Just out of curiosity, do you have the impression that I am made personally uncomfortable by the term? Or are you speaking to the larger suggestion th...
It is not. It is highly descriptive. Steve is a name. If you stop calling it white privilege and call it Steve, that would remediate a lot of my objec...
I do. No, it reflects that the concept of race and attitudes or beliefs about specific racial groups are woven into the fabric of our culture and its ...
"Only one person or group of people" - the syntax of this indicates a group of relatively limited size and uses the examples of wealth or position as ...
Define God as you're using the term. I can tell you this much - regardless of your god-definition, god predates notions of a "just god" by centuries i...
But I've repeatedly said I don't want to talk about white privilege. I've raised the same point that you have, which is that it serves to reinforce ra...
It seemed liked you almost agreed with me in a way here, but don't worry, I won't tell anyone. :D I know that this notion of white privilege will cont...
Hey, I appreciate the more even tone of this message. We certainly have points of difference that might be explored, but I'm feeling a little punched ...
Ok, I understand what you are saying. I believe that the effect you are describing is real. Please keep that in mind - I am not saying that the effect...
In strict logical terms, however, this is a fallacy - appeal to emotion (pity). I would also note that this type of argument is explicitly forbidden i...
Thank you for your response. I acknowledge that we are working with a very small sample size of real information. Of the things you have presented fro...
1. I'm not able to see how anything you said here relates to the quoted text. Were you just using that as a convenient way to direct this message at m...
Is this what you were directing me to? I found it on page 7 for anyone interested. It is part of a much longer post, so I don't want to fail to includ...
Noted. I am doing so. My intent was never to mischaracterize your position. I have no interest in attacking straw men. To the extent it appeared I was...
This is exactly what I've been trying to communicate. Like, exactly. However @"Isaac", reading between the lines gives me an impression that you don't...
Very well put. I think we've all had our say, and we'll just have to agree to disagree. In the end we are reaching for the same conclusion, just discr...
I'm trying to start over in the relevant strain of this conversation... I agree with most of what you're saying, just not with the unfortunate name yo...
I understand that this is common, but that doesn't make it correct. It was once common to use the word "Negro", but that would hardly be seen as corre...
I reread the thread. Banno and Streetlight have acted like assholes, and on top of it, they've added nothing of use to the conversation. I'm new here,...
You don't seem to realize this, but you are terrible at philosophy. Like, horrible. I lack argument? Your longest post is 7 sentences. You have not ar...
What this should have said: "Interesting. In the face of these facts, it seems my position is not as strong as I thought it was. Perhaps I should cons...
It does not have purchase. I reject it completely and I am sympathetic to its goals. If by purchase, you mean it galvanizes the message of those on th...
Again, you just skip the parts you don't like, don't you? He literally said "What white people don't like is..." in a conversation about racism. That ...
Thank you for providing some authoritative input here. This subject is not really my area, in this case I'm more concerned with the bastardization of ...
So you're admitting that the term does not accurately describe what it says it does. You are asserting that its non-descriptiveness, its falsehood is ...
You can feel what I'm feeling. Irritation, maybe annoyance that you are dodging people's responses instead of confronting them. I can feel what you're...
Ok, i want you to blank out your mind and let go of your determination to defend your original idea. Done that? Good. Now, in order in this paragraph,...
Wow. It took me several minutes to swallow all the words you're trying to put in my mouth. Please don't think for a minute that you have any idea what...
With the possible exception of the last one, I don't think "science" has much to add to any of those conversations. All the science we have on climate...
Lol. i think the issue here is that YOU don't seem to understand what you're saying. Words have meanings. You can't just make them whatever you want. ...
Totally agree. "Privilege" is an exceptional advantage possessed by only a few. Being born into great wealth creates privilege. Having the power to in...
In this case is absolutely is, because the so-called "privilege" is not privilege at all. Are human rights Rights, or are they human Privileges? Becau...
Ok, a few things. First, I'm quite confident that about this subject we have way more in common than not. What I see this disagreement to be about is ...
I completely understand what you're saying. I swear. Let me see if I can reframe this so we can get somewhere. I say that BLM is the way to go. It hig...
Sorry, something got crossed up there. I absolutely do not want to see complexity reduced. I don't think I agree with your notion of a "higher purpose...
X -> S S is undesirable. X has no benefits. Not X is more desirable than X Yep, that's valid. You may want to argue over the degree of truth for premi...
I see the problem quite clearly. I've expressed it repeatedly in a lot of detail. You have chosen to ignore it. What else can I do? You think that usi...
It is an exact statement of the actual meaning of the concept of white privilege. That is what is has to do with it. You've literally just agreed that...
So if I edit the word analogy to be the word example, will you address the whole remainder of my post? And no. By denying your "example" I've held out...
Scripture is clear that God did not get "reworked" in the period between testaments. Malachi 3:6, NASB: "'For I, the LORD, do not change;..." God is c...
Because the complexity demands it. Complexity begets complexity. Random noise does not perpetuate itself. If you want to describe this as the "logic o...
Morality arises out of human consciousness as means to try to organize our increasingly complex systems of interaction. It is agreement reality, but p...
Which is it? This is the heart of my criticism. I trust you know the adages about serving two masters or chasing two rabbits? For my part, I think the...
Most Western conceptions of justice invoke ideas such as fairness, equality (of opportunity if not outcome), people getting their due, etc. In modern ...
I see you are the type to avoid taking responsibility for the tone or the content of your words (although there is precious little content thus far). ...
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