If you’re like me, for the last couple of weeks you have been seeing the terms “Check Your Privilege” and “White Privilege” plastered all over the Internet by Liberal Operatives.
So, what the heck is it?
Well, according to a website titled whiteprivilegeconference.com, (Yes, there is such a thing. But, more on that in a moment.)
White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it… once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin addressing it on an individual and institutional basis. ~Paula Rothenberg
Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because of anything they’ve done or failed to do. Access to privilege doesn’t determine one’s outcomes, but it is definitely an asset that makes it more likely that whatever talent, ability, and aspirations a person with privilege has will result in something positive for them. ~Peggy McIntosh
Their website states that the White Privilege Conference or WPC is
a conference that examines challenging concepts of privilege and oppression and offers solutions and team building strategies to work toward a more equitable world.
Their 15th Annual Conference was held from March 25th – March 29th in the Liberal Academic Mecca of Madison, Wisconsin.
Some examples their website gives of “White Privilege” are
Being able to…
- assume that most of the people you or your children study in history classes and textbooks will be of the same race, gender, or sexual orientation as you are
- assume that your failures will not be attributed to your race, or your gender
- assume that if you work hard and follow the rules, you will get what you deserve
- success without other people being surprised; and without being held to a higher standard
- go out in public without fear of being harassed or constantly worried about physical safety
- not have to think about your race, or your gender, or your sexual orientation, or disabilities, on a daily basis…
Sounds like a bunch of excuse-making to me.
The website also includes some idiotic quotes by Liberal Academicians, like…
Whites need to acknowledge and work through the negative historical implications of ‘Whiteness’ and create for ourselves a transformed identity as White people committed to equity and social change…To teach my White students and my own children…that there are different ways of being White, and that they have a choice as White people to become champions of justice and social healing. ~Gary Howard
So, who coined this racist term? Why, a guilt-ridden White Liberal Academician, of course.
In an article published May 14th on Townhall.com, Cortney O’Brien wrote,
“Privilege” is a word that’s been tossed around a lot lately. But if you’re wondering about its origin, look no further than Peggy McIntosh, a women’s studies scholar at Wellesley College. Before Princeton freshman Tal Fortgang “Checked His Privilege” at the suggestion of his university professors, McIntosh wrote a paper in 1988 entitled “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” That insightful piece contained forty-six examples of white privilege. Where are all the environmentalists protesting all the wasted paper on that one? For more of a waste of time and effort, The New Yorker interviewed McIntosh to analyze the term ‘privilege’ once more:
How did people respond? Well, at first, the most common responses were from white people. Their most common response was “I never thought about this before.” After a couple of years, that was accompanied by “You changed my life.” From people of color, from the beginning, it was “You showed me I’m not crazy.” And if they said more than that it was along the lines of “I knew there was something out there working against me.”
…McIntosh’s unfortunate 15 minutes of privileged fame aren’t quite over yet. She is using all this new talk about privilege to give speeches about privilege to groups at the American Society for Engineering Education, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, the Ontario Nurses Association, and NASA’s Goddard Space Center.
The Goddard Space Center???!!!
Our Tax Money is paying for this divisive , racist mythology.
As a 55-year-old White man, who just happens to live right outside of Memphis, Tennessee, the only time I can ever remember being “Privileged”, is when my 6th Grade Health Sciences Teacher, Mr. Monroe Ballard, a wonderful, gentle, jolly, big man and outstanding teacher, who just happened to have been Black, gave me a permanent Hall Pass, which he called a “Privileged Character Pass”, for having a “A” average in his class.
And, all that “privilege” entitled me to was access to the school bathroom during his class.
I never received any breaks during my 30 years in the Business World simply because I was White. I have worked my hindquarters off in every job I have ever been “privileged” to work at.
The racist term “White Privilege” is nothing more than a myth…a theory that was thought up in order to sell books, by a pointy-headed Liberal Academician in the 1980s.
Liberals are running it up their Fascist Flagpole again, in order to provide cover for the most inept president in American History, Barack Hussein Obama, as an addendum to their proclamation that if you oppose the policies and actions of their failed messiah, you are a RAAACIIIST!
The problem with this new Liberal meme is an obvious one:
It is hard to put any weight behind the myth of “White Privilege” when the President of the United States of America, the “Leader of the Free World”, is A BLACK MAN.
WELLL…DUUUUH.
Until He Comes,
KJ