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02/21/2010: "So-Called White Privilege"

"http://newrightamerica.blogspot.com/2010/02/leftist-invention-of-white-privilege.html"

by Dustin Stanley

Much of the "anti-racist" establishment has, in recent decades, latched onto a theory which they call "white privilege" that they use to explain why non-whites in America have a generally lower socioeconomic status, among other things, than whites. The claim is that whites in this country have an unearned "privilege" which causes them to have a generally higher socioeconomic status, among other things, than non-whites. The claim is usually then followed by demands for some sort of compensation from whites to non-whites for having "white privilege".

Now, I do not profess to know whether or not "white privilege" actually exists, any more than I profess to know whether or not God exists. But I do maintain that no "anti-racist" has ever proven that "white privilege" exists. This is because those arguing that it exists commit the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent. Their arguments always go something like this: "White privilege causes whites to have a better socioeconomic status on average than their non-white counterparts, whites have a better socioeconomic status than their non-white counterparts, therefore white privilege exists."

This of course does not logically work, unless you are a college student who never learned logic and instead are busy fawning over the "white guilt" fest that goes on at colleges and universities all across this country courtesy of people like Tim Wise and the bottom-feeding faculty and administrators that invite people like him over and over again to the universities to poison the minds of their students. To be sure, sometimes they will toss in a few more red herrings such as "whites are X times more likely to receive a loan than non-whites", or "whites are Y times more likely to be called back for a job interview than non-whites" to argue for the existence of "white privilege". However, even these red herrings affirm the consequent, as "anti-racists" claim that "white privilege" causes these effects, but yet they point to nothing but the supposed effects, and then they affirm these effects in order to "prove" the "white privilege" that supposedly caused them. Again, this does not work from a logical standpoint.

When all else falls through, they invariably bring out the old guilt trip of slavery and Jim Crow in the South. But this fails as well, as the South is only a small fraction of the nation as a whole. Now, as back then, most Americans are not Southerners. Yet "anti-racists" want to claim that "white privilege" is everywhere, both in the North and in the South. Again, this does not work. Sometimes they will try one last "Hail Mary" by saying that slavery in the South provided the capital that built up the entire country, including the North, so thus "white privilege" is everywhere in America, including the North. (Sometimes right-wing Southern nationalists will too claim that the South's money built up the North's industry.) Both the Southern nationalists and the "anti-racists" are wrong, however. The North was always much wealthier than the South, and the capital that built up the North in fact came from industrialization and mechanization there, which was used to create even more industrialization and mechanization, which itself was used to create even more industrialization and mechanization, until the North became a shining example of an industrial powerhouse that rivaled even its much more established counterparts in Europe.

"White privilege" is a slippery eel invented by leftist academia that not only have they failed to prove, it may be by its nature impossible to either prove or disprove, for much the same reason that it is impossible to either prove or disprove the existence of God, or the existence of invisible men the size of atoms living inside your ear. This is indeed is a big part of the reason why it's so slippery and why they've tossed it out there. But again, as they haven't proven it, they need to stop misinforming the American public, and they need to stop asking for compensation, especially from naive and impressionable children and college students who don't know any better. If they continue to ask for compensation from people, especially the most vulnerable and naive, without proof or with the pseudo-arguments that they always present as "proof", then they have shown themselves to be no better than snake-oil salesmen and other con-men.

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on Tuesday, February 23rd, Ann said

Blacks and race hustlers fail to admit that whites are better off financially, job wise, education wise, etc because we work for it. They state that everything whites achieve is because we are privileged. This couldn't be more false. With all the special programs out there for blacks and minorities, whites are often passed over for jobs, promotions, scholarships meant only for blacks. We don't get the privilege of getting something handed to us due to a government sponsored and enforced quota system.

Working hard, getting a good education, not committing crime, developing a good credit rating, etc. all should lead one to being better off financially and socially. This isn't a privilege, its a right! Blacks will never learn this, or even try to recognize this.