Would you give some examples of this for perusal?
Just about everyone uses sheets on his bed. As a white person, you recognize that sheet is merely the attire traditionally worn by your family(and maybe yourself) when they were out terrorizing minorities. A minority recognizes the sheet with which he is forced to cover his bed as the clothing of those who have terrorized him and his family for years. Can you imagine having to sleep on/under the clothing of those who hate you?
What do you think of when you see a church steeple? The crucifixion of Jesus? A minority sees the cross the Klan burned in his yard last night.
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Half of transgender people suffer from depression and nearly 41% have or will attempt suicide. Not a good cohort for small arms training. The marines won’t even allow anyone who has ever been diagnosed or treated for ADHD/ADD to enlist.
Move past the feelings.
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Sure. As a white person, no one is surprised when I am ‘well spoken.’ No one is surprised that I am educated. No one is surprised that I am a physician. Further, it is universally assumed that I got my job because of my qualifications.
(Studies have found that when the same résumé is sent out, with the only difference being that the attached name sounds white vs black, the ‘white’ résumé gets twice as many positive responses as the black one.)
I feel no need to be alarmed when I’m stopped by the police–it never even crosses my mind that I might get shot because of a misunderstanding. Relatedly, I’ve never felt a need to have ‘the talk’ with my son about how to behave if he’s stopped by the police. I don’t ever get stopped and frisked. The police don’t eye me with suspicion when I’m out and about.
Salespeople do not follow me around stores, keeping an eye on me to make sure I don’t shoplift. Taxis stop for me when I hail them.
I’m never expected to be a de facto ‘spokesman’ for my race. Further, if a white person does something truly deplorable (eg, Timothy McVeigh), I don’t have to worry that his actions will reflect negatively on me, or that they will be attributed to his whiteness–in fact, the mere suggestion of such an idea would strike me as ludicrous, and would be dismissed out-of-hand by me and most everyone I know. Similarly, I am never expected to issue a general apology or distance myself when a white person does something deplorable. And no one ever complains, ‘Why don’t moderate white people speak up and denounce what those other white people did?’
When I view institutions of cultural transmission–TV, movies, etc–I see white people everywhere, and this does not strike me as odd. (In truth, it happens so regularly that their whiteness doesn’t even register; in fact, I only notice the absence of whiteness in roles for which I am accustomed to seeing whites cast; eg, people of power and influence.) In school, my history books were about virtually nothing but white people, and this too did not strike me as odd. Likewise, when my kids were in school, it never, ever occurred to me to worry that they wouldn’t see people who looked like them in their textbooks.
I’ve never been denied the opportunity to live where I wanted to live. I’ve never had to deal with neighbors who did not welcome ‘my kind’ in their neighborhood. To my recollection, no one has ever crossed the street at night when they saw me walking their way. No one locks their car doors if I walk by while they’re stopped at a traffic light.
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Okay, Nick:
Was this “tongue-in-cheek”…or meant to be serious? (And I am serious about the question.)
And one mad man driving into a crowd isn’t just a hate crime? Sorry to break it to you, but most people are not racists.
Most people do not put people down because of race. It’s a fringe group. Making it sound like people are racists by default until you prove otherwise is part of the problem and far from the solution. That madman who because of BLM killed 5 police is no better that the racist nut who drove his car into a crowd. They were both motivated by racial hate. There is no excuse for either.
Well bully for you. I have been unjustly harassed by the police, had a gun pointed at me, detained for no reason and I am not black.
Hence I worry when a police car is behind me wondering if I am going to be harassed for the hell of it.
I have detailed these encounters in other threads. I don’t think the police are disproportionately racist vs. the community at large. They pick on the weak.
Not all of them, and I haven’t always been mistreated by police, but I know what handcuffs put on real tight feels like, I know what it’s like to sit in the back of a police car scared out of my mind wondering what I did wrong. I have experienced that.
Maybe you have white privilege, but I don’t.
Really?
Edit: It’s meant to be taken however the reader reads it.
Got it!
Just checking before I said it was bullshit…
You are probably a nice looking person. Possibly good looking too, and benefit from the halo effect.
I on the other hand, get full body searched and run for warrants any time I interact with police. I look “bad” to them. Not necessarily ugly, just “bad”.
I guess that the difference or point of disagreement that I have is that I see what you described as normal, not privileged. That someone does not experience what you described doesn’t make anybody else privileged- it makes them mistreated.
I just don’t see it as zero sum. My being treated good (or normally) is not a detraction from them, and a detraction from them is not my benefit.
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I am not against the ban for people in transition. It’s a distraction from duty we cannot afford.
If people serve prior to transition or post transition I don’t have a problem with their serving.
If you however have any doubt about your transition in contrast with the service you enlisted for you should stay out.
I don’t believe the military and it’s benifits should be used as a means to an end. If you are not sure about your dedication to the service you signed up for.
You have to love the title. “Why Transgender People Experience More Mental Health Issues.” Next up: Why Serial Killers Are More Likely To Have Killed Someone Than Are People Who Have Not Killed Anyone
Who are you arguing with here?
I ask again–with whom are you arguing? Who has said these things you’re taking issue with?
You are also (per you) not white, so I’m not sure what your point is (unless you are intentionally affirming my position).
That doesn’t seem to gibe with what you said in the previous sentences, but OK.
Like I said…
Sorry to hear that. Think how much worse it would be for you if you were black.
I guess ‘white non-mistreatment’ wasn’t as catchy as ‘white privilege’? (Not meant as snarky as it sounds.) Your point–that everyone should be treated with a presumption of respect and dignity; that that should be the default, ‘normal’ mode of interaction–is perfectly valid. But the difference between what I’m saying and what you’re saying seems (to me at least) to be one of semantics.
The point is, you have it better in at least some respects than do most black folk because of the color of your skin.
Agreed on the treatment part, but the fundamental issue, at least for me, is that my being treated normally is not at their expense or to their detriment, nor is their being treated badly in any way to my benefit.
If I’m in the check out line at the grocery store and the cashier is somehow nice to me, that doesn’t mean that a black person behind me must now be mistreated. There isn’t a reserve of treatment exclusive to white people.
There is no privilege.
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I’m not suggesting black people are treated worse because white people are treated better. There’s no causal connection between the two.
No it doesn’t. But if you are consistently treated better than the black people behind you, that is a fact-of-the-world that demands an explanation. And the explanation is ‘privilege.’
No, its bigotry. And I’m not responsible for other peoples actions.
Would it be more fair if we were all treated badly? Thats what calling it privilege implies to me. Privileges can be taken away, and in some cases should be.
Human dignity is not a privilege. That’s what we’re really talking about here.
Do I not deserve mine because someone else was stripped of theirs?
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You must not say “badly.” Your question should be rewritten as follows: “Would it be better if we were all treated fairly?”
A belief in the goodness of equality of misery is essential to the imposition of socialism/communism/neo-conservatism/progressivism.
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Like Obamacare. It isn’t very good for anybody!
#Communist Training wheels.
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Ministry of Truth right here. Lmao
I fully believe it used to be a thing. It probably still is for the most part. But it’s important to note that while you support the position the military is/was taking, they’re moving away from what you liked about it and towards what you dislike about unis.
My remark was to how puff thought the military is pushing unity and what brings us together, when in reality Trump has recently pushed the opposite. To me, trans people constitute such a small % of the population that these changes are negligible. This only furthered my frustration with Trump that he would focus (and tweet/create headlines) on something that’s a statistical “doesn’t fucking matter” just to please his base and stir the pot. Just a stupid move all around.