Frog Hospital's Fred Owens Thinks The Phrase "White Privilege" Should Not Be Used

Fred Owens

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"White privilege" is the current buzz word. It doesn't make any sense to me but I see it all over my Facebook feed. White privilege is something you were born with. If you are white you have it, and you cannot overcome it. You can refuse it or deny it, but you still have it. There is no choice, no growth and no redemption. White privilege is deeply discouraging and pessimistic.

So I say the hell with white privilege. When I came of age in the Sixties it was all about being ...

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• VS: You may find it hard to understand the meaning of "white privilege" because you have it. I visited southern states during the period before the Civil Rights Act. People there understood the meaning of white privilege (and they still do).

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  Fred Owens Virginia, Of course I have it. So do you. It's very clever to use that phrase.

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  Alan Archibald Things change Fred. 
  
  And as they change, critical thresholds get crossed: slowly, the accumulation of quantitative change becomes qualitative change.
  
  An illustration.
  
  Ever since Nixon and his “Southern Strategy,” American politics have become incrementally more coarse. 
  
  And now Donald Trump occupies the White House. 
  
  Even more bewilderingly, America’s most “devout” “Christians” (a hugely disproportionate number of them white), are Deranged Donald’s most ardent supporters.
  
  Notably, these supporters are not just uneducated fundamentalists. 
  
  Many of “the good Catholics” with whom you and I grew up and worked are — this very moment — at Sunday morning mass, chatting with their fellows, strategizing how they can ensure His Deplorability’s re-election. 
  
  They consider it their moral duty.
  
  Discussion of “white privilege” is not just important but indispensable because so many white people — including damn near everyone in Devious Donald’s Caucasian “Christian” Base — no longer believe “white privilege” exists.
  
  To the contrary...
  
  “White People Think Discrimination Against Black People Is Worse Than Bias Against Black People”
  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../whites-think...
  
  Consider.
  
  Nazism and pan-Aryanism were inseparable. 
  
  Do we “white-wash” Nazism — and Neo-Nazism — by pretending that the pan-Aryan component does not exist? 
  
  I judge people by the content of their character and can’t help noticing how many economically and socially privileged “bad characters” are not only white but behave (at least in their political lives) in ways that range from mean-spirited to cruel.
  
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