You should have to wear two.
The absurd pointing fingers at the absurd. Most people don't give a shit.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
Ugh. Privilege has fuck all to do with guilt. It's about understanding the opportunities that are available to you because of your privilege. I conducted a privilege study last year with a fellow student who is Native.
Scenarios like being short for a restaurant tab and trying to buy quarters from a cashier at a drug store for laundry. Believe me, I was treated much differently because I'm white.
I don't have white guilt but I sure as hell am aware of my privilege!
"Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013
Ugghhh, some more Alex Jones/Infowars BS.
How is it BS, because you said so ??
What privilege?
All I can say with confidence that I've been a member of the most discriminated demographic in the last 25 years... white males. When do we get a break from paying for past sins of the jackasses that came before us..?
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_race-ethnicity/
Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards/
Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
The five racial/ethnic categories as defined by federal regulations are:
American Indian or Alaskan Native - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.
Black or African American - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. Terms such as “Haitian” or “Negro” can be used in addition to “Black or African American.”
Asian - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, India, or the Pacific Islands.
White - A person having origins in Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.
Hispanic or Latino (All races) - A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
Find your label.
Gordon Murray
So, Negro is cool ??
Hmmm...
That's bullshit...
Hey!! Don't go telling me about oppressed... I'm a recovering Californian living in the deep south... They don't exactly like us down here!!
On a more serious note... rather than assume I know what y'all are referring to... What exactly is this "privilege" you are referring to and please provide a simple real world example??
"The point is, privilege is as much a psychological matter as a material one. Whites have the luxury of not having to worry that our race is going to mark us negatively when looking for work, going to school, shopping, looking for a place to live, or driving for that matter: things that folks of color can't take for granted."
http://redroom.com/member/tim-wise/b...and-the-haters
That's a bunch of nonsense...
Minority women have the upper hand in this country...
Oh yeah white Jews had it great.
Racism is kept alive because Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be out of a gig if it disappeared. It will never go away even if the mass majority of people let it go because it's a handy divide and conquer political tool. As long as there are politicians and special interest con men, prejudice will be alive and well.
That's called old money and it's been well entrenched and politically connected for a long time. If you look at the new money it's more diverse. The old money is entrenched because they own both political parties and hide their money in foundations. Actually they stir up most the racial stuff to take the attention off of themselves.
It's true. What would those guys do if we all held hands and sang kum by ya? They would freak. I have learned problems are kept and even created because there are some people making good livings off of the problems. Don't think for a moment everyone wants these problems to go away.
It's like religion. The last thing a religion wants is a perfect world and everyone happy. They feed off of misery and fear. If Jesus showed up again it would be the church that would run him off. Who shouted crucify him? The religious leadership. That part of the bible is true. The religious fucks who put it together knew themselves quite well.
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Casinos, Hell.....
Now they're getting into the loan shark business too.....
http://www.westernsky.com/
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
Aye, 521% interest in many cases. They play the "loan" commercials here all the time. Big sky or western sky loans I think. It has this beautiful Indian chick with a huge mouth full of teeth. I can see her now, smiling..."call us, problem solved".
And dam you for that link. Yes, I clicked it and now my gmail will be flooded with ads for payday loans
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LOL I've talked about one of my (distant) friends here who is/was a part time "college" professor and full time pub philosopher. He actually called them about a loan, and it was like Joe Pesci's character from Goodfellas was breathing down his neck practically. He said the interest rate was not only high, but you had to pay huge fees to get a loan. I think one of the fees was called "Asshole-Money."
Some of it. What the old money does is blame the new money for their shenanigans and the people who had nothing to do with it get the heat. It's always the guy getting a paycheck that gets hit when there is a taxation crusade against the rich.
Ah the tide is going to turn. Bernanke has bought time but the economy is not going to recover until the stockholders take the pain for their bad banking investments and those stockholders are the 1%. The rich have to pay more and the rest of us have to spend less. It's mathematical. You only can paper over it so long.
They probably break an arm if you are late on a payment. They really should make finance 101 a required course. Everyone needs to understand amortization. I was in the loan business and I tried to help a friend get a loan where the future value would be less and he accused me of trying to rip him off because the monthly payments were more. To most people it's how much a month? They have no clue.
If you really questioned whether people are stupid, work in the finance industry, it will remove all doubt.
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Not if you're using the right browser with the proper safeguards it won't.
Firefox w/ AdBlock Plus & NoScript is the best way. If you prefer the Chromium style browser, just don't use Google's spyware-loaded version. Comodo Dragon or SWare Iron are much better alternatives.
And even if you insist on using the MS piece of shit browser, you can still install DoNotTrackMe (which also works on the others)
And it goes without saying that your browser should never accept third party cookies. Any site that claims they "require" such a thing is probably trying to rip you off by one means or another.
And the two sites you want to keep off your computer entirely are Google Analytics and Doubleclick.net. The former has some legitimate purposes, but it still can be used to target you. The latter has no other purpose except to facilitate advertising spam.
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