The Batlord

White privilege doesn't have to be a Bond villain.

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DwnWthVwls

I didn't say there was one.. I was responding to what I thought was the topic of systematic white privilege.

But if you want to follow that line of reasoning: if society recognizes some sort of privilege exists for a specific group and creates legislation, or whatever, to address it than what are we left with? Is white privilege still a thing or just some philosophical race bating dialogue? And how do you go about determining if the scales are balanced?

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Frownland

Just to be fair, my definition is widespread benefits based off of paradigms built on a history of legislatively systemic privilege.

I don't think that legislation is the right approach because it would be too difficult to write without pitfalls and too hard to overturn once those pitfalls are reached. Education and awareness is the best approach on top of encouraging diversity to remove those implicit biases.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

DwnWthVwls

You and I both know that "education and awareness" is not good enough for people, because bandaids are better than solutions. Also, ain't no one got time for that.

Using your definition can you give me an example of non-systematic white privilege?

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Frownland

Are you referring to effectiveness or the public's perception that we've "done enough"?

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873.pdf

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DwnWthVwls

I'm referring to effectiveness, but that's the thing, no matter how much you do, "lesser privileged" people will always search for justification for why things are not equal across the board while simultaneously insisting on certain freedoms. I don't think the it is possible for the two to coexist. I'm getting way off topic here.

I hate you. I'm not reading that now, maybe this weekend if I'm motivated.

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Frownland

This pleases me. How

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Neapolitan

I don't know about that. I think solutions like Betadine are better than band-aids, unless you are talking band-aids that contain ointment e.g. Neosporin.

I think people should take time to clean the wound and use solutions. If a wound isn't properly cleansed then all a band-aids does in trap in germs.

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Chula Vista

Leave me the **** out of this stupid discussion.

You ****ing eggheads have at it.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Ikr

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.