I reject and renounce my White Male Privilege
Robert Peffers
are believed to be enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly
experienced by people of color in the same social, political, and
economic spaces (nation, community, workplace, income, etc.).
Theorists differentiate it from racism or prejudice because, they say,
a person who may benefit from white privilege is not necessarily
racist or prejudiced and may be unaware of having any privileges
reserved only for whites.
Scholars associated with the legal studies field of critical race
theory have argued that whiteness or white racial status can be
thought of as property, something of value owned by certain members of
society.
This idea has been advanced in particular by Cheryl Harris and George
Lipsitz. Betsy Lucal writes that current ideas about racism are
limited because of their tendency to focus only on racial "minorities"
and the oppressive aspects of race. This approach, she writes,
overlooks how whites are affected by race and indeed receive
privileges through race. Dan J. Pence and J. Arthur Fields suggest
that resistance to the idea of white privilege stems from a tendency
of whites to see inequality as a black or Latino issue. White
reactions to such critiques include a continuum ranging from
theoretical and academic discourse, artistic expression, activism,
hostility, and a "wall of silence."
A study published by Branscombe et al. found that thinking about the
benefits gained from a privileged group membership can threaten social
identity and evoke justification of the existing status difference
between the ingroup and a disadvantaged group. White Canadians may
defend racial privilege by concurring with modern racist attitudes.
The study found that increased racism in response to thoughts of white
privilege was limited to those who highly identified with their racial
category. In contrast, when white racial identification was
sufficiently low, thoughts of white privilege reliably reduced modern
racism. Statements about racial inequality may be framed as either
White privileges or Black disadvantages. When framed as White
privileges, a 2005 study found that the statements resulted in greater
collective guilt and lower racism compared to a Black disadvantage
framing. The findings suggest that representing inequality in terms of
outgroup disadvantage allows privileged group members to avoid the
negative implications of inequality.
In the essay, White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack, Peggy
McIntosh sought to enumerate the social, political and cultural
advantages accorded to whites in American society. McIntosh says there
are parallels between white privilege, male privilege and heterosexual
privilege.
As a white male holds both a university degree and a professional job
with status; I speak with the
assumption that people not only will listen, but will take me
seriously. I speak with the assumption that my motives will not be
challenged; I can rely on the perception of me as a neutral authority,
someone whose observations can be trusted.
Every time I open my mouth, I draw on, and in some ways reinforce, my
privilege, which is in large part tied to race. Right now, I want to
use that privilege to acknowledge the many non-white people who took
the time to tell me about the enduring realities of racism in Canada.
And, I want to talk to the white people who I think misread my
postings and misunderstand what's at stake.
While it is certainly true that white people are sometimes the victims
of racism or racism occurs between different people of color, these
incidents fail in comparison to the number of people of colour who
are
victimized by institutionalized white racism; it's not hard to see
where the real problem lays. While it is important to oppose racism
against white people, there is most certainly nothing inherently wrong
or racist in pointing out the facts of institutional and societal
white racism and white privilege. It is also important to expose and
oppose unearned white male privilege which continues to victimize
women, visible minorities, aboriginals, and people with disabilities.
Racism against white people and racism between different people of
color should always be condemned
and denounced. Furthermore, racism between different white ethnic
groups such as anti-Francophone
bigotry and anti-Anglophone bigotry should always be condemned and
opposed. As a White Anglo Saxon Protestant male myself, I am very much
aware of the level of anti-Francophone bigotry which exists in
Anglophone Canada and particularly amongst fellow White Anglo Saxon
Protestant males. However, I am still proud of my ethnicity, culture,
and heritage and I make no apologizes for it.
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Tell us dickhead, what are these so-called "white privleges", and who
is responsible for handing they out? You dumb fudk; you have no idea
of what you are talking about.
All politically-correct liberal-fascists like you are despicable and
insufferable. We ge he same shit from you as we get from ideological
scum like David Reilley and Remailer.
gordo
There you go again attacking the poster instead of disputing what was
posted.I have been in the Pertroleum Club in Calgary,the Union Club in
Victoria,the Chinnook club in Lethbridge and the CPR room in
Ottawa.They share one thing in common and that is our future is
decided in these kind of places by mostly wasps.If you are privileged
and white you may get invited.
cornholio
discriminated
AGAINST in both university enrollment and government jobs legally.
It's called
affirmative action, when it should be really called anti-whitey racism.
Joe
The first step is to buy a dull pair of traditional hedge cutters.
Insert nuts and close handles.
Chom Noamsky
I also reject your white male privilege...
M I Wakefield
"Robert Peffers" <auldbobp...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Fixed you header.
gordo
I call that heifer dust. You make a claim yet offer no evidence.I do
see here in Canada that aboriginals hardly ever get to university
while they make up a larger proportion of people incarcerated.Try the
highway of tears or try the 50 or so women murdered by Pickton and
perhaps his accomplices and see the number of young first nations
people.Why were the police so slow in these mass murders of first
nation people.Do these young women deserve to die?
gordo
>Robert Peffers wrote:
>
>I also reject your white male privilege..
What is needed is a realization that there are people in Canada who
have no idea of what it is to be poor and discriminated against.If you
are one of them perhaps you could spend some time with the poor and
you might learn about discrimination.Their problem affect us all and
we all pay for it when these people of privilege are the cause of
other peoples misery and do not even know it.