How to own up to white privilege

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My high school was predominantly white, as was my teenage circle of friends. Within this context, the term white privilege had no meaning; economic class was the most common social difference I noticed…
 
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Edit: Just to be clear, I’m not saying we shouldn’t have threads like this.
 
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Seems more like open dialogue on the suggested topic. That would probably be the most productive way to participate in this thread.
 
I’d say if you’re white, listen. Be an ally. Read ‘biased’ by Jennifer eberhardt especially if you’re in the USA
 
Personally I believe that white privilege, when understood carefully, does exist but I have yet to hear a solution other than guilt, which is really no solution at all. I also do not think it is wise to hold guilty those who by no choice of their own, have inherited the privilege. It doesn’t make common sense. I’d be interested in hearing better solutions than attempts to guilt trip but that’s me personally. I also think that this movement does have a tendency to become the highest priority over and above the Gospel for some people and that is not okay.
 
It’s not supposed to be a guilt trip. Just a call to arms to stand up for the marginalised. So the better solution is to be the ally. Accept that there is white privilege. Get to know people who look different to you. Speak out for those who are at a disadvantage by way of their colour and who are stopped and in danger from the police
 
I really can understand that. It’s just that the scholarship I’ve been exposed to (white fragility) wants to say that every white person is racist regardless of an active participation in racism. I think the scholarship needs to be refined to speak to those who are allies.
 
If you’re white , you’ve won the social lottery. I am white and I have learned this from listening to people of colour. Chris Rock in one of his routines said (I’m paraphrasing) ‘ you wouldn’t trade places with me … and I’m rich!’
 
So as white Catholics we need to be that universal church fighting that corner for our marginalised family members. I don’t mean to offend anyone
 
If I extrapolate from what I know about male privelege, I’d say a few things:
a) not everyone from an advantaged group who succeeds does so solely because of his advantage.
b) not everyone from a disadvantaged group is held back primarily due to lacking privilege.
c) no privileged group extends their privileges to everyone in their group. Someone is always left out, and those someones get understandably peeved when they’re told how “privileged” they are.
d) most of the offenses of those in a position of privilege are a matter of being oblivious to those being excluded. Some know they’re privileged and wrongly think they “deserve” their privilege, but most just don’t even realize that not everyone has the same access to opportunity they have.

What’s the answer? I think it is learning to recognize opportunities and subtle means of exclusion and looking around and making the effort to include everyone who deserves access to the opportunity.

When we’re talking about parents trying to give their children opportunities and advantages, that is a tall order. It is easier for parents with both boys and girls and harder for parents who see their children as being in competition for opportunities with other people’s children. They don’t care so much about color or gender as they do getting their children on top of the heap.
 
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I would if I could but it is so obvious what is happening here. I need no middlemen, organized as a tribe around certain issues, to tell me I should be guilty and so on.
 
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One aspect: “You need us to tell you what to feel guilty about.” No I don’t.
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If there is anything that is a bad way to improve society, it is trying to teach people to feel ashamed of themselves rather than pointing out they have an opportunity to accomplish something good.
 
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Emotions have become the bargaining chips for some. It defines their credibiltiy.
 
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Read “Slaughter of Cities” by E Michael Jones

“White” is false social construct. Jones discusses how he grew up in Irish Catholic neighborhood in Philadelphia and Italian Catholic neighborhood was 2 streets over, and English Protestant neighborhood 2 more streets over. Those are the true ethnicities. Then he talks about how cities were transformed in 60s by urban development so Catholics were uprooted to suburbs where they were no longer “Catholic” but instead “White”, and how that’s a way to generalize all Christians as racist. Also it’s pure false, as example hundreds thousands Irish Catholics were enslaved in America’s
 
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Emotions have become the bargaining chips for some. It defines their credabilty.
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A great many people base their entire conscience on their emotional conscience. They were brought up to know right from wrong by keeping track of what made them feel bad about themselves and what made them feel good about themselves. “How would you like that if someone did that to you?” is not exactly the Golden Rule. Close in a way, but no cigar.
 
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that as a white person it’s easier for me than for a catholic woman of colour in my society. I don’t know what it’s like to have to watch my back because of how I look and have people fear me
 
No one was uprooted. I was there. People moved from high crime areas to lower crime areas, that’s all. Meanwhile, Western society was buried under Marxist/Anarchist nonsense designed to destroy families and any sense of community.
 
“people fear me”? I’ll have to bring that up to my black friends.
 
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