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

Not a problem in my hood wrote:

John Macardle wrote:

Smh....you can't make this stuff up.

But to what you are trying to get at....no one I've known to run for an appreciable number of years has escaped occasional harassment. However, the significance and frequency of those harassments were notably different for my black teammates.

How about in comparison to the good looking female distance runners? Which one received more harassment and feared running alone the most?

Sweet deflection after your contradiction. To answer your red herring, the good looking females had more frequent harassment and the black guys had more significant harassment.

party like it's 1859 wrote:

Blacks may certainly be at a disadvantage in the situations discussed thus far, but no one has illustrated any type of white privilege.

Yeah so the privilege of being white is your race isn't putting you at a disadvantage.

What else can you call the opposite of non-white disadvantage?

John Macardle wrote:

Not a problem in my hood wrote:

How about in comparison to the good looking female distance runners? Which one received more harassment and feared running alone the most?

Sweet deflection after your contradiction. To answer your red herring, the good looking females had more frequent harassment and the black guys had more significant harassment.

Not sure what you mean by deflection or red herring? How many of your black teammates were abducted or raped? What was the significant harassment that they faced? What school were you at?

Not a problem in my hood wrote:

John Macardle wrote:

Sweet deflection after your contradiction. To answer your red herring, the good looking females had more frequent harassment and the black guys had more significant harassment.

Not sure what you mean by deflection or red herring? How many of your black teammates were abducted or raped? What was the significant harassment that they faced? What school were you at?

You can't keep this on subject, can you?

Not a problem in my hood wrote:

Not sure what you mean

That much is evident.

To answer the question, I am not sure! This is a running website.

At first most great distance runners in the USA came from big inner city high schools but more recently the suburbs. It has been a shame to see all the city high schools struggle since the good ol days.

Wonder what changed?

appleswan. wrote:

What else can you call the opposite of non-white disadvantage?

Black disadvantage. Just like i said. Webster's defines privilege as "a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor." Nobody's granted me crap, and if they did, it would be based on my socioeconomic status rather than my skin color. So... Maybe I'm just not white? My skin is fairly brown all year long, and i live in Midwest flyover country.

party like it's 1859 wrote:

appleswan. wrote:

What else can you call the opposite of non-white disadvantage?

Black disadvantage. Just like i said. Webster's defines privilege as "a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor." Nobody's granted me crap, and if they did, it would be based on my socioeconomic status rather than my skin color. So... Maybe I'm just not white? My skin is fairly brown all year long, and i live in Midwest flyover country.

Since we’re using definitions, here is it for white privilege - “Inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice.“

If you’re white and never have been watched closely in a store or never have been treated unfairly by police then you have experienced white privilege.

Inheritance is essentially white privilege.

Money (or the equivalent) that one inherits is usually completely unearned. Inheritances also enormously favor white people.

Abbott muzzles Texans wrote:

Abbott muzzles Texans wrote:

A black presidential candidate with five kids from 3 baby mamas and a history of hosting beauty pageants would not have got the backing of the Christian Right wing and conservatives.

In addition to the above Obama would have never been acceptable with 25 sex assault allegations hanging over his head, yet it’s okay for Trump,

Same for the grab em by the pvssy talk.

Look, it all evens out. A white C student who did drugs wouldn't get into Harvard Law and I don't think a white inexperienced Senator would have gotten nominated President.

As a white, blonde female runner, I would argue young white women have been attacked/harassed/abducted more than our young black female peers. I would have to look at the data but I’m guessing it will back this up.

blonde runner wrote:

As a white, blonde female runner, I would argue young white women have been attacked/harassed/abducted more than our young black female peers. I would have to look at the data but I’m guessing it will back this up.

You're guessing??? Oh yeah, that's a pretty convincing argument.

As this thread yet again demonstrates, one of the pervasive characteristics of many white Americans is to have no idea what it is like to be black in America. I guess that goes hand in hand with privilege.

That is illogical because it also proves that blacks have privilege.

Reminds me of a black Professor that moved into a formerly white area in Cape Town after dismantling of Apartheid.

Working in his garden one day, a passer by assumed he was a gardener and wanted to hire him.

Would that have happened to a white resident?

Academic Discussion wrote:

Any real examples? Not hand-wavy mumbo jumbo like "implicit bias."

Let's keep this thread civil, no insults.

It doesn't matter what examples people give because you'll just deny them. Because the point you want to make is that white privilege doesn't exist. And then it follows that the reason why black people are disadvantaged in so many areas is not that they lack privilege, but because by nature they are mentally deficient, lazy, and prone to violence and sexual depravity. Right?

If that's not the point you are ultimately ntrying to make then what is it?

Of course you are not making any other argument than the basic racist argument, and you have the privilege to do that because you grew up in a society where we were taught that all significant human progress (math, science, philosophy, art) for the last 2000 years was made by white men.

A running while black harrassment incident happened a block from my house last week:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2020/06/27/he-went-for-a-run-in-anchorage-a-woman-stopped-to-ask-if-he-belonged-in-the-neighborhood/