropped the N-word on the president. So much for those who don’t want to believe that race isn’t a factor when it comes to the president.
Are we the party of white privilege and the racism of low expectations? If not, then why are we promoting it and underscoring its existence? Ought we not celebrate its decline, while pointing out and contrasting our efforts in that decline? Of course history is clear, and of course generation upon generation of poverty and subsistence on public dole are not progenitors of economic ascension, but the fact remains that opportunity now exists for all who wish to work hard and live responsibly. We ought not reinforce excuses, and be cheerleaders, for failure.
WHAT! You are as obtuse as O’Reilly. You are still trying to deny what is still going on to this day. I wonder how it feels to wish something were not so like you do. I wonder what it would feel like to NOT have to worry about the color of my skin. I wonder what it would feel like NOT to worry that my son could be shot just for driving to school. I wonder what it would feel like to plan a trip and NOT have to research how the area feels towards black people. I wonder what it would feel like NOT to have to listen to folks like you. I wonder . . . . .