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originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: introvert
LMAO! Hard work leading to success equals "white privilege" yeah, no, whatever... I'm stating a simple statistical fact... one can look at it in two ways. A phantom "white privilege" argument which is purely based in coddling Kept Voters and keeping their gravy train going via socially embraced excuses abdicating them of responsibility for their personal failures and shortcomings... OR it can be viewed as a screwball system in which the people putting the most effort and money into the system, the providers, are also blamed for all of the country's woes.
If being blamed for everything is a privilege... well, perhaps we should redefine the word because there's no privilege in that bullcrap.
All due respect, but I think that went well over your head and you only added more fuel to that fire. You are giving more credence to those that push the "white privilege" narrative by calling them screw-ups, without any consideration of past grievances against certain demographics.
originally posted by: Bone75
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
If you really want my fellow white males and I, allies or not, to experience systemic opression, you would have to inflict the same opressors on us.
Flood white neighborhoods with police officers, and have them pull people over and stop them for no reason and look for criminal activity.
Prosecute us to the fullest extent.
Have our resumes passed over when the recruiters see white names.
Carry preconceived notions that are negative about our work ethic and morality.
etc.
This are the ypes of things the white man must endure to better understand. Not stripping our right to vote.
Will you be the first in line to get hung from a tree?
banning white men from voting temporarily will help them understand systemic injustice and help them become better, more empathetic allies to the social justice cause.
... White men who want to become better allies always come across the problem of “I will never understand what it feels like to be systemically oppressed” but this proposal may further their understanding of minority needs and improve relations between different genders and races, which is the ultimate goal; equality.
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
I will go ahead and say I am a self described SJW..
However this solution doesn't even really mimic the same type of systemic oppression faced by POC today. Therefore this would not be a very fulfilling initiative.
If you really want my fellow white males and I, allies or not, to experience systemic opression, you would have to inflict the same opressors on us.
Flood white neighborhoods with police officers, and have them pull people over and stop them for no reason and look for criminal activity.
Prosecute us to the fullest extent.
Have our resumes passed over when the recruiters see white names.
Carry preconceived notions that are negative about our work ethic and morality.
etc.
This are the ypes of things the white man must endure to better understand. Not stripping our right to vote.
That sends the wrong message, because POC have the right to vote, and they need to recognize that, and vote more!