What it "White Privilege"? Is it also a form of discrimination?
81864
It is an illusion.  You may recast it as "monetary privelege."  Any color person can have money, and the people in the super-rich class have privelege.  They get hooked in with all the people with money from childhood on.  Therefore they will go to the best schools (or have it available) and hob-knob with all the richie people who run corporate america.  When a person from the elite needs a loan, or needs a business partnership, they all help out their own.  I feel it is difficult to break into that super-elite class, but anyone can.  I may not know how, but it is possible, and it is not limited to white people.  Maybe in 1932 that was true, but not now.
978839
It's called a 'double standard'. White Americans have the strength, stamina, backbone, intelligence and determination to build a country out of wilderness. I, personally, consider the source. It seems to come from people who still can't find anything in their own heritage to be proud of, so they bash us and ours. They try to bring us down to their level. I don't let it bother me. They show their racism every time they spout such bigotry. Let it roll off and remain above it.
402413
Total nonsense! If someone said "Once you go white..." they would rightly be called a racist. It's amazing how these double standards prevail though! Go any damn color you want and go somewhere else if it's not satisfying. It's as simple as that!
1157364
As a white caucasian male, I have no right to consider the question of race. I do not consider race to be of importance and will not admit otherwise even under threat of torture...
85126
You don't seem racist, just intellectually curious. There's nothing wrong with that. Hopefully this will help with some of your questions. \n\nRacism is a product of institutional ownership. In other words, whites dominate in the most important areas of society. For example, the Federal Reserve Bank controls interest rates, the chairman is always been white. Our highest political offices in this country have typically been held by whites and the white cultural majority dominates mainstream television and other forms of media. Blacks and other minorities have gained considerable influence, but it's just one minority here or there. \n\nWhites have no reason to celebrate racial pride because they wrote the history books. There have been a lot great things contributed to this country by minorities, but we only talk about them for 28 days a year. An African-American would have to take a class specifically designed to educate them about there culture in order to learn about themselves. Whites have only to go to school. Ask a Native American if Christopher Columbus discovered America. They would probably tell you it was never lost. Only from the white, European perspective was this country a discovery. \n\nAs for affirmative action and similar innitatives I'd offer an analogy. I'll challenge you to a mile run. Now here are the conditions:  I get a three quarter-mile head start. With that kind of advantage do you even have a chance to win? Would you even want to race? I doubt it. I do agree that minorities have closed the gap in alot of ways. Maybe affirmative action is less needed at the present time. \n\nI can't refer back to what you've wrote, so I don't remember all of your points. I hope this little bit helps.
144489
I am white and I would never use that word. Among our friends, I can't think of anyone who uses that word so please do not classify all whites in the same category, okay? Oh to answer your question. NO, it is not OKAY!
442013
I believe this happens all the time and I also think it is racism all the same.  Just because the discrimination from another culture is being executed towards a caucasion person doesn't make it reverse discriimination..it is racism.  \n\nThe ignorance in our society is so much in abundance that it pits one culture against another through the lack of morals and judgments one makes.  I have been called every name in the book except for a white woman and I am a white woman with a german heritage.  It doesn't make me any better than another and I take this into consideration no matter what the color of anothers skin or racial upbringing.
733642
Anything that perpetuates the demand from our society for all white males to feel guilty for something they had no part in is  wrong. I haven't been discriminatory towards anyone, unless they are just plain ignorant, and I should be discriminated against by anyone either.\n\nAffirmative action was needed up to about fifteen years ago, but it is time for either a phase out plan or complete stoppage.
944248
Well that has to do with a combination of history, human nature and pure and simple discrimination.\n\nLet's examine those one at a time:\n1. History - the USA was created by white men therefore white men gained power and control from the beginning. It is always difficult for another race to gain power when one race has complete control. Btw, this also applies to gender.\n2. Human nature - when any one race gets into power, it is human nature to want to keep power within that one race.\n3. Discrimination - there have actually been a few studies on this that were used to justify Affirmative Action. It is not that white males intentionally discriminate. The studies illustrated that when a certain type of person, say a white male, is conducting a job interview, that ppl tend to like ppl the most like themselves. I'm saying that a white male that say has a wife and kids is more likely to hire a white male of the same situation not because he intentionally discriminates but that is human nature also.\n\nBtw #3 applies to all races and gender.
669535
u are very correct and unfortunatly the way our new age political correct laws go whites are discriminatd against to a point. i mean there is st. patties day. but there is no white history month. a month to show what whites have had a possitive impact on the world. every race should have a right to celebrate the people of their race who have had a possitive impact on the world from all walks of life. i am muslim and i am white. is there a time when i can celebrate being a muslim with out being called a terrorist. or a traitor to the arien race. definatly not here in america. america needs government reform. we need to unify. this is a must if we hope to become more productive and quit crying over what happened way back when. education makes a big difference. as a white person i am  not prod of slavory how ever it was the white man who enslaved them and it was white men who died setting them free this counts for nothing these days.
915289
No. Im proud to White too. Haha but dont say that too loud, you might be called a racist.
925874
I don't know, but I have the same problem.  I think it might have something to do with the superiority complex many white people seem to have, even if they don't realize they do.  Not challenging makes you normal, challenging makes you "too sensitive" since the discrimination of others based on religion, color, gender, sexuality etc is "not your fight."  That's what it seems like to me anyway.  One thing I know for sure though is that no matter how many people tell me to "stop being so sensitive" I will keep on advocating for rights for all.  I hope you do too!
505347
It's about being raised as a privileged white boy.  No, I don't know any sites that could help you.
1064154
White is hard to define as there are  so many different races that make up "white"  Race it's self is man made idea from the victorian times as they catigorized all the animals and humans into groups.\n\nI also don't agree with being held responsible for the crimes of other 200 years a go either.
856918
Someone was asking about White supremicists and I replied "enough already about the White Supremacy" and got a violation.\nIt's Q&A so much for your opinion, apparently it was because i didnt answer the question. Who cares, it was my opinion. And halft the answers to questions on here dodge the question itself..\nIt's Bullshit sometimes
202543
There is a such thing as "race". It is a way to identify yourself, so you can be categorize for no necessary reason.  You can be White (race) and be Russian, Swedish, Polish, Jewish (ethnicity), but your race is still White. Just like you be can Black, and be Haitian, African, Jamaican.  Affirmative action intentions in the beginning were not the same as it is used today.  Is it still necessary? YES!!! because jobs are not available to everyone equally, despite experience. It's not just a way to help Blacks or Hispanics, it helps women too. However, it has its faults and setbacks, and should be improved upon.
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It's pretentious, I agree. But they do have a point. The idea of a white history month, use of the N word by white people, WET...all would probably be met with a lot of opposition and decried as racist. And there are probably quite a few places where a white person would be severely harmed or killed for using the N word. Granting special privileges to any given group is counterprodutive, in terms of equality. Not that I have anything against black history month or BET.