What is "White Privilege" in american politics and law?

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Someone told me I enjoy certain privileges cause I am white, I don't understand the idea of white privilege. It seems very racist.

Do you think white people get a advantage for being white?

I mean, I don't get a lot of scholarships because I'm not a minority. What laws or system favors me being white?

You get the privilege of being the scapegoat and being the scapegoat based solely upon the color of your skin.
 
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Someone told me I enjoy certain privileges cause I am white, I don't understand the idea of white privilege. It seems very racist.

Do you think white people get a advantage for being white?

I mean, I don't get a lot of scholarships because I'm not a minority. What laws or system favors me being white?
Things like, you're more likely to get a job interview if your application has an Anglo or European name than if it has an African or Asian one. You were more likely to have access to a better school in your area. Your parents are more likely to be educated, and that's a massively good predictor of your educational outcomes. You're more likely to be trusted, and more likely not to be beaten up by the police.
 
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Things like, you're more likely to get a job interview if your application has an Anglo or European name than if it has an African or Asian one. You were more likely to have access to a better school in your area. Your parents are more likely to be educated, and that's a massively good predictor of your educational outcomes. You're more likely to be trusted, and more likely not to be beaten up by the police.

And you know this how? Where's the study?

And why is this comment not racist? Even if it's positive, if I said all Asians are good at math, it'd be racist.
 
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Things like, you're more likely to get a job interview if your application has an Anglo or European name than if it has an African or Asian one. You were more likely to have access to a better school in your area. Your parents are more likely to be educated, and that's a massively good predictor of your educational outcomes. You're more likely to be trusted, and more likely not to be beaten up by the police.

I will also add, he has probably never experienced racial discrimination a day in his life, let alone had to deal with it every day of his life. So, when he's told that he's filthy and dirty because of his race or told that the entire worth of his race can be found at the bottom of a whiskey bottle, then we might have something substantial to talk about.
 
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And you know this how? Where's the study?
All of these have been in studies I've read recently, or read about recently. If I find a link will you accept them? Some of them studied Australia, but there's every reason to think the same would apply in the U.S.

And why is this comment not racist? Even if it's positive, if I said all Asians are good at math, it'd be racist.
You'd be incorrect.
 
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Before I respond, I would like to point out that I define "white privilege" as privilege based on the white skin.
Things like, you're more likely to get a job interview if your application has an Anglo or European name than if it has an African or Asian one.
So if he changes his name from a Anglo or European language to another language. He would less likely be interview after the change then? That's hardly "white privilege" from what I'm seeing.

You were more likely to have access to a better school in your area.
What area? How do you know there is a better school in the area? If so, how much better and in what way?
Your parents are more likely to be educated, and that's a massively good predictor of your educational outcomes.
How that a white privilege? Having educated parents is not tied to skin color. Are you implying that people with darker skin color is less educated in general?
You're more likely to be trusted, and more likely not to be beaten up by the police.
Being trusted in terms of what exactly? Not lying, being reliable etc? Do the police beaten up because of the skin color, or because they typically resist arrest thus promote the police into action?
 
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Someone told me I enjoy certain privileges cause I am white, I don't understand the idea of white privilege. It seems very racist.
You are correct.
It's a term used as leverage by those type minorities so as to intimidate anyone who holds to law and order being applied fair and equally in America.
Often the slogan you're speaking of is said to be valid because of the number of minorities in American prisons and on death row.
Whereas the truth is people are in American jails and prisons because they did something to be there.
 
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I will also add, he has probably never experienced racial discrimination a day in his life, let alone had to deal with it every day of his life. So, when he's told that he's filthy and dirty because of his race or told that the entire worth of his race can be found at the bottom of a whiskey bottle, then we might have something substantial to talk about.

How about being told your race is a bunch of oppresors that stole everything they had from others who were all just minding their own business and living in peaceful harmony until your dirty race came along and ruined everything? r is that just the truth and we should admit to being an inferior race of rotten scoundrels that have been the only wrongdoers the face of the earth.
 
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How about being told your race is a bunch of oppressors that stole everything they had from others who were all just minding their own business and living in peaceful harmony until your dirty race came along and ruined everything? r is that just the truth and we should admit to being an inferior race of rotten scoundrels that have been the only wrongdoers the face of the earth.
Recognize that for what it is. Racist hate speech.
Thank God forums have rules that would ban such behavior after it is reported by any and all who witness it. You're safe from that at least in that cyber situation.

In the off-line world it is easy to avoid by walking away from someone who would dare say that to your face.
 
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Someone told me I enjoy certain privileges cause I am white, I don't understand the idea of white privilege. It seems very racist.
Then perhaps you should be asking us what "racist" means first.
Do you think white people get a advantage for being white?
Yes, definitely. Many employers discriminate based on the names of the applicants. All-white juries are significantly more likely to convict black defendants than white defendants.
 
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All of these have been in studies I've read recently, or read about recently. If I find a link will you accept them? Some of them studied Australia, but there's every reason to think the same would apply in the U.S.

I would like to see these studies. If you don't want to post them, please send them to me via private message. Thank you.
 
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And you know this how? Where's the study?

And why is this comment not racist? Even if it's positive, if I said all Asians are good at math, it'd be racist.

If you said "all Asians are good at math", it would be racist.

If you said "Asians tend to be good at math", it might be racist, depending on whether you made the statement based off of observable data or if it's just something "in your gut".

If you said "Asians have tested higher in math than other racial groups", you would be making a statement (ideally if you used that statement, you would have evidence in support of your statement).

One obvious key is this: If you're talking about about a group of people, ascribing*all* of the members of the group a particular value (unless that value is a necessary component) is generally bad form.
 
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An Australian study showed that white and East Asian individuals in that country are much more likely than those with darker skin to be allowed to ride public buses without having to pay the proper fare. Law firms are more critical of the writing skills of black lawyers than white lawyers.

I'm not really sure why so many people are intent on denying something that the research shows again and again in all aspects of life. This isn't so much directed at OP, since it seems you haven't seen the research before. But you must be a saint if you're a white person and you haven't ever had evidence of racial prejudice and white privilege rolling around in your own head. I know my thoughts have perpetuated it.
 
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Before I respond, I would like to point out that I define "white privilege" as privilege based on the white skin.
Since the Op question is "what is meant by...", how you define it isn't hugely relevant.

So if he changes his name from a Anglo or European language to another language. He would less likely be interview after the change then?
Yup.

What area? How do you know there is a better school in the area? If so, how much better and in what way?
In general, areas with higher socio-economic indicators have schools that turn out better results (for a variety of well understood reasons). And socio-economic indicators correlate with ethnic background.

How that a white privilege? Having educated parents is not tied to skin color. Are you implying that people with darker skin color is less educated in general?
Yes.

Being trusted in terms of what exactly? Not lying, being reliable etc?
Yep.

Do the police beaten up because of the skin color, .../QUOTE]
There's plenty of evidence of such being the case, yes.
 
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I would like to see these studies. If you don't want to post them, please send them to me via private message. Thank you.
It's not that I mind publishing links, it's that I'd have to go looking for them.

Except for the education ones, where I'd cite "Undemocratic Schooling" and "Academic Success and Social Power" by Richard Tees.
 
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It's not that I mind publishing links, it's that I'd have to go looking for them.

Except for the education ones, where I'd cite "Undemocratic Schooling" and "Academic Success and Social Power" by Richard Tees.

Oh, I thought you may already have them available to post. It's okay then. I know that's a lot of work.
 
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Since the Op question is "what is meant by...", how you define it isn't hugely relevant.
It is impotent if we going to discuss on what constitute of being "white-privilege".

How's language a white privilege then?
In general, areas with higher socio-economic indicators have schools that turn out better results (for a variety of well understood reasons). And socio-economic indicators correlate with ethnic background.
Ok, but as the saying goes "correlation doesn't equal causation". If it simple matter of location than I don't see it as white privilege.
I do appreciate your honesty(No really, the sjw that I know would never admit this). Hoverer it raises more questions than it answers, such the question as did they attend school and if so how well they did, among other things.

Link to this evidence you mention?
 
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It's when you exercise your right in an open-carry state to walk down the street with a rifle in your hands and the police talk to you for half an hour without even pulling out their guns and certainly without throwing you down on the ground.

It's when you get pulled over by the police for missing a license plate and it doesn't end up with you getting shot in the head or even going to jail no matter how much you verbally abuse the officer.

It's when you truly don't expect this to happen to you, even when you're doing everything you can not to resist arrest:

http://abc7ny.com/archive/9440401/
 
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