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Liberal academia is replacing black privilege with foreigner privilege. Tens of thousands of Americans are now denied access to the top US Universities who have a preference for foreign students - such as 12,000 Iranians who have attended M.I.T. - which over 90% of American applicants are denied. Of those 12,000 Iranians, 7,000 M.I.T. educated Iranians have returned to Iran to build Iran's intercontinental ballistic missiles, WMDs and to have the skills to hack our computers.

Much of adversarial countries' technology, spy and warfare capabilities were taught in the USA - Americans denied attendance in deference to them.

 

Same here, as long as it's not to expensive I sign up!

 

Stop and think about what our stories mean in terms of "white privilege." Privilege belongs to whoever has superior power in relation to how power is relevant. It is a quite individual thing, not a grand society thing.

 

Here's a good example of white privilege right here. I wore saggy pants almost everyday in middle school, so did a bunch of other kids. I am white, so were the other kids. I have also never heard anyone associate white people with saggy pants.

Now I'm not trying to diminish your stories. I'm sure there all true. However, they are self defeating to your point. If black people do that to you, imagine what it's like to have six/seven times as many white people around them at all times.

 

So why is Jackie Robinson still celebrated as the first black baseball player (even though it was Moses Walker) when no blacks ever played baseball before him?

 

cd8ed disagrees.

 

Like your black privilege?

 

You must have been a teen in the 90's like me. Everyone sagged, and everyone knows we got that from blacks. I was always told to pull my britches up though, never associated with being black. That didn't start until the 21st century.

 

I am not talking about children wearing saggy pants, I am talking about adults.
Both white hispanic and black variations are perceived to be trouble. This has nothing to do with skin color and instead is about action and demeanor.

I have never said racism doesn't exist, it is unfortunate but expected and is not a one way street.
White privilege is a racist statement, socioeconomic status privilege would be more accurate and less polarizing term but it wouldn't let people that feel disadvantaged have a new means to be controlled.

 

30 years ago, I was working for American Airlines and a job came open as a ticket agent at an East Coast airport. I wanted to apply, but I was 6'2" and 185 pounds. They told me I was 10 pounds overweight. I didn't even get an interview. This job was just to collect tickets as people boarded the plane, but they had severe weight restrictions. I wasn't svelte enough.

The lesson is: everyone has some kind of sad story. Quit the company, move on, and work at a better place.

 

These White privilege crap reminds me of two siblings arguing about who their parents conceder being their favorite child
Bobby ask "Mom Johnny is your favorite child isn't he? because he hardly ever gets a spanking"
Mom answers "well Bobby Johnny doesn't do things that get him in trouble like you do"
Bobby replies "well you need to give Johnny as many spanking as me to prove he isn't your favorite child"

this is how stupid this white privilege crap is

 

Yea black folks have had plenty of privilege.

 

White privilege was addressed in my signature line months ago.

It is the secularist liberal left's form of original sin which can only be absolved by having a D next to your name, much like a cross for Christianity. Except that it only affects white people that are not hyphenated white. Like White-Hispanics who are absolved for being a special class unless they cross a "person of color" like Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman. Then you are red meat for media consumption, instantly losing your "Hispanic" designation, and becoming instantly a white demon.

 

Privilege doesn't mean you can play sports. Try coaching.

God.

Yep, 1-800-can-pray.

 

That's racist, lol. If you don't think whites have had privilege over black folks in this country, go back and study a little American History and stop studying His-Story.

 

LOL, yep that's why black folks have the highest unemployment rate in this country because its so easy for us to get a job. You can't make this stuff up.

How do you know the black person was less qualified? When you go in for your interview do they show you the application or resume of all the black applicants that are also interviewing.

 

could that be contributed to blacks having the largest high school drop out rate? Or how about blacks living in democrat run hell holes from which they drove away all the jobs with their high taxes and high crime?

 

They have the lowest employment rate because they don't want to work. Because it is objectively easier for them to get a job, due to affirmative action. Ever heard of the welfare life style? Yea...that's the black community far more than any other.

I know you won't acknowledge it, but you know you are 100 percent wrong.

 

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions."
Saul Alynski, "Rules for radicals"
Interestingly enough, Comrade Sheikh Buraq Hussein Obama would sequester the entire state park located in the town of Westport, ie...helicopter landing site, Secret Service Rendezvous point, Sherwood Island State Park, whenever he came to town looking for money out of the towns very well off residents wallets and checking accounts.

 

Robinson was the first black to play baseball in the Modern Era and Walker started out on a minor league team, but I see your point. Not sure why that bit of history isn't taught, though but a William Edward White may have pre-dated even him.

 

Wrong they always could get jobs just not the sort of jobs that liberals subjectively thought they should have.

It was solely enacted to expand government power and increase thought control

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History does not support the modern ideological notion of white privilege which is strictly and exclusively a political idea.

 

Yes they do you should learn to deal with yours.

 

The Magic Mulatto screwed the pooch. Never again.

 

Way to defeat your own argument there.

Anyway it was actually done as a way to try and correct past transgressions against black people previously.