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White Privilege is arrogantly believing that reverse racism actually exists.
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White Privilege is being able to stay ignorant to the fact that racial slurs are part of a systematic dehumanization of entire groups of people who are and have historically been subjugated and hated just for being alive.Comment
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White privilege is having your words and actions attributed to you as an individual, rather than have them reflect members of your race.Comment
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White Privilege is being pulled over or taken aside and knowing that you are not being singled out because of your race/colour.Comment
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White Privilege is not having to acknowledge the fact that we live in a system that treat people of colour unfairly politically, socially and economically and choosing, instead, to believe that people of colour are inherently less capable.Comment
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White Privilege is being able to ignore the consequences of raceComment
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I did say something very similar to Liz (ohliz) back in the day.Originally posted by blugiant View PostComment
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Black ignorance is arrogantly believing that there is such a thing as reverse racism.Originally posted by blugiant View Post
Quote the Wolf "Reverse racism does not exist...there is no such thing, there is only racism."
Example: Affirmative action is racism. Choosing a person for employment because of the color of their skin, over a more qualified person of a different race, is racist.
And this study enforces what I've been saying while sharing dialogue. Blacks and whites are too far apart in what they see as facts according to race. Until we understand and respect each other's positions, we will not live in harmony...sad, but true fact.
By PBSpot Admin January 3, 2014 240 Comments Read More →
Study Finds White Americans Believe They Experience More Racism Than African Americans
There’s a saying that “the new racism is to deny that racism exists.” If that is the case, it may explain a study conducted by researchers from Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. Their findings claim that self-described white Americans believe they have “replaced blacks” as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America.
The authors say that their study highlights how the expectations of a “post-racial” society, predicted or imagined in the wake of Barack Obama’s presidency, has far from been achieved.
The study finds that while both Caucasian and African Americans agree that anti-black racism has decreased over the last 60 years, whites believe that anti-white racism has increased. Moreover, the study finds that the majority of Caucasians believe that anti-white racism is a “bigger problem” than what African Americans face.Tufts Associate Professor of Psychology Samuel Sommers, PhD is the co-author of the article “Whites See Racism as a Zero-sum Game that They Are Now Losing,” from the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. He comments that “It’s a pretty surprising finding when you think of the wide range of disparities that still exist in society, most of which show black Americans with worse outcomes than whites in areas such as income, home ownership, health and employment.”
The study was conducted by Sommers and co-author Michael I. Norton of Harvard asking a roughly equal national sample of 209 Caucasians and 208 African Americans to indicate, on a scale of 1 to 10, the extent to which they felt blacks and whites were the targets of discrimination in decades spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s. The scale’s ranking of 1 indicated “not at all” while 10 indicates “very much.”
Both groups reported roughly the same things for the 1950s, with neither believing Caucasians experienced much racism at all during that turbulent decade. Both similarly agreed that at the same time, there was substantial racism against African Americans. Both groups also agreed that racism against African Americans has steadily decreased over time. But here’s where the study gets interesting. Caucasians surveyed believe that the discrimination faced by their African American neighbors has decreased much more rapidly than the African American respondents. Furthermore, they believe that while African Americans now have it better, they – the Caucasians surveyed – have taken their place as the primary targets of discrimination.
“These data are the first to demonstrate that not only do whites think more progress has been made toward equality than do blacks, but whites also now believe that this progress is linked to a new inequality – at their expense,” Norton and Sommers explain.
An astounding 11% of Caucasian respondents assigned the maximum rating of 10 to the seriousness of anti-white discrimination. Compare that with only 2% who reported the same of anti-black racism. Caucasians, the study found, often believe that racial equality is “a zero sum game,” where one group gains at the expense of others.
What are your thoughts?
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Originally posted by lonewolf View Post
joke argument
cah itt seyinn dat oyinbo ar choosinn less qualified blakks ann dat iss racism. still mii see yuh miss dat joke dat y yuh chatt bout respectinn racist argumentsComment
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LOL That's simply putting it politely that she disagreed. Stop beating around the bush.Originally posted by Blackstar* View Post
It's a nonsensical arguement. Liz, or people like Liz are thinking individually, you on the other hand and Blu are thinking with mob victim mentality. You were pointing a finger at Liz and blaming her for black people's problems because she is white. She has as much control of being born white as you had being born black.
Just because you want to pretend to be a victim does not mean Liz ot other white people should play your silly game and pretend to be culprits.
I suppose Bob Marley was really confused...white daddy and everything.
Perfect example of how differently black people and white people see the world around them...just an observation.
And, Blackstar and Blu, you may not like what I say or think, but I am explaining to you how many, if not the majority of white people think, just as you are explaining how black people think.
Difficult, but an honest discussion.Comment
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so BLu and Blackstar think in "mob mentality" while you can speak for how "many, if not the majority of white people " who according to you think as individuals?Originally posted by lonewolf View Post
this makes me laffWhen its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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Touche! Good point, you made me tink. But me point is this, and if I put myself in Liz's place, (because I can't speak for her) I would be thinking at that moment as an individual pertaining to subject discussed that I am not a responsible party for damage. I would not be thinking of terms of the entire white race. It's a foreign concept. Blacks easily think in group of being victims. Whites don't think in group of being perpetrators. Blacks seem to see them that way.so BLu and Blackstar think in "mob mentality" while you can speak for how "many, if not the majority of white people " who according to you think as individuals?
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