You have now confessed to being a white male over fifty so by progressive standards you are a part of the problem.
This is your typical hallucinatory strawman of “progressive standards,” in which, among many other defects, the word “progressive” is ill-defined. It is also your strawman of what actual progressives want — which is not the oppression of whites, an idea that is nothing more than your bizarre and self-pitying delusion.
As a representative of your collective…
I don’t belong to a collective, Nick, and represent no one except myself. Unlike you and the other racists who infest this board, I don’t believe in group labels, especially about race, which has no meaningful biological existence. I’m an individual, a free thinker and a skeptic, and I judge others as
individuals and not as members of “collectives.” In this, ironically enough, I have something in common with Ayn Rand, may God forbid.
You are guilty …
I’m not guilty of anything, Nick.
… of white privilege and you should be looked upon as such.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, I
have benefited by unearned privileges because I am white and male. That doesn’t make me
guilty of anything, however, because I
oppose unearned white male privileges, including for myself — unlike you, who favors them. I believe in
fairly earned privileges. So you are the guilty one, and not me.
Your collective has been exposed so there is no sense in denying it.
I don’t belong to a collective, Nick. See above.
Does black privilege exist?
Black privilege, Nick? Really?
Well, let’s exam black privilege.
Blacks had privilege of being kidnapped from Africa and being enslaved in North America for centuries.
They had the privilege of having their families members sold off by slaveholders such that the family members never saw one another again.
They had the privilege of being auctioned off in auction houses like cattle.
They had the privilege of being whipped by their overseers until their flesh hung on them in tatters.
They had the privilege of not being allowed to learn to read and write.
They had the privilege, after the Civil War, of watching as Reconstruction — which had greatly improved the lot of many of them — was prematurely ended in a dirty deal whereby Rutherford (Rutherfraud) B. Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction in return for being allowed to steal the presidency in the fraudulent election of 1876 (which nearly precipitated a second Civil War).
After that, they had the privilege of being introduced to the tender mercies of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow, which consigned them to another century of second-class citizenship in freedom’s land and bravery’s home.
They had the privilege of being lynched by white mobs, including the lynching of black servicemen who were veterans of World War I and were killed by the filthy white stump jumpers whose freedoms they had fought to defend.
They had the privilege, for another century, of being prevented by illicit means from voting or holding office or even serving on juries; they had the privilege, north and south, of being forced into substandard housing, substandard education and substandard jobs.
Even after the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, they have to this day maintained the privilege of substandard housing, education and jobs, a regimen enforced by subtler means; and in the current era under the reign of President Cheeto Benito, a monster whom you support, they have the privilege of being gunned down in the street by white cops for crimes like driving while black, and they have the privilege of watching this monster in the White House babble about what mighty fine people racists and neo-Nazis are. They also continue to have the privilege of being subjected to voter suppression laws and backdoor efforts to repeal or at least eviscerate the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.
If a person is given a job or a student is accepted in college only because they are black, is this black privilege?
Where did you get the idea that blacks are given jobs or accepted to colleges ONLY because they are black, Nick? Did you get that idea from Fox News and from your hero, the sexual predator Bill O’Reilly?
How about the decades after decades after decades that white people were given jobs and accepted into college ONLY because they were white (not black) — which is what
actually happened and as a matter of fact continues to happen. Does that fact trouble your paltry conscience or even ruffle your brow a bit, Nick?
But, hey — you’re a
Cosmic Man! Ooooh!
Right, Nick?