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You are an immigrant yourself, I wonder what you have done to fit into the aboriginal culture ?
White Privilege
Essentially it's the claim that being White affords one access to universal, institutional or systemic advantages, used by anti-Whites (who use the code-word "anti-racist" to disguise their intentions) to justify overt racial discrimination against Whites, in the hopes of equalizing social and economic outcomes between races, whose disparities are better explained by hereditary differences in intelligence and temperament.
You cannot measure it, and it has no specific concrete definition to provide a basis for proof of its existence, it has not, and can never be proven to exist, but if you question it you're called "ignorant" (in reality you are a skeptic), and the fact that you questioned it in the first place is used as further proof that you have "White privilege".
Dear Australian members, not being racist means tolerating others who are of a different race, many of you seem to have trouble with this concept.
You are an immigrant yourself
Originally posted by Nuker
reply to post by QQXXw
You are an immigrant yourself
Hmm.. As a 5th Generation Australian..
Let's use an example, I'll name my character 'Bob' and I'll place him in Denmark.. Bob is well alive in 2012, and lives in Denmark. Bob's ancestors migrated to the land around 400 odd years ago.. According to what you said, Bob is an immigrant.edit on 23-4-2012 by Nuker because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Dark Ghost
reply to post by QQXXw
White Privilege
Essentially it's the claim that being White affords one access to universal, institutional or systemic advantages, used by anti-Whites (who use the code-word "anti-racist" to disguise their intentions) to justify overt racial discrimination against Whites, in the hopes of equalizing social and economic outcomes between races, whose disparities are better explained by hereditary differences in intelligence and temperament.
You cannot measure it, and it has no specific concrete definition to provide a basis for proof of its existence, it has not, and can never be proven to exist, but if you question it you're called "ignorant" (in reality you are a skeptic), and the fact that you questioned it in the first place is used as further proof that you have "White privilege".
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Are black people in Africa gifted with black privilege? Are Asian people in Asia gifted with Asian privilege?
White privilege is a bogus concept that has no basis in reality.edit on 23/4/2012 by Dark Ghost because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by QQXXw
Excellent - well done!
Now to answer your question about white privilege in Africa try goggling South Africa but this time try a bit harder and you might find sources which are not from the urban dictionary.
if Bob then started complaining about legal immigration, it would make Bob into a total hypocrite
Why should we repeat their mistake, and end up like them? Because collective guilt or some kind of twisted karma concept? I dont believe in collective guilt. You learn from mistakes of others, or you are doomed to repeat them. If western people wont learn from the mistakes of native americans and aboriginals, they will share the same fate.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are a drain on Britain and its economy, not a benefit, says a Left-leaning think tank.
Migrants from many developing nations fail to pay their way, while those from wealthy countries, such as the United States and Australia, provide a boost for the economy.
It found that fewer than half of Britain's 650,000 Somalis, Bangladeshis, Turks and Pakistanis, have jobs and the four communities have the highest levels of benefit dependency.
The Telegraph
The report concludes:
- There is little or no economic benefit to Britain from the present high level of immigration. The immigrants are not needed to fill labour shortages or help fund the state pension for retiring Britons.
- Certain groups, including the low-paid, some ethnic minorities and young people seeking to get on the jobs ladder may suffer because of competition from immigrants.
- Immigrants have an "important economic impact" on public services with some schools struggling to cope with the rapidly-rising number of children who do not speak English as a first language.
It said the economic effect should be measured against the (positive) impact on the living standards of the existing population - which, it said, was negligible.
The report says immigration has reached a scale "unprecedented in our history".
The Confederation of British Industry criticised the report and said that businesses needed the flexibility to recruit immigrants who formed a valuable part of the workforce.
The Telegraph
House of Lords Report: Economic Impact of Immigration