re: Privilege is a LIE

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why do you deserve your fathers money more than the taxpayer/projects supported by tax dollars?

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I will answer your question with a question. Why do you think you know better than this man's father as to where his money should go after he passes away?

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I will answer your question with the question. Why do you think you know better than this man's father as to where his money should go after he passes away?

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But, but the taxpayers and stuff.

As a black person, let me add just a little perspective.

Overall, it is true that privelege does not exist in a way to excuse someone of their failures.

What most people are calling privelege is actually classism.

The poor = lazy is really not accurate as it discredits people who are in really bad circumstances. Just like you don't deserve to be undervalued, neither should the working poor.

I think the privelege argument also stems from lack of opportunities. In truth, most blacks/other minorities lack the networking advantages that most of the white people in upper to middle class have

This isn't the fault of modern day white people, but it's a side effect of generational exclusion from the means to gain wealth until the recent past decades.

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I think that the problem with privilege is that liberals have somehow extended it from ivy league trust fund babies to upper middle class honkeys in Sheboygan.

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no, privilege extends to almost everyone. Even poor people, or minorities.

I really think it was marketed poorly by liberals.

If they had said, you should recognize your blessings in life and be thankful for them. And realize not everyone had the same blessings, I think it would have worked. but they didn't do it.

liberals suck at marketing.

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But is this not the very definition of privilege when daddy passes down wealth to an unaccomplished son?

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This is the definition:

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a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.

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Their fathers could have done the same thing. But they didn't. They chose different paths. Not my fault your old man sucked.

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they had said, you should recognize your blessings in life and be thankful for them. And realize not everyone had the same blessings, I think it would have worked. but they didn't do it.

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Thank you. That's all I'm trying to say.

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Or we could live in reality: neither party deserves it. Neither party was likely relevant in the creation of that wealth.

Some snotty arse ends up getting the money because he did household chores and was privileged enough to be born into wealth.. then he wants to talk down to people

Embarrassing really

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I have investment directives that are specifically designed to leave a little behing for my kids. I wouldn't have taken that direction if I were childless. The day liberals try to take that wealth from me and my family against my wishes is they day I will instruct my sons, as I lay on my death bed, to burn every dollar while it's still mine. I suspect many Patriots will do the same.

I've spent my entire life paying taxes for the greater good only to watch politicians use that money to enrich themselves, buy votes, and pay off thier political allies. They won't take a cent more.

you have replied to me twice in this thread, so yes, you read my posts.

and you remembered other posts I made.

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3) My issues are more with causation and intervening opportunity. While I think the impacts of racism have harmed the black "community," I think the black community's own rhetoric is, at this point, of far greater damage. An example would be when churches are often the first to use stigmatizing labels of racism to avoid looking at problems within - you've got a problem.

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I think that the black community doesn't like to air its dirty laundry to other people. But my token black friend says these things are discussed in the black community.