Oh Good Lord, spare us the tripe. Go get some Aryan Nation tattoos and see if you don't get stared at. Start wearing biker clothes and riding a custom Harley and see if you don't get stared at. For that matter, dress up in your Sunday best and go to church and see if the liberals don't call you an extremist, a racist and a homophobe.Zen wrote:That may be true, but that's not the point of the quote. As a white male, I'm not going to start getting stared at by people thinking I may be a terrorist.
Baloney. I work with Middle Eastern men. NONE of them get stared at. Now board an airplane in Arab garb muttering Allahu Akbar over and over and looking around furtively and you're darn right. I'll be keeping an eye on you the whole flight. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the color of your skin or the place of your birth.Zen wrote:The same is not true of a middle eastern man.
Again, baloney. Black teens walk in to 7-11's all over America without being profiled. Walk in with a hoodie pulled tight around your face and your hands in your pockets and even Jesse Jackson admits he's going to move to the other side of the aisle.Zen wrote:I'm not going to draw the same concern when I walk into a 7-11 that a black teen would.
Then you need to get out more. It's not hard to understand the plight of people who have been discriminated against. You just have to get to know them and have them open up to you.Zen wrote:As a white male, I will never know that feeling, at least in the U.S.
If you can't see it, did it ever occur to you that it might not exist?Zen wrote:Most "whites" are not even aware of this "privilege" because they have not seen it.
White privilege is the biggest lie the left has ever told. It's the purest form of lie because it's not even based on a truth. Ask the poor white farmer in Arkansas how privileged he feels. Yet liberals would claim he is simply because of the color of his skin. If you can't see that's racism, you're not looking.