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What puzzles me: no one seems to care or talk about the indegenous people of the continent whose land has been forcefully taken, they've been mass slaughtered and those who survived were put into reservations. Of course land that can barely be cultivated. They still live there, the one thing the USA could put right is to give the remaining indegenous people their land back and let them rule because they were there first. But this is out of question nor even discussion. Making UN guidelines while not caring at all to act accordingly to it. All we hear about is rights for black people and compensations, turning hate against white people blaming them for the crimes they didn't commit but nothing about those who suffered most, nearly erupted and still suffer from this outrageous crimes. Why does no-one stand for the indegenous people? All except them actually don't belong there. But it seems they don't get any voice, support, inclusion etc. I don't understand it. I'm not American, never been there, but this is something I don't understand. There should be an indegenous president only. Could someone enlighten me, why they're not included and get more support and rights? 🤔
What's with all the 100 word plus questions?? They give me a head ache (and usually irrelevant) SO tired of numb nuts.
You know it is a hustle when you ask them what would need to be accomplished to prove we have overcome white privilege or racism and they can’t give an answer.
Even Dukes need dustmen
Darwinian stratification happens WITHIN races too. What do you think CLASS is all about...?
How about usurping BLM slogan with All lives matter………then fully and properly fund the police. Guys we need solutions for the masses to grab and hold on to.
As a woman with darker than average skin and a conglomerate of backgrounds, I am so very tired of the divisive woke ideologies. She has a rather smug look as she asked the question, but it sounded like she was actually listening to the answer. That gives hope. A refreshing clip. The reality is we are all being played like puppets. Dividing us is the goal as part of a bigger goal of one world communism. Lord have mercy on us all.
Why is it that these (mostly female) activists lecturing about white privilege look so comfortable and well-fed?
Don't spoil history for the woke. .... the ONLY Privilege that has ever existed is wealth.... money buys Privilege.
I'm a teacher and I have refused to participate in our DEI training. After the first one where I was basically called a white racist, and realized Jews don't count as a minority to them, I was done.
"Very few people know anything." - Douglas Murray Perfect quote for why we are screwed
Well undeniably there are white "privileged" people men usually because women and blacks were segregated and denied opportunities to go to school or even vote hundreds of years ago but "privilege" often just means wealth and there are some black and female wealthy people now compared to years ago. Certainly white serfs that revolted against the King in Britain in the 15 000s or whenever were not very privileged. Don't deny the modern slavery vs privilege that goes on now either even Douglas is privileged to be openly homosexual now compared to decades ago he would have imprisoned just for that like Oscar Wilde likely so no sense denying LGBTQ were never oppressed.
Thomas Sowell wrote a book titled, “Affirmative Action Around The World” where he illustrates how this policy has been a universal failure for those it was supposedly created to help. To paraphrase Dr. Sowell, ‘affirmative action is unique in that it harms everyone involved in different ways.’ By admitting black students into schools based solely on race you inevitably end up mismatching students with the wrong school. Thus it results in taking students who would be on the honor roll in a state school and turns them into artificial failures in an Ivy League school as they struggle to keep up with the high demands of the work. This is something they their white counterparts with similar grades would never be exposed to. On top of that asian students who have the grades and are prepared to succeed in an Ivy League school are to often are forced to settle with a lesser school that fails to challenge them. Affirmative action does not lot enough slots for the numerous high performing Asian students holding them back as well! Affirmative action harms everyone involved! Kenny Xu keep speaking the truth!
Nothing he says really made a point. Yeah, history was bad for people in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, I’m not denying that. But just because people back then had it worse doesn’t mean that white privilege doesn’t exist. And to people saying “oh I had it rough”, no doubt you did. So did I. But, taking the US for example, their justice system is constructed to harm non whites. Basically every part of their society is built around harming non whites.
Of course everything is new when you know nothing.
It is an expression used only by uneducated, vacuous cretins and with no real life experience.
My father was given an orange by my widowed grandmother for Christmas when he was 12 years old.
Brilliant
Tracing my family history back, prior to my grandfather, some two hundred years, they all appear to have been farm labourers. No sign of any privilege anywhere. So, I get really pizzed off with this BS.
What is she talking about?... she is all over the place talking nothing . Its to her colonialism has ended. Be quite!!.
Ah yes, the relative level or "lack of privilege" competition. "My father had to walk 50 km to school, uphill, both ways." "Mine had to as well but he also had to fend off lions on his way."
Just stop with the BS college degrees. Black studies, women's studies, gender studies, fashion...WTH is a degree in fashion?
It's just a racist term, always has been.
We have this now in Australia. Most of us with Anglo/ Irish heritage have a convict past, with stories of incredible cruelty, chain gangs, torture, etc. Yes, this was in the past but it was our story. Now, we are invaders and colonisers. Our ancestors were ripped from their homes and families and sent across to the other side of the world, so far away that the seasons are opposite, and for minor or petty crimes. Yet, every year when we celebrate the fact that this terrible beginning created an incredible country we are told that it should be called invasion day rather than Australia Day. An invasion of 11 ships, three of which were supply ships, six were packed full of convicts and only two had any military presence. Apparently this small fleet invaded an entire society and colonised them! Our version of the BBC (ABC) now runs this as their common story every January.
maybe some people think it is a privilege being white ? when you are very poor and white , really ?
In life, the biggest division is not by race, but by being in different income groups, which brings different opportunities, housing, educational standards for our children, life experiences, etc. Anyone can move into a different income group through edication and hard work. In my first school, in the 1970's, the only black kid there was also one of the "posh" kids, as his dad was a paediatrician at the local children's hospital and his mother a senior nurse and their house was - detached!! Achieved through hard work and a desire to get on in life. There's no white privilege, or any other inherent privilege and believing there is only holds people back.
White privilege means that the white photographer could afford a tripod and not make the viewer nauseous!
Today, in the uk and the USA, I see that minorities have more privileges than whites. They get jobs and univ places JUST because they are minority and not on their merits
Our family have looked into our ancestors past quite extensively, back to Samson's of Sheldich, Kent in the 1760's, we were definately all white and Britsh, but not privileged - we were very, very poor. It is only in this last 20 years that some of the younger ones have been able to study at college or go onto university and have a qualification that led them to have a career. All our older ancestors were either going out to work at the age of 14 or going to war, or working on farms and being in service as young girls and boys or In one very sad case died in the workhouse - WHITE PRIVILEGE- what exactly is that? Who made this up to blame white people for all the wrong doings of the world?
Its because the term "white" is now attached to racism, if we stated Caucasian Privilege its not as bad. This is generational trauma, Bit when you look at it from the most basic understanding and remove skin color, its actually called "The majority privilege" By labeling the kind as the source of the issue we fail to see what the real issue actually is, which is Minorities of all subgroups have issue with feeling heard, and having the same rights. This applies to all Minorities in any country across the world Mexicans in America, and in Canada Caucasians in China and Japan Asians, Japanese's in America Caucasians in India Once we finalization with true multiculturism within all lands, we will see our archaic ideologies slip away for a new reality. Why immigration is actually helping us solve racism.
George Elliot may be part of the cannon as he says - but capitalism encourages niche marketing - why? - it works - it sells more books
One example: White privilege is when whites are seen as individuals while every black person is blamed for any and all problems in the black community. Another example: White privilege is brutally colonizing a land destroying the people and their culture and then forcing your European systems on them while holding all of the land and resources from them and making them labor to live while forcing your religion on them. There are many many more examples but I don't think this comment will stay up long anyways
"history was a mess for almost everyone" White supremacy informs his opinion....
Douglas Murray is brilliant. I would never want to argue with him. I don't know that I could successfully argue the existence of air against Douglas Murray
You've never read Letter from a Birmingham Jail and it shows. It's funny how anti-antis always focus on Robin DiAngelo's corporate shill of a book, and ignore the existence of Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want To Talk About Race. I guess it's more lucrative to focus on people who got it wrong instead of engaging with writers and thinkers who move beyond your superficial critiques.
I am white angelo. I do believe there is white privilege due to the deserved reputation we have to meet the demand requiring our best performance to be hired and dependability to retain employment. You could also say there is Jewish and Asian privilege due to a higher performance level in college academics and career than anglos. A simple fact, some cultures take education and career much more seriously than other cultures. It is a choice....
What kind of "white privilege" did my grandfather have who was one of the "home children" from Great Britain? My white grandfather was essentially a child slave, sent to Canada in the early 20th century. He worked, he made a life for himself and would not be victimised.
Around the world over for 100’s of year and more ,a gay man married a female but had his private life bc it was illegal but we still have it today! Look at Phillip Sco field. ,! But the romans went both ways and that was normal.. we’ve come a long way and yet it’s still taboo in lots of ways.. ignorance is a huge matter.
They come from college today that illiterate and unlearned😮
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Looking through these comments, I don't think I've ever seen so many people looking for an excuse for their worthless, failed lives. How sad and pathetic.
Asians earn more money in the USA so I guess they have Asian privilege?
if she had seen the preveliges we had when growing up she is rich in comparison so shut your mouth and learn history
Thanks Douglas for being so transparently dishonest in your answer. Helps us to remember that you're not worth listening too.
White privilege? What, you mean white people being white in white Europe before 1945? 😂 Would black people have black privilege by virtue of being black in Africa?
Esther speaks such sense. Thanks for leading the way to sanity Esther.
White privilege is a lot of nonsense.
Speak up everyone
Whites weren’t enslaved or colonized, which was a worse mess for People’s of color . Homosexual men were not exploited and oppressed as colored and women .
White people were enslaved and colonised, Viking’s, romans conquered Europe. In Eastern Europe the ottomans enslaved Slavs.
I'm a leftist and decidedly not woke. Conversations pertaining to the division of labor and redistribution of wealth needn't be sullied by Identity politics. I think everyone should have unfettered access to healthcare and education, a home is your birthright, clean water is more important than any amount of economic progress, and there are two genders.