Political Theory

Re: White Privilege

Ark de Grande — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:33:05 GMT

Look up or ask Ryan Faulk about white privilege. He pretty much destroys the theory.

Re: White Privilege

acft — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:29:39 GMT

MadMiser wrote:

"If people of any other colour had embraced liberty, restrained the state and had an industrial revolution of their own, then they'd be free to privilege their own kind too. 'White privilege' is like 'exploitation‘: examining the factory worker and declaring him exploited by the owner, without any cognisance of the fact that the factory would not exist if not for the efforts of the owner."

You forgot the "white power!"

Re: White Privilege

MadMiser — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:59:28 GMT

If people of any other colour had embraced liberty, restrained the state and had an industrial revolution of their own, then they'd be free to privilege their own kind too. 'White privilege' is like 'exploitation‘: examining the factory worker and declaring him exploited by the owner, without any cognisance of the fact that the factory would not exist if not for the efforts of the owner.

Re: White Privilege

Buzz Killington — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:48:24 GMT

I don't believe that it's nearly as big a problem as some people portray it to be.

Re: White Privilege

Kmelfina — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:39:08 GMT

If you would like to look up on "White Privelege", just go do a search on Tim Wise.

I don't necessarily believe in it despite the monologues my university does, since there doesn't seem to be a way to measure feelings of approval to individuals just for their 'white' skin color. Besides we have Affirmative Action, racial quotas for businesses to disprove acts of discrimination etc

Re: White Privilege

acft — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:37:16 GMT

Well, one method of proving it would be to look at instances of 'colored disprivilages'. If someone colored or black was prevented from doing something someone white was allowed to do, the white person was privilaged in this instance. There are many instances of this throughout American history as well as world history with examples being black codes, segregation, slavery, property laws, marriage laws, etc. In the case of world history look at British occupied India and other instances of Colonialism.

White Privilege

Dustin Jussila — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:27:22 GMT

I overcame this rising video on youtube and it got me thinking of what is considered "white privilege", mainly on how to define it and how to quantify and measure it scientifically to see if it exists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watjO62NrVg

Anyone have any comments on the theory of "white privilege" and whether there is any truth to it? If so, how can you prove it?

Thanks