Wrong on all counts. Given who you supported you are the one that wants to stop freedom of religion, the right to bear arms and all 4th and 6th Amendment rights
Wrong on all counts. Given who you supported you are the one that wants to stop freedom of religion, the right to bear arms and all 4th and 6th Amendment rightsGiven who you support, it's pretty obvious that you're delighted to drop civil liberties. No freedom of the press, no freedom of religion, no voting rights for minorities...
Wrong on all counts. Given who you supported you are the one that wants to stop freedom of religion, the right to bear arms and all 4th and 6th Amendment rights
I'm fine with freedom of religion. Where did I (or indeed, most people on the left) say I was against it? I'm also fine with all those amendments, although I don't fetishize the 2nd like you do.
Meanwhile, Sinclair is forcing broadcasters to be mindless right-wing propaganda machines, with Trump's blessing. Will you do the only acceptable thing and condemn both Sinclair and Trump for eroding freedom of the press?
Sinclair isn’t being forced by the government to say (or not say) things so “eroding freedom of the press” not found. The 1A guarantees aren’t a promise the government will stop you from using your freedom of speech to say things which are stupid which is what Sinclair is doing.
LOL! I don't think it would hurt society one bit if BLACK WOMEN men lost the right to vote for 20 years.
Younigue said:LOL! Obviously it's not possible. That doesn't change my opinion that society would likely benefit from BLACK WOMEN having to shut up for 20 years. It'll give the worst of them a chance to die off while society teaches the rest of them how to get their misplaced FEMININITY, greed, preferred lack of emotional connectivity and blood lust under control.
Me? Against who? Men or Old men? Maybe white men? I'll let my white husband know immediately! He's downright pastey, he'll be devastated under the laughter.
What he didn't ask me is if given the opportunity if I would take white men's vote away. I would not.
My hostility is toward Trumpublicans. Far too many of them are very hateful, profoundly insecure white men. That makes me sad. Still wouldn't take their vote away but I do judge them.
Obviously behavior plays into how you will be treated, but it doesn't play into privilege because it is socially acceptable for behavior to influence how you are treated. On the other hand, in my opinion it is socially unacceptable for skin color, gender, sexual orientation, etc to influence how you are treated, but frequently these things do.
Would your poor behavior involve having a cell phone in your hand? Not being white? Is your neighborhood diverse?
I suspect you understand this subject better than you're suggesting or want to believe.
As a whitey I never ever worry about being shot by the police and I even gave an officer a hard time about ticketing me for drinking and driving 27 years ago. I've never been in a store and had anyone assume I'd steal from them even though as a teenager I stole several pairs of longjohn's with a group of girls. We weren't even particular subtle in our thievery. I've never been suspected of being a terrorist, in this I have no example, I've never destroyed other people's properties or lives but if I were inclined to do far to many cops would have to sift through their biases before they'd even consider looking in my direction. More so because I'm white and female.
To have privilege and not be aware of it is a lie one tells themselves. Truly, being born white in America even if you have a horrendous life buys you privilege.
What the privileged should do is stand by their fellow humans and demand equal rights, equal due process, equal pay, equal opportunities. But too often the privilege consciously or subconsciously fear losing their own privileges. It's ugly but true.
Or you could just spend 15 minutes searching Youtube and find plenty of videos of black people getting pulled over for minor traffic violations and cops approaching the car with guns drawn. You ever have a cop approach your car with his gun drawn after getting pulled over for speeding or a broken tail light? I sure haven't.
White people and black people use drugs at roughly the same rate but do a quick google search on the percentage of white/black people in jail on drug charges. They have even done studies where they would call companies looking to hire and give names that sounded white and names that sounded black but with the same qualifications and the "white" names got called back a lot more. Or maybe they sent in applications or something, I don't recall the specifics but I am sure you could find a few of them if you are even remotely interested in the topic like you claim to be.
To some degree, but that's highlighting fear of being wrong or social repercussion. Certainly that's present, but even if I wanted I really wasn't taught how to recognize my feelings and how to express them in language that allowed me to own how I felt whether it was accepted or not. No one modeled those discussions. When race came up it was either idealized equality strances or it was harsh protective/prejudiced. Part of it was my general community was virtually homogenous. I was able to avoid confronting my feelings and my biases all my life, and still can and to some degree do. But being able to do that is privilege. And I've certainly benefited from it without appreciating it as such.
Yes. I was once surrounded by police cars with weapons drawn because they thought I was a drunk driver who had nearly hit a pedestrian. Turns out the drunk wasn't the only person in the area driving a red Pontiac Grand Am. I kept my hands on the steering wheel, followed their commands, and it became quickly evident I wasn't the person they were looking for. Had I handled that situation EXACTLY the same way but had black skin are you saying I should expect a different outcome?
Statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services don't seem to support that. Whites report illicit drug use at 9.5%, Blacks at 10.5%, and people reporting two or more races 17.4%.
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHresultsPDFWHTML2013/Web/NSDUHresults2013.pdf - page 29
What percentage of blacks and whites convicted of drug charges have a previous criminal record, specifically felony or violent felony history? If there's a difference, could that account for part of the sentencing discrepancy?
I remember that study and I think it paints a clear picture that individual racism and racial bias is alive and well. But if a HR person does not pass along a resume of a black candidate does that make the company itself racist? If the company were made aware of this is it likely they would change?
I would say there is very little doubt that institutional racism is still a major issue in America. Look no further than Trump pardoning Shapiro, excusing him for his very blatant implementation of institutionalized racism. Consider reactions from Trump when a shooter is non-white compared to white. Look at America's initial response to AIDS back in the 80s and 90s. As others have stated, look at drug use vs drug convictions. Look at juvenile crime statistics. Look at implementation of the death penalty. Institutional racism is still pervasive in American society. It might not be as blatant as it was 50 years ago, but we still have a lot of improvements we can make. This isn't to say that every white male is to blame. This is simply saying that a problem exists and we need to think about how we can improve it.They do! However, is that a sign of INSTITUTIONAL racism or INDIVIDUAL racism?
LOL you're hysterical!When you simply change the race or sex of your statement and it sounds terribly racist, then the original statement itself was racist.
It doesn't matter if your original statement was about white men, Asian men, Arab women, etc. When you advocate for removing the rights of people based solely on their skin color --
YOU ARE A RACIST.
You don't combat racism with more racism.
I curious why you are bending over backwards to try and show institutional/structural racism doesn’t exist?
As a white guy it’s highly likely you (or I) won’t even recognize racism unless it’s blatant.
https://equity.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Salvatore-Shelton-2007.pdf
The above is average time it took subjects of different races to perform a cognitive test after being exposed to blatant prejudice or ambiguous prejudice in a corporate type setting.
Black subjects were less impacted by blatant prejudice indicating coping mechanisms. However ambiguous prejudice caused a significant mental load.
For white subjects, witnessing blatant prejudice caused the large cognitive load but for the ambiguous prejudice the researchers used to simulate institutional racism the white candidates basically didn’t notice.
I would say there is very little doubt that institutional racism is still a major issue in America. Look no further than Trump pardoning Shapiro, excusing him for his very blatant implementation of institutionalized racism. Consider reactions from Trump when a shooter is non-white compared to white. Look at America's initial response to AIDS back in the 80s and 90s. As others have stated, look at drug use vs drug convictions. Look at juvenile crime statistics. Look at implementation of the death penalty. Institutional racism is still pervasive in American society. It might not be as blatant as it was 50 years ago, but we still have a lot of improvements we can make. This isn't to say that every white male is to blame. This is simply saying that a problem exists and we need to think about how we can improve it.
I understand most of that I think, but there is one part that I think is causing my confusion. The core issue is not unique to race as it would seem to me. I think you are saying that you had feelings that you may or may not fully understand, but that you could not express accurately. That, or you could not translate them to words that others would understand. To me that is not something unique to race and or privilege. I think that is something that is part of the human condition, which is that your thoughts are far easier to emotionally understand than they are to express to another person as the context of your feelings are lost.
In fact, this very discussion is an example of that. I believe that your idea is probably far more clear to you than what I am understanding. Part of that might be in how you are explaining yourself, but the likely larger part is my ability to understand what you are saying.
Should I mention that I myself am super white? Partially because the sun hates me so I avoid it but also because ya know, genetics. My family has even named a specific shade of white for my uncle. If something is that white, it's ridiculously white (he's not a racist).Just because you have a white friend doesn't mean you aren't racist against white people.
You don't actually understand the concept of privilege, then.
It doesn't mean you're automatically guilty or excluded from the discussion. It means you come to the table with advantages other groups don't have, and which you've likely taken for granted. And frequently, refusing to acknowledge that privilege can lead to making bad assumptions ("everybody has it as good as I do") that skew your decisions.
A classic example: traffic stops. White people don't get pulled over because they're driving a car that's "too nice," or because they don't look like they belong in the neighborhood. Their greatest fear is usually a speeding ticket; black people have to worry about whether or not they'll even survive the stop (just ask Philando Castile). Pretending that this discrepancy in treatment doesn't exist is effectively endorsing discriminatory police practices.
The underlying individual psychological mechanisms of race dynamics are not unique to race or privilege. Institutionally/culturally/structurally the US acts in ways which heavily produce and reinforce those dynamics. For that reason, it is very important to talk about race explicitly. The product of our society is that people of color are systematically disadvantaged and people who are not making themselves active participants in discrimination nonetheless are serving to keep the systematic disadvantage going by electing not to confront it. Not in a political or activism way. But in a human, everyday way. The capacity to elect not to confront their racial conflicts is privilege that people of color do not share. People are not bad for having privilege and they are not bad for taking advantage of it. But they could be better if they recognize it more and choose to make themselves uncomfortable by confronting their racial biases and attitudes and bringing it to the surface in everyday life.
Well, there's a study on just about everything isn't there? You seriously don't need stats or study results to see what happens to minorities and the poor in America. America should be better than that instead of allowing and accepting Hate/ignorance run amuck.
You have to be very specifically blind and deaf to not acknowledge the imbalance... AND of course ignorantly white
I hate that this post of yours represents too many fu*king people who think like you (just to be ugly). As I stated before, you have to lie to yourself to not see the privilege. What I didn't say before is that you must also be petty and small to not see it as well as insecure about possibly having to live in a country where white privilege no longer exists. Where instead privilege is shared by ALL.
The very fact that you asked for stats says everything about you. None of it kind or respectable.
A classic example: traffic stops. White people don't get pulled over because they're driving a car that's "too nice," or because they don't look like they belong in the neighborhood. Their greatest fear is usually a speeding ticket; black people have to worry about whether or not they'll even survive the stop (just ask Philando Castile). Pretending that this discrepancy in treatment doesn't exist is effectively endorsing discriminatory police practices.
I curious why you are bending over backwards to try and show institutional/structural racism doesn’t exist?
So two different guys, one white, and one black. Partners in the same law firm, same salary, same quality of life.
We can automatically assume that the white guy had an easier time than the black guy, correct?