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Re:Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support... by albntomat0 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:35PM (#23174622)
Factors that have helped me:

- Having well educated parents able to help me with my school and putting an large emphasis on its importance

- Having both parents in the house

- Having access to, and the ability to participate in extracurriculars in school

Those are all correlated with my race, but there are also white people who lack them. Those are the many factors I was talking about. They are specific and identifiable.

The useful parallel is that people do a poor job of identifying trends, when counter examples to the trend exist.

Re:Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support... by uoaei on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:03AM (#23175139)
> Those are all correlated with my race, but there are also white people who lack them.

No true Scotsman again. The counter examples do not negate the overwhelming influence of the causes to which the trend is attributed.

Re:Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support... by remarkEon on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:11AM (#23175187)
... but you created the same No True Scotsman in the inverse, up thread?

Your definition of "white privilege" assumes a complete homogeneity of experience that is absolutely not the case. Do you actually believe that all white people experience life in the exact way you described?

Re:Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support... by uoaei on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:19AM (#23175237)
#NotAllWhitePeople is not a very useful line of rhetoric if the goal is to solve the problem of equity in opportunity.

It is a given and openly acknowledged that not all white people have the same chances. But it doesn't seem particularly accurate to assert that a difference in equity is insignificant between folks who only differ in race because of some pre-existing intra-race variance.

Re:Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support... by remarkEon on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:41AM (#23175394)
And #AllWhitePeople is? If it's a "given" that "not all white people" have the same life experience, then why is it a useful line of rhetoric, in your case, to pretend that they do? I'm not following your last sentence. Is your claim that the intra-race variance of experience is sufficiently [edit: not] different to a degree that it's useful, rhetorically speaking, to pretend that one race's experience is homogeneous?
Re:Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support... by uoaei on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:22AM (#23176458)
The differences in equity within the cohort of white people is in general of a lower magnitude than differences in equity between white folk and black folk. That's the starkest and, in America at least, the most historically important comparison between races and thus the thing that usually ends up getting talked about most.

Not all white people, but a large majority of white people, have it better off than most minority folks, with some notable exceptions.