Well, this conversation has gone better than most. I've been in conversations where I've tried to give my opinion the moment they find out I'm white they scream privilege at me and then say that everything I say is automatically racist because I am white. Pretty much all the conversations on race relations end up like that. It's only a matter of time for this one to go the same way.
And people wonder why white people don't want to talk about race relations.
Did you watch the video?
White privilege, the slur , check your privilege, is a new label afforded as a racist pejorative intending to silence white people and in the process making for the admission that people of color are victim. Therein the label becomes a double insult, a narrative that marginalizes all people who invoke it.
Unfortunately, now with the advent of DNA there's a new narrative arriving that thinks to afford a new schism into civilized society. Attempting to argue that race is a myth, this narrative states that people should be afforded consideration due to ethnicity.
It seems a more gentle approach. Less visually biased.
It's the new racism only build on deeper ignorance.
It originated with the hyphenation of citizenship in this country based upon the superficial appearance and therein allusion to probable ethnicity.
The foremost community made subject to this anti-American racist pejorative was, African-Americans.
The idea that all black people were of a common ethnic origin.
And then it went further so as to hyphenate all American's based on superficial characteristics.
This fails enormously. Because it presumes all people are pure blood. It presumes all people of an ethnic origin look the same. And that is racism.
A few generations ago, possibly with the advent of the civil rights era in America, the word Caucasian became a slur. In fact in Anthropology it is a term no longer in technical use. Which says a great deal about PCism and its impact on society and anthropology generally.
Caucasian is defined as:Relating to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to tightly curled hair, and light to very dark eyes, and originally inhabiting Europe, parts of North Africa, western Asia, and India.
Contrary to what PCism would like to impart, Irish, English, Scottish persons are Caucasian. As example.
After that schism that fractured American identity with hyphenation that makes a racist superficial identity to preceded citizenship of the American so described, America has witnessed a slow evolution toward finding adjectives that invalidate Caucasian identity all together. And in its stead attach the pejorative labeling of white privilege onto any reckoning of Caucasian identity so as to impart a divisive social margin into the national community.
Whites are better, non-whites are victims of whites.
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White Privilege label then in and of itself destructs the new PC language that thinks it shall replace,
race and racism, with ,
ethnicity , so as to avoid the idea of marginalizing someone based on superficial appearance.
Folly of course. But that's PCism itself. Because unless someone takes a DNA swab of all people they meet so as to scientifically determine their ethnic heritage, they are going to continue to recognize peoples racial characteristics based on the superficial appearance pertaining to those. Just as they always have.
"White Privilege", is a racist pejorative that insults everyone equally.