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Abstraction · 61-69, M
1. Your mind won't be changed. You'll continue to pass through life affirming what you already think about certain things, because for some reason (below your conscious reflection) you need to.
2. So here's empirical evidence.
https://www.theroot.com/yes-you-can-measure-white-privilege-1794303451
3. Immediately you will set about to try to discredit it. Why? (refer #1)
2. So here's empirical evidence.
https://www.theroot.com/yes-you-can-measure-white-privilege-1794303451
3. Immediately you will set about to try to discredit it. Why? (refer #1)
JohnTaylor · 22-25, M
@Abstraction You are right my mind probably won't be changed. If you'd like to have a debate I'd be more than happy.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@JohnTaylor I did debate. I put up facts to show that white privilege is entrenched in American society - whatever your opinion (which is affected by confirmation bias - the tendency to only see what confirms what you already believe.) For example [u]Education[/u]: If you are not white, you have less chance of access to good education, good teachers, good schools that deliver results. [u]Employment[/u]: whites with the EXACT same resumes as blacks are employed at DOUBLE the rate. (So your opinion that this doesn't happen is worthless and meaningless - these statistics are based on controlled studies by universities or research centres.) This is true at every level of education. Blacks with the same jobs as whites have lower income. etc.
White privilege is firstly, therefore, a head start.
Interestingly so is the 'blame the poor' mentality entrenched in the US. If the poor are poor, apparently it's their fault (- as a Christian I find that mentality disgusting, not at all how Jesus talked about or responded to the poor.) The American dream is social mobility - the ability to be born poor and make it rich. Did you know that now, in the western world, US has very LOW social mobility. If you are born poor, you have very little chance of making it. It's much, much easier in countries like New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden (not UK though...)
White privilege is firstly, therefore, a head start.
Interestingly so is the 'blame the poor' mentality entrenched in the US. If the poor are poor, apparently it's their fault (- as a Christian I find that mentality disgusting, not at all how Jesus talked about or responded to the poor.) The American dream is social mobility - the ability to be born poor and make it rich. Did you know that now, in the western world, US has very LOW social mobility. If you are born poor, you have very little chance of making it. It's much, much easier in countries like New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden (not UK though...)