Male White Privelege: Does it Exist?

[Djgb13 2,338]

All I hear anyone talk about nowadays when you counter their absurd arguments is "oh well you have white make privelege you wouldn't understand". Like wtf does that have to do with you sounding like a retard? So my question is does it actually exist? Cause i haven't ever seen it

[penultimatestraw 473]

Yes it does. White males get treated with more respect, and have more opportunities than women or minorities.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

You ever notice how "white privilege" is not a phrase in backwardsass, low flying countries that no one visits?

[wiffleball 4,639]

Let me sum this up for you. If I as a white male get s***** service, I assume the waitress is a b**** and tip accordingly.

 

If you're black, you assume you're getting bad service because you're black and you started National boycott because of it.

[giraldi02 470]

You have to be blind and ignorant if you don't think it exists.

Now...to the extent that some make it out to be? No.

But I've never been stopped by a cop once in my life just walking down the street during the middle of the day. I cannot say the same for POC in my town.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

But I've never been stopped by a cop once in my life just walking down the street during the middle of the day. I cannot say the same for POC in my town.

So you take away "white privilege". Do the police stop everyone or no one?

[giraldi02 470]

So you take away "white privilege". Do the police stop everyone or no one?

 

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[NewbieJr 540]

So you take away "white privilege". Do the police stop everyone or no one?

You sound like a retard pretending it doesn't exist.

[lickin_starfish 1,480]

POC get stopped by cops more frequently because thay are more likely to be criminals, not because of privelege.

 

HTH

[TimmySmith 2,782]

You sound like a retard pretending it doesn't exist.

It may exist. Perhaps you can give a single example of it. I don't see police pulling people of color over as necessarily having anything to do with white people? My black neighbor used to get pulled over once a week, because he drove a car with bad tags and a tail light out while smoking dope.

[cyclone24 1,814]

You sound like a retard pretending it doesn't exist.

I personally don't have a problem saying it exists. I don't subscribe to the notion that this somehow gets everything handed to us and any achievements or hard work we've put in is only you rewarded because we are white people.

 

It's idiotic and it's excuse-making on their part for why they can't get anything done. It's easier to fall back on well they are successful because they are white and have white privilege as opposed to admitting they just an uneducated dirtbag

[iam90sbaby 2,125]

It may exist. Perhaps you can give a single example of it. I don't see police pulling people of color over as necessarily having anything to do with white people? My black neighbor used to get pulled over once a week, because he drove a car with bad tags and a tail light out while smoking dope.

 

You are so privileged to have him as a neighbor.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

You have to be blind and ignorant if you don't think it exists.

 

Now...to the extent that some make it out to be? No.

 

But I've never been stopped by a cop once in my life just walking down the street during the middle of the day. I cannot say the same for POC in my town.

 

"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating." Jesse Jackson

 

Are the cops stopping the women and old men POC or just the men aged 15-40? If a segment of the population that represents about 4-5% commits 50% of the violent crime and a good bit of the other crimes, as a cop, where do you start looking to make a difference in that neighborhood?

 

Is it white privilege Jesse Jackson was relieved about or that those guys don't pose a threat?

[avoiding injuries 1,220]

If I dressed, talked and acted like I just stepped out of the Bad and Boujee video, I would be treated differently than I normally am. It's about culture as much as it is race.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

 

You are so privileged to have him as a neighbor.

Was privileged. His dad moved back to Jamaica and he and his brother lived in the house until it got foreclosed upon. Now they are probably in jail. In all honesty, in the 12 years they were my neighbors, outside of selling dope out of the house and getting one pitbull after another, I never had a problem with them. There is also a thing called "white pragmatism and generosity".

 

UPDATE ON NEIGHBOR: Currently serving 18 months for assault. Good thing I have "white privilege" keeping me out of jail.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,631]

There is obviously privilige that exists in our society, and definetly rich white male privilige, It's identical to rich black male privilige , rich white woman privledge, rich gay privilige and on and on. I have received no privilige due to being white.

[NewbieJr 540]

I personally don't have a problem saying it exists. I don't subscribe to the notion that this somehow gets everything handed to us and any achievements or hard work we've put in is only you rewarded because we are white people.

 

It's idiotic and it's excuse-making on their part for why they can't get anything done. It's easier to fall back on well they are successful because they are white and have white privilege as opposed to admitting they just an uneducated dirtbag

Well, anyone who goes so far as to say white people are handed automatic riches and we don't have to work for it are equally retarded in the other direction.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

I was thinking about this yesterday as I saw a headline in the paper talking about the MA State Police having issues with women and minorities in their ranks not getting equal treatment. I was thinking that, in their case, minorities and women in the state police are treated differently because the white males need to have higher scores and more qualifications than the women and minorities. This backlash against special treatment of minorities may be causing the leveling of the playing field to actually take longer.

 

I do think that white male privilege does exist, but my guess is that it is not as prevalent as some think.

[cyclone24 1,814]

Well, anyone who goes so far as to say white people are handed automatic riches and we don't have to work for it are equally retarded in the other direction.

Right but that's essentially what they are saying.

I mean IMO they seem to use it when it's not a racist occasion but more of when they are not earning something they feel white people are just given.

[MDC 5,890]

Yes it exists but it is not as common as some people might claim and most of the time the real benefit of being hire is really socio economic rather than racial.

[TD Ryan2 314]

White male privilege does exist,

But it's made life miserable for many middle class white males who aren't really benefiting from it anymore and are now simply the last "classified/" group of human beings that it is socially acceptable to profile/label/and berate.

[iam90sbaby 2,125]

Who focking cares... honestly?

[Bert 1,091]

Yes it does. White males get treated with more respect, and have more opportunities than women or minorities.

Maybe in Hawaii. Not so much in the mainland.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

All this time I thought I was struggling through life, earning and busting my a $$ for thirty years to get where I'm at. Those years working two jobs, going without so my family would be provided for. Now I'm told it was handed to me. Had I but known I might have taken a different path in life. Who do I sue for not telling me sooner?

[lickin_starfish 1,480]

All this time I thought I was struggling through life, earning and busting my a $$ for thirty years to get where I'm at. Those years working two jobs, going without so my family would be provided for. Now I'm told it was handed to me. Had I but known I might have taken a different path in life. Who do I sue for not telling me sooner?

 

You need to hand some of those earnings to Malcom, as reparations for what your great-great-grandpappy did to his great-great grandpappy.

[vuduchile 1,941]

Yes it exists but it is not as common as some people might claim and most of the time the real benefit of being hire is really socio economic rather than racial.

This is accurate.

 

A Kentucky white boy with Mountain Dew mouth ain't getting special treatment from anyone.

 

Private schooled, Harvard bound legacy boy will have abundant opportunities due to Daddy's connections.

[5-Points 2,727]

Maybe in Hawaii. Not so much in the mainland.

Haole privilege.

[iam90sbaby 2,125]

This is accurate.

 

A Kentucky white boy with Mountain Dew mouth ain't getting special treatment from anyone.

 

Private schooled, Harvard bound legacy boy will have abundant opportunities due to Daddy's connections.

 

Anyone that went to Harvard is going to have more opportunities than someone who went to Community College or no college at all, of course. So is it Harvard Privilege? I am sure you will rebuttal that with "It is easier to get into Harvard if you are white." that may be true, but whites on average typically apply themselves much more while they are in school. Facts.

[vuduchile 1,941]

 

Anyone that went to Harvard is going to have more opportunities than someone who went to Community College or no college at all, of course. So is it Harvard Privilege? I am sure you will rebuttal that with "It is easier to get into Harvard if you are white." that may be true, but whites on average typically apply themselves much more while they are in school. Facts.

I'm not sure you understand my point.

 

Being white doesn't automatically open doors.

 

Being rich does.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,631]

I'm not sure you understand my point.

 

Being white doesn't automatically open doors.

 

Being rich does.

Bingo. And it doesn't matter what color you are or how you choose to orgasm. But the left can't admit this, because their leadership benefit from THAT privilige.

[kilroy69 994]

I would say I have the privileged of knowing that my interaction with the cops is going to go well. I am given the benefit of the doubt that I am not a threat. Black men are not afforded that. NOW. That being said. They have not earned that right due to their continued actions. You say racial profiling and white privilege. I say that act right and you will get treated different.

[iam90sbaby 2,125]

I'm not sure you understand my point.

 

Being white doesn't automatically open doors.

 

Being rich does.

 

Yeah sorry I missed it. Yes I agree, people are ultimately divided more by how wealthy they are moreso than anything else.

[penultimatestraw 473]

Maybe in Hawaii. Not so much in the mainland.

Actually it was much more evident off-island. Here, some people look at white males with distrust and contempt.

[Big Guy 1,400]

All I hear anyone talk about nowadays when you counter their absurd arguments is "oh well you have white make privelege you wouldn't understand". Like wtf does that have to do with you sounding like a retard? So my question is does it actually exist? Cause i haven't ever seen it

 

If it doesn't exist, it should......since White Men basically built the Country.

[penultimatestraw 473]

I'm not sure you understand my point.

Being white doesn't automatically open doors.

Being rich does.

Its funny how people are much more willing to accept differences due to socioeconomic strata in this context than others where blacks are implicated in something undesirable.

[vuduchile 1,941]

Its funny how people are much more willing to accept differences due to socioeconomic strata in this context than others where blacks are implicated in something undesirable.

Wait. What?

[TD Ryan2 314]

 

h "It is easier to get into Harvard if you are white." that may be true, but whites on average typically apply themselves much more while they are in school. Facts.

 

this is pretty interesting.

it was actually easier to get into Harvard as a white kid a short time ago because they had too many Asian, Indian, and Jewish kids... to diversify their student population (right or wrong) they needed more white kids.

 

and while white kids (or more accurately white culture) apply themselves to academics moreso than african american culture, they both fall short of asian, indian, and jewish cultures.

 

**asterisk**

jewish... always gets me... it's white... it's not white... whatever, you get the point.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

A guy I was working with told me a story recently. He was in West Virginia where his wife and her family are from. He met the owner of some store that his FIL had taken him to. When him and his FIL were in the truck he told his FIL that the owner of the store seemed like a pretty nice guy.

 

The FIL turns to him and says There is nothing lower in the state of West Virginia than a yankee. The only reason anyone tolerates you is because you are married to my Daughter. And this guy is a farmer who voted for Trump.

[TD Ryan2 314]

another part of the problem is the myth of the "self made man".

it's a cornerstone of the american success story - the idea that a person who had nothing and was given nothing was able to rise up to great levels of success.

 

but completely "self made" is rare and maybe even doesn't exist... everyone has had someone - a teacher, parent, mentor, etc. that

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

another part of the problem is the myth of the "self made man".

it's a cornerstone of the american success story - the idea that a person who had nothing and was given nothing was able to rise up to great levels of success.

 

but completely "self made" is rare and maybe even doesn't exist... everyone has had someone - a teacher, parent, mentor, etc. that

It exists. It's just not easy and it requires luck.