You do realize privilege (social inequality what you are referring to) and white privilege are two entirely different things right? Also, Im not sure if you know how a debate works, but usually someone who is in arguing a position makes substantive or compelling argument or response and not tell someone to look it up. If you think social inequality exists, then you are supposed to state the inequalities. Also if you have been paying attention to anything that anyone has been debating in this thread so far you would know that most people realize White Privilege is biased, in and of itself. That is like saying Oh that is some stuck-up white person. I dont like those stuck-up white people. I cant stand to be around those whites who think they are better than everyone else. Who do they think they are with all those privileges and stuff?
The wiki link you posted is full of statements with no citations as well. Not a very good source or reference for anyone that needs to know what it is. Not that I do or anything. The actual white privilege wiki is really more of a critical analysis, and even states how biased a lot of those positions are. So I can see how it may be challenging to make a compelling argument for it.
You could have possibly linked some stuff on Mrs. Obamas speech she recently had about race. This issue is so sensitive, its so complicated, so bound up with a painful history, Obama told soon-to-be graduating high school seniors in Topeka, Kansasthe city that was at the center of the Supreme Courts decision. No matter what you do, the point is to never be afraid to talk about these issues, particularly the issue of race, because even today, we still struggle to do that.
We need all of you to ask the hard questions and have the honest conversations because that is the only way we will heal the wounds of the past and move forward to a better future, Obama said, who prior to her speech visited the Brown vs. Board of Ed National Historic Site.
Read more:
Michelle Obama: Talk about race - Lucy McCalmont - POLITICO.com
Having a debate or conversation on White Privilege is not an honest conversation for starters.
Or you could have linked some information on the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and how more needs to be done with educational institutions to provide children, regardless of race, with a better education. Which I think is obvious and most people on this forum would agree with. But Rights and Privileges are two entirely different things, as noted on the handy-dandy wiki page.
Privileges vs. rights (
White privilege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The notion of white privilege raises the question of the difference between rights and privileges.
Lewis Gordon rejects the idea of white privilege, arguing that the privileges from which whites as a group are supposed to benefit are, in fact, social goods to which all people aspire. As such, he writes, they are not privileges:
"A privilege is something that not everyone needs, but a right is the opposite. Given this distinction, an insidious dimension of the white-privilege argument emerges. It requires condemning whites for possessing, in the concrete, features of contemporary life that should be available to all, and if this is correct, how can whites be expected to give up such things? Yes, there is the case of the reality of whites being the majority population in all the sites of actual privilege from prestigious universities to golf clubs and boards of directors for most high-powered corporations. But even among whites as a group, how many whites have those opportunities?"[29]
Viewing whites as universally privileged constructs "a reality that has nothing to do with [the] lived experience" of the majority of whites, who themselves do not have access to elite institutions.
[29] Their "daily, means-to-means subsistence" is a right, of which it makes no sense to feel guilty.
[29] Naomi Zack similarly criticizes the term
white privilege as a misunderstanding of the difference between privileges and rights. Discrimination against nonwhites does not create a privilege in the normal sense of the term, a "specifically granted absolute advantage," a "prerogative or exception granted to an individual or special group."
[30] In the United States, Zack writes, discussion of "white privilege" distracts from the discussion of social exclusion of nonwhites, which is the origin of racial disparities.
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