{"id":53639,"date":"2015-05-29T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53639"},"modified":"2015-05-29T06:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:12:47","slug":"privilege-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53639","title":{"rendered":"Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

A friend has a Facebook page. He linked to this<\/a> <\/p>\n

Immediately, a Black woman responded: \u201cPeople will stop talking white privilege when society doesn\u2019t provide significant benefits to one group for arbitrary reasons. Until then, we have a problem\u2026unless you\u2019re a white male and you\u2019re the one getting all the privileges at the expense of others.\u201d<\/p>\n

From her Facebook page, she went to Howard, then DePaul for a JD\/MBA and lives in a giant house in Maryland.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking of writing a comment to my friend, saying \u201cGeez, dude, why did you join the military to pay for college? Why didn\u2019t you swing by the Office of Giving Free Stuff To White Men for your college degree? Could have picked up the keys to your Lexus and home in the suburbs while you were at it (the house used to come with a free Mexican to handle the yard work but that program was cut under Bush, the bastard).\u201d<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t, because on the off chance that she\u2019s a civil rights lawyer affirmatively actioned into the Justice Department to sue White males for Eric Holder, I don\u2019t want to get my friend in trouble. <\/p>\n

Can\u2019t have a dialogue with a person like that. Her \u201cdialogue\u201d assumes facts not in evidence and she\u2019s not interested in hearing them.<\/p>\n

Racial tension is worse than any time since the Civil War and yet Blacks have never had it better. <\/p>\n

Hmmm, I see there\u2019s a civil rights complaint against Harvard <\/a><\/p>\n

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for discriminating against Asians in favor of Blacks. It seems Harvard has been providing significant benefits to one group at the expense of others, for arbitrary reasons. Can we start that dialogue about privilege now?<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A leader in the local “Black Lives Matter” movement is fond of invoking “white privilege” when she’s stumped in an argument. Which gives us the fax fascinating juxtaposition of a woman with a tenured academic job for life hectoring people in the private job market about “privilege”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A friend has a Facebook page. He linked to this Immediately, a Black woman responded: \u201cPeople will stop talking white privilege when society doesn\u2019t provide significant benefits to one group for arbitrary reasons. Until then, we have a problem\u2026unless you\u2019re a white male and you\u2019re the one getting all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,54,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53644,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53639\/revisions\/53644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}