The myth of "white privilege"

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Ya can't beat this place for free entertainment.

Jussie Smollett's preferential treatment comes just one day after his former attorney, Mark Geragos was identified as a co-conspirator in a federal extortion case involving Michael Avenatti.

Furious at the decision, Chicago's mayor calls the Smollett dismissal a "Whitewash of justice".

Yes sir we should disregard four hundreds years of slavery and a hundred years of jim crow laws an the current racist living in the white house because this black gay man have the connections to be treated like a straight white man for once.

Sure there is no white privilege like the privilege of sending your 12 years old son out to play in a park and not fearing that some cop will blow him away even if he happen to be playing with a toy gun.

Right...

I forgot that no other civilization in history has ever had slavery besides America. And there certainly haven't been any black slave owners ever.

You are completely right. Bob, the janitor at McDonalds, who lives in his van, has more privilege than Jussie Smollett. Because Bob is white.

You got me.

Jordan Peterson speaking on the myth of "White Privilege"

You are funny as money in the bank, nice cloths and car is not going to decrease the greater likelihood of a nerve cop blowing you away if you have a black skin instead of the nice white skin of Bob the janitor.

Just ask the surviving family of the black security guard that was blown away by error by a nerve cop recently or the black citizen that ended up with guns pointed at him for the crime of unloading his belongings from U-haul truck into his newly purchase home in the middle of the day.

You right the very fact that a black and a gay black at that could be treated like a white man mean that there is no longer white privilege.

Strange as I can still remember helping a black co-worker of mine up after two cops had tackle him while he was running from one of our building to another to get a package to the airport as soon as possible.

Now if good old white Bob in your example had been doing the running I am sure he would had been tackle also<not>

Jordan Peterson . . . ah-hahahahahahahahahahahaha . . .

This guy cracks me up.

Tell me you watched the whole 2 hr 31 minute presentation. Go ahead; I'm gullible.

He isn't smart enough to understand what Peterson is talking about anyway.

Someone sensible;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhy-NvXt0-U

I didn't watch any of it, you dirty rat. Peterson is notorious for attacking feminism and crying crocodile tears for poor, abused, white males. He is notorious for attacking what he had once called minority privilege. Hell, he even denies that the climate is changing, while Canada (his native land, where he now lives and works) suffers constantly from the effects of climactic warming.

So no, I haven't wasted my time on that clown--I don't listen to Lush Lamebrain or Alex Jones, either. With folks like those, once is enough. But I do enjoy playing with our newest FSB troll from Putin's St. Petersburg troll farm here, he's good for a laugh.

I am not one to balk at a good insult, but me thinks you take it a tad to far...

Relax, breathe!

Could we in this case say - "financial privilege" or "celebrity privilege"? Seems to me he got off because of his celebrity or money. Wonder if a similar thing will happen to all these money privilege college scams?

It is obvious that in certain circumstances being white is a privilege - whether a white individual is racist or not. You cannot argue the fact that being a young black male in a situation involving police is much more dangerous.

However, in this situation as well as many others - money and fame outweighs someone's race.

Its always about wealth, its always about the divide between rich and poor.

Look at European history, go back far enough and what you find is 'serfdom' which is basically white slavery. The rich people actually think they are superior human beings to the poor people..... This is the birth place of racism, and where you have the slavery of black people, its the same **** over again, the rich and powerful exploiting the poor and wanting to keep them down.... being black is just a convenience in that process.

Its always about wealth.

I don't know to what insult you refer, but just so as not to disappoint you, allow me to say that your comments about serfs in Europe are hilariously inept. Serfs had rights in property, they had the right to plead in the manor court, and to call witnesses. They had the right to earn money on their own, and if they saved enough to buy land, they, and their dependents, became free men and women. Commonly, a man would work his strip fields with the help of his wife, any healthy sons and sons-in-law. In the winter, and in the middle of summer, they could hire out, and could earn at least one silver penny per day, while a skilled laborer would earn more. The serf kept one third of the production of however many strip fields were allocated to him, and hard workers who were productive were usually allocated additional strip fields. Any surplus could be sold.

The Great Mortality, as it was known in Englsnd--what we call the Black Death--created a sellers' market in labor. Laws were passed to prevent serfs from leaving the manors, but they proved unenforceable. From the 14th century onward, serfs in England, in Germany and in many parts of the Holy Roman Empire were frequently able to buy land, and become free men.

You seem to have a habit of shooting your mouth off when you clearly don't know what the hell you're talking about. I recommend the works of Frances and Joseph Gies, certainly specialist historians, but with a rare talent of writing so the their subject could easily be understood by the non-specialist. Their works would provide you with an education beyond the silly stereotypes you obvious rely on currently:

Collaborations
(1969) Life in a Medieval City, ISBN 978-0-06-090880-5
(1972) Merchants and Moneymen: The Commercial Revolution, 1000-1500 ISBN 978-0-690-53177-0
(1974) Life in a Medieval Castle Crowell, ISBN 978-0-690-00561-5
(1979) Life in a Medieval Castle ISBN 978-0-062-01650-8
(1983) Leonard Of Pisa And The New Mathematics Of The Middle Ages ISBN 978-0-317-57849-2
(1987) Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages ISBN 0-06-015791-7
(1990) Life in a Medieval Village
(1994) Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel : Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-016590-1
(1999) A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England New York: HarperCollins
(2005) Daily Life in Medieval Times, UK: Grange Books, 2005 ISBN 1-84013-811-4 (Combining Medieval City, Medieval Castle, Medieval Village)

Frances Gies
(1978) Women in the Middle Ages HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-690-01724-3
(1981) Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-690-01942-1
(1984) The Knight in History HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-091413-4[2]

This bibliography is taken from the Wikipedia article on Frances and Jospeh Gies.

For those who shoot their mouth off without knowing what they are talking about;
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-of-basically-technically-actually-and-literally-When-to-use-them

What about maroon privilege?

Leaving aside that the expertise displayed at Quora is no better than one finds here, I did not use "basically," "technically," "actually," or "literally" in that post. I stopped posting at Quora a long time ago because I got tired of weenies pretending to know those things about which they were ignorant.

You were shooting your mouth off about serfdom not being exactly the same as slavery. It is not exactly the same, it is the same on a more basic level and happens to be why i used the word basically.

But your so eager to find an excuse to belittle me (a mere human daring to speak among self inflated intellectual giants) you chose to overlook that.

Surprisingly some dictionaries define serf as slave;
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/serf

Not that this is what i am here to debate, just more evidence to add to why your post was useless.