Are there any examples of "white privilege" that still exist?

Yes.

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Casual Impartial Observer wrote:

Yes.

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What are they?

Somewhere else on this board today someone noted the rates of death for white persons in jail/prison.

This odd stat has long been recognized for what it is - white people have an incredibly long leash in our society to be criminal, and the larger the crime, the longer the leash. I think you can think of people in this scenario.

The reason there's a large number of these people who manage to "off" themselves when imprisoned, is because they realize that at that point, they're truly screwed.

The concept is fundamentally racist. The notion you can know or predict anything about me or my life experience based on my skin color should be rejected.

Here's one: the fact that I can go out for a run in my neighborhood without fear of being harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante.

generational wealth

The battery in one of our cars died a few weeks ago. My wife and I were both working from home, so we just lit it sit and used the other car. My wife took the car for the day and left me at home with no car. I mowed the lawn and did a bunch of work in our vegetable garden. I was wearing torn up jean, old sneakers and a race shirt from over ten years ago. I was covered in dirt from pulling weeds and planting new veggies for the summer. I needed a new watering wand and decided to just walk to the garden store (it is about a 10 min walk from my house). No one gave me a second look. If I was black and was similarly outfitted and dirty, a half dozen people would have called the cops, taken pictures of me and posted to nextdoor. I see it all the time.

Cardiologist wrote:

Academic Discussion wrote:

What are they?

For starters, the fact you can start threads like this is an example of white privilege.

Black people can't afford to use the Internet for such trivial things. They can only use the Internet by paying per minute on prepaid data plans.

Is this a joke? Any basis whatsoever to say this?

RBoston wrote:

The concept is fundamentally racist. The notion you can know or predict anything about me or my life experience based on my skin color should be rejected.

What are you talking about?? So it's racist to say blacks suffer discrimination is it?

another data point wrote:

Here's one: the fact that I can go out for a run in my neighborhood without fear of being harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante.

Do you have a statistical basis for that?

Academic Discussion wrote:

another data point wrote:

Here's one: the fact that I can go out for a run in my neighborhood without fear of being harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante.

Do you have a statistical basis for that?

It appears from his/her post as if he/she hasn't been harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante during a run in his/her neighborhood yet, so the statistical basis is that he or she is batting 1 for 1.

Casual Impartial Observer wrote:

Academic Discussion wrote:

Do you have a statistical basis for that?

It appears from his/her post as if he/she hasn't been harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante during a run in his/her neighborhood yet, so the statistical basis is that he or she is batting 1 for 1.

That's not a statistical basis. That's an anecdotal basis.

Academic Discussion wrote:

Casual Impartial Observer wrote:

It appears from his/her post as if he/she hasn't been harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante during a run in his/her neighborhood yet, so the statistical basis is that he or she is batting 1 for 1.

That's not a statistical basis. That's an anecdotal basis.

The local high school has several black distance runners and they are seen running on streets, trails, and in parks and don't appear to have any fear and I often see them with other teammates, many who are white, and they seem to be chatting and laughing while out running. Their team is also very successful and has even made it to Nike Nationals. Actually, I have never heard of any black distance runner ever being "harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante during a run in his/her neighborhood". Plenty of them running professionally so not sure what the issue is?

Not a problem in my hood wrote:

Academic Discussion wrote:

That's not a statistical basis. That's an anecdotal basis.

The local high school has several black distance runners and they are seen running on streets, trails, and in parks and don't appear to have any fear and I often see them with other teammates, many who are white, and they seem to be chatting and laughing while out running. Their team is also very successful and has even made it to Nike Nationals. Actually, I have never heard of any black distance runner ever being "harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante during a run in his/her neighborhood". Plenty of them running professionally so not sure what the issue is?

Odd because every single black teammate I had endured different experiences.

John Macardle wrote:

Not a problem in my hood wrote:

The local high school has several black distance runners and they are seen running on streets, trails, and in parks and don't appear to have any fear and I often see them with other teammates, many who are white, and they seem to be chatting and laughing while out running. Their team is also very successful and has even made it to Nike Nationals. Actually, I have never heard of any black distance runner ever being "harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante during a run in his/her neighborhood". Plenty of them running professionally so not sure what the issue is?

Odd because every single black teammate I had endured different experiences.

Give me the name of one of your teammates that was shot by the police while out running and which team was he on?

Trump can say and do whatever he likes and still became and remains president.

Fundamental Attribution Error: If a white person commits a crime, it's due to poverty. If they commit mass-murder, it's due to mental illness/bullying. If they post a racist tweet in which someone yells an extremist expression, they were probably just scrolling and didn't listen to the sound before retweeting a post to millions of followers around the world. Meanwhile, if a black person did any of these, they're seen as a black criminal, mass-murderer, and black supremacist; respectively.

Not a problem in my hood wrote:

John Macardle wrote:

Odd because every single black teammate I had endured different experiences.

Give me the name of one of your teammates that was shot by the police while out running and which team was he on?

Don't forget that the qualifier wasn't just being shot. It was "without fear of being harassed and/or shot by a police officer and/or vigilante." You can't just narrow the scope to fit a narrative.

How about... wrote:

Trump can say and do whatever he likes and still became and remains president.

Fundamental Attribution Error: If a white person commits a crime, it's due to poverty. If they commit mass-murder, it's due to mental illness/bullying. If they post a racist tweet in which someone yells an extremist expression, they were probably just scrolling and didn't listen to the sound before retweeting a post to millions of followers around the world. Meanwhile, if a black person did any of these, they're seen as a black criminal, mass-murderer, and black supremacist; respectively.

That sounds like a problem with your own bigotry. An easy counterexample is President Obama was far less qualified to be President than his opponents that he defeated.