No offense but you are also completely clueless about what white privilege is.
You can tell there's not much intelligence or objective posters here. Willie99 made a terrible case and it hurt his side more than anything.
Nobody is denying that Asians, Indians and certain races excel and dominate academics and financially in America. Building wealth after coming to this country with 20 dollars in their pockets. We acknowledge that and give them props.
But what the hell does that have to do with the argument against white privilege existing? I mean I know the weak point this guy was trying to make but it doesn't even make any sense. Lol.
Whites are still getting an advantage for white collar jobs..ahem, CEO positions manager positions etc. How the hell does the Vietnamese succeeding against all odds relate to white privilege?
How do we fight white privilege when people even deny that it exists? That's why we have a long way to go.
Many whites don't see it because they can never see it.
If you don't think being white gives you an upper hand right from the start you are either delusional, in denial or full of shit lol.
Those whites that willie speaks of that made it, even though they worked hard and went to school etc still partially made it because they were white. That helped them along the way I guarantee you.
This guy is talking about the great depression era LOL. Yes very relevant indeed cough cough. Those whites during that era were dealt a heavy blow but how lucky for them that they were white and can go out and easily get hired or go to school and get fast tracked to promotions and high paying jobs because they are white? How would a minority fair in that depression? Would they even be hired to some of the jobs that those people obtained?
Now having said that, let's stick to 2019 shall we? Lol.
White people saying white privilege doesn't exist should be ignored right off the bat lol
Who has the better chance at surviving a routine traffic stop where there's a misunderstand or what not? A white or a black?
How many of those poor white americans were eventually able to afford farms and land that their ancestors inherited and all that wealth that was accumulated over that time from the olden days?
When blacks were left behind and their kids and their kids never got that same chance? All that shouldn't affect how hard they work or study now but if we are talking about the great depression and olden days you can't ignore how whites accumulated and inherited land and wealth over time and it's helping them lead luxurious lives or at least their kids' kids or their kids whatever. Blacks had opportunities too but not to the extent whites did.
Being white means tailoring the media and books and school system to suit their needs and make them appear to have the image of good people, non violent people. Where other history books in other countries paint the whites as savages when they took over other lands and raped and killed and all sorts of atrocities, whites tailored the textbooks that paint over or leave out such details.
White privilege means you never have to be followed around shopping mall or store because you're black in a store/city where they don't see many blacks.
White privilege means a lot of things but mostly it means you're getting the top white collar positions. That's fact.
So when you talk about the Vietnamese or Indians or Chinese etc succeeding and building wealth then hell yeah I give them props. But whites? Meh. Yeah some of them do it too but the system is tailormade for them to succeed so nothing special there.
Learn something people. Open your minds and wake up to the country you live in.
Any white man that denies white privilege exists is secretly fuming that there's programs out there helping to even the playing field and they miss it being heavily favored towards them (which it still is)
Thank God for affirmative action, campaigns against racism and just generally the younger generations become more and more liberal and less racist.
My parents accumulated wealth as first generation Asians and they often said look at the blacks they are just lazy and make excuses but it's easy to point fingers. Only later did they understand what disadvantages they have.
Who are you to talk about the Vietnamese Willie? How do you know what they've been through? Just because they made it means they that America isn't racist or white privilege exists? Do you not think those Vietnamese (which you sort of eluded to reluctantly) faced racism and huge hurtles due to the fact that they weren't white?! Duh! You admitted it in your own words you clown! That's white privilege too! When you avoid these things and don't have to face those obstacles.
How the hell would most of you ever understand or empathize with a minority and how it feels and what toll it takes on you when you are called a nig er or sp c, or chi k or whatever? Most of the time you are the majority everywhere you go and now that America is getting more and more people of color in it look how nervous you are getting. So imagine what it was like for minorities back in the olden day?
Now don't even try to use that weak argument of oh we get called h nkey or this n that too. If you don't realize why it's not the same (it's still wrong) then you don't get it.
Moddeeper7239..preach all you want but there's some cowardly, stubborn, old aged racists on here and they will never understand. They are just dinosaurs stuck in their ways and luckily most of them are old Af and will wither away in the coming years and make America a better place than it already is.
We've made progress yes but until the playing field is completely even it will be an issue and the groups involved should keep fighting for more and more equality.