Quote:
Originally posted by rho4life
When I hear "reverse discrimination", I hear the whines of spoiled white kids who for the first time in their lives didn't get what they wanted. Get over it. 
|
I always heard the cry of "reverse discrimination" at the mouths of mediocre white males; never from anyone who was very succesful in their fields, and in turned blamed it on affirmative action. It used to be that if you were just an white male of average intelligence/social standing/income, that you were set for life. Due to the women's and civil rights movements, that's not so true anymore. It just so happens that white males today have to prove themselves just as much as women and persons of color did in the past and still have to.
To answer the original question, I think there is white privilege AS WELL AS white skin privilege (in some ways, I have benefitted from that myself). There is a whole exercise, "Unpacking the knapsack of white privilege," that addresses the issue. I had to do it plenty of times during undergrad, I'm sure some people here have heard of it.
Threaded Mode