May 18, 2012 - 2:05 pm
Author Michael Z. Williamson, writer of the hugely successful “Freehold” universe and libertarian thinker extraordinaire, has some thoughts on the nature of discrimination and the constant drumbeat of Privileged Racist White Men™ holding back the poor oppressed minorities and po’ folks, ending with this wonderful rule:
WILLIAMSON’S SECOND LAW: Invocations of “White privilege” mean you’ve abandoned any logical argument for your position, concede your inferiority in the moral, intellectual and/or economic spectra, and expect that your superiors will fix your problem for you, while claiming to be equal.
Read the rest of it here.
Gosh, my parents were married before they had me, they went to school and graduated, and none of us dealt drugs. Guess I’m a beneficiary of “White privilege”.
Or is it, I’m a beneficiary of parents who didn’t screw up my life by doing things the Democrats encourage people to do?
Do you care about blacks? Encourage them not to have 80% of their kids out of wedlock.
In the ethnic melting pot that currently makes up the US population, just how many actual white males are left. Obama is ethnically 50% white, yet he is considered black. Elizabeth Warren is ethnically 97% white, yet she qualifies as a Cherokee native.
It just might be that the “white” communities have got their acts more squared away than the black or Latin American ones, taken at the means. Or at least, historically, by and large the acts were squared away. Nowadays various pathologies are present and possibly growing, meaning equality in fact may be at hand. Via the lowest common denominator level.
If you are a white male in today’s society, you will be passed over in favor of minority set asides. You will receive no special treatment from government agencies. You are not allowed to self-identify as an group without being called sexist or racist. You will be held to a certain level of behavior and excuses will not be accepted for failure. You will be blamed for any perceived wrongs ever committed throughout history.
In short, you are on your own.
Perhaps that very environment is the secret to success, as it cultivates a certain mindset and approach to addressing lifes obstacles and challenges?
Not saying all males of the caucasion persuasion rise to such a standard of behavior, but as an ethnic group enough do that the subculture that this particular ethnicity has developed over time is far more self-sufficient as a result, and members of that particular group tend to rise to positions of power as a result?