Let me tell you about ´White Privilege´
Jewish World Review,
by
Greg Crosby
Original Article
Posted By: Tianne,
4/12/2019 8:22:45 PM
There´s something wrong with me. I´m an adult white man living in the United States of America in 2019 and I feel absolutely no white privilege at all. None. I worked hard all my life at my chosen profession. I didn´t come from a family of money. I had many menial jobs as a teen and young man until I was able to work my way into the career I wanted to have. I hated social climbing and office politics so I didn´t engage in it. Whatever I achieved I got through hard work, talent, and perseverance. No one ever gave me anything that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mean Gene 4/12/2019 8:32:44 PM (No. 32110)
But, but, but.....
White privilege includes being on time, not a construct held by POC.
It also includes command of basic English, spelling and grammar, also not things held high by POC.
Wait, I´m making the point that people of color slit their own throats while trying to blame "whitey," for their own failure.
OOPS.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 4/12/2019 8:37:54 PM (No. 32119)
Me, too.
The only possible advantage I ever got in life (other than good brain from my parents and God) is that my parents could afford to pay for my college tuition and books, and for the first year, my dorm rent. After that, I worked to pay apartment rent, and other than the first quarter, when I got the ´meal ticket´ for the university cafeteria, I paid all my food bills, too. I bought an old car, paid the gas, and fixed it myself.
I paid 100% for my master´s degree, not a penny from my parents.
Just like the author, I earned everything I got. I never had a ´mentor´ at work, other than my supervisor, some of who were great, some were jerks. Never played politics at work.
Huge numbers of us out here. And I am entirely unimpressed with some puke yelling about ´white privilege´. I think it is another leftist fantasy more than anything real.
I DO see a lot of black privilege and female privilege, though. Well over half of all our first level managers at my engineering group were females by the time I retired. About 15% of the engineers were females. Several of the female supervisors were competent, the rest, not so much.
Stuff your ´white privilege´, it´s BS.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/12/2019 8:41:31 PM (No. 32114)
#MeToo. I jettisoned the idea of living by the script early on and blazed a new and more satisfying trail. It wasn´t always smooth but it was always fun and rewarding.
If people think you´re crazy they don´t mess with you.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FunOne 4/12/2019 8:44:26 PM (No. 32116)
I am a74 year old white guy. I can relate to this article. I also note that all white men in my age group were in work environments wherein there was government mandated discrimination against them via affirmative action, quotas, and set asides for those of different pigment or plumbing. Yep--that kind of "white privilege".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tsquare 4/12/2019 8:59:20 PM (No. 32111)
White “privilege” ha. It is white responsibilties
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
CactusStar 4/12/2019 9:09:26 PM (No. 32126)
I grew up poor, was an infantryman in Vietnam at 19, and worked hard to have a self-sufficient and meaningful life ever since. The SJW´s can stick it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Wendybird 4/12/2019 9:45:35 PM (No. 32120)
People should be seen and treated as people, rather than skin color or one of the dozens of sexes. That should recognize the god-given near infinite variation in ability, aptitude, intelligence, and the rest of which makes us people.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ilovedogs 4/12/2019 9:55:01 PM (No. 32125)
well put I´m a white female and ditto
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Tennman 4/12/2019 10:48:12 PM (No. 32113)
You mean that privilege of waking up every day and making a living? Raising kids to be productive adults? Paying taxes?
That privilege?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thewarden 4/12/2019 11:36:38 PM (No. 32117)
My dad, born in 1932, put himself through Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh in the early 50s by working for his uncle as a sign painter and also delivering flowers, among other random jobs. He got a BS in Chemical Engineering—told me that he had a hard time with math but hired tutors to help him learn. He then did a stint in the USN per the draft. My Dad is my HERO. His (White) family lost their quarry business and homes and everything during the depression, they all moved into a great aunt’s house, his mom went to work (along with his handicapped Dad) and they survived. It wasn’t easy. He worked his tail off to succeed and we had a nice childhood. I hate people who play race games. Go to Hades. Your life is what you make it. Get on your knees and be grateful you live in the United States of America—the greatest nation ever! Grrr... I miss you, Dad.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/12/2019 11:48:55 PM (No. 32118)
Seems like a lot of the ´Privilege´ stories involve a father and mother and personal responsibility. Some dysfunctional government agency is a poor substitute for any of those.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/13/2019 12:30:02 AM (No. 32124)
Ditto #4.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
web 4/13/2019 1:22:33 AM (No. 32115)
"...hard work, talent, and perseverance..." We are not really talking about White privileges, but White values.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Tianne 4/13/2019 2:31:38 AM (No. 32112)
Denigrating whites and trying to diminish their contributions by calling their efforts and earned accomplishments the results of "white privilege", are only exposing the boorishness, ingratitude, and utter envy of those on the Left.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2019 4:01:24 AM (No. 32122)
Oh, yeah, a critical point. When my parents paid my tuition and books, late 60s/early 70s. Tuition was $125/quarter and engineering technical books cost around $60 per quarter, so for a full year, they paid out $357+180 = $555. Dorms added $140/qtr, meal ticket the first quarter, $225, $625 for the year, since I covered the 2nd and 3rd qtr food myself. Net for my first year college from my parents was just under $1200. I got absolutely NO added money from them, worked for all other money.
College costs are totally insane now.
I know, because we have been looking, since we are funding all our grand nieces´ and nephew´s college costs, as long as they get good grades and take REAL degrees, or trade school.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/13/2019 4:03:10 AM (No. 32121)
Every time these black and white demonrat commie politicians come out with their white privilege BS, I have to laugh. Look at them. Ask yourself about all their privileges enriching themselves on the backs of taxpayers. More freebees...more freebees...more freebees. That´s all they´ve got for a voter.
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Wonderful article explaining the myth of white privilege. How blessed we all have been by ´whites´ who have toiled with generous intent for all of their lives without expecting, or receiving, praise, recognition, or special consideration.