The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(08-29-2021, 12:29 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-28-2021, 07:57 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(08-28-2021, 05:58 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-28-2021, 11:55 AM)David Horn Wrote: Well, she's a Silent, and still thinks like one whether she chooses to or not.  Her white privilege is the result of 8 decades if life -- the formative 2 in the pre-Civil Rights era.  All in all, she' pretty progressive on race, but the wiring still shows from time to time.

White privilege is only part of the problem. Today, we have black privilege and brown privilege causing problems too.

The only non-white privilege that I could imagine is "Asian-American" privilege in the sense that most white people see peoples, at the least of east-central Asian origin (Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese) as for all practical purposes "white". When I attended college in California in the 1970's, I could not distinguish such people from white people by skin color alone. Then comes antipathy related to garbage claiming that COVID-19 is biological warfare by China. 

OK. Let's look at someone who has much privilege who is black:

    

Yes, she is privileged because she has honed her musical talent so that she can lease it profitably. She was fortunate to belong to a part of the black bourgeoisie that puts a high value on talent and formal education. Someone white with similar talent and curriculum vitae (let us say Lady Gaga) would also be similarly privileged and would not attribute her success to being white. With her success comes access to five-star hotels and plush accommodations while traveling. I have no idea how she spends her huge earnings and really don't care -- but I can assure you that she lives far better than a welfare recipient, to put it mildly. She has fully earned her privilege, something that she uses to facilitate her achievements.

Privilege is more costly than outright pay. Big business and the government do not offer it unless it is likely to do them perceptible, marketable good.

Nobody gets any special breaks for being black, and not even from the black bourgeoisie. It's open to white spouses who have biracial children who have no cause to identify as white.  

Had she not been murdered, Selena Quintanilla (a Mexican-American) might have had us thinking much the same about her.  

Imagine??? You must not get around much these days. Oh, that's right, you're a rural blue hick living  in Podunk. That explains your disconnect and reliance on imagination to see so to speak. Me, I'm smack dab in the middle of millions of people. I can tell you this, black and brown privilege exists today. You know what white privilege is right. Biden's kid is a prime example of white privilege. How much shit has Biden's kid been able to get away with because of his status? That's white privilege. The Clinton's are another prime example of white privilege too. Look at all the shit the two of them have been able to get away with over the years. I have had some run ins with black and brown privilege over the years. In case you are wondering, white privilege is a sense of entitlement associated with ones status that's  prevalent among some white people. You're basically born with privilege, raised with privilege and go on to live the rest of their lives with privilege.  Democrats are intellectually  lazy and broad brush and associate it with the entire race which is wrong.  The term itself only applies to Pelosi and the upper echelon (the white ruling class) that she now represents for the most part. BTW, the majority of them are Liberal these days. I predict the group is going to find itself being stuck with 30 trillion in debt which should wipe them out and render them useless. Like I said, it won't take the American states long to ratify the American Constitution that exists. So, do you think the American revolutionaries who participated in the Revolutionary War were fascists too?

I used to live in Greater Dallas. I learned to size people up by certain cues such as grammar (which corresponds with formal learning, which mattered much more in the 1970's than now) and the topics of conversation. With people not adept in English because they are not native speakers of English, the topics of conversation said more than anything else. There are things that one does not un-learn. 

White privilege is real because plenty of stupid, lazy white people (retail clerks that I knew on the job tended to be stupid and lazy) acted as if every black person was "lesser" than they. Lazy, stupid white people are typically racists. 

But let's look at an account I have seen. One unobjectionable black youth accounted being arrested as an assumed thief. When he pulled out his wallet it had pictures of white people. He has a German surname, and that matches his ID. But -- the cops put that together with him being black and they figured that he had stolen the wallet. He had a simple explanation: his father is white and his mother is black. The white people whose pictures are in his wallet are his paternal-side relatives. He has had to have his father rescue him from that situation several times. 

White liberals have allies who do not look much like them but have similar levels of education and economic success. If you want to say that being a successful attorney, physician, accountant, engineer, or the like is privilege, then that has nothing to do with ethnicity. That is economic or vocational privilege; a society offers that if it is to get people to do the difficult work of attaining specialized ability.

Intellectual laziness practically ensures  failure to get or maintain vocational privilege. How Trump got away with his intellectual laziness astonishes me. Then again, he has found how to finagle.