Maybe we need a DU "white persons' group".
That way we can discuss the unique challenges facing white people in America. The pain and anger of being reminded of one's white privilege. The n-word double standard. The presumed inability to jump.
Yes, I'm sure non-white people care about all these issues, but it would be nice for us white folk to be able to discuss in a dedicated forum, with people who share the same experiences. Somewhere we can talk about how we're totally so not at all racist, we're just saying...
We could also consider merging the white persons' group with the men's group. That way we cover the two most repressed elements of the US population at once. Billionaires who feel threatened by discussions of income inequality, y'all are welcome too. As are straight people marginalized by the "gay agenda". And throw in the gungeon for good measure.
Of course, we'll need a name for this new forum. Maybe something about "freedom". Or we could go with the "storm" metaphor...
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Could be a good name..
Do it. I will laugh all day long and never post in their protected group.
People still ask me that question to this day. Why?
It's one word.
White dude used it here, and i used it back. I got alerted. So I guess they can say it if they want to. I can't though.
because, that's like bad or something.
talking skin color, I'm talking who they are. I mean, really, plenty of white people are "Ns" just like there are plenty of black "N"s. The shiftless, lazy, brutish, pickaninnies, Uncle Toms, mammies, and the lazy whites all get that title. It's who you are not the color of your skin. I'm so tired of being lumped in with racists!
:snarkasm:
I think it's time white folks band together to cast off the oppression. I mean, it's the only way to exercise power. White Power!
He probably thought he was paying you a heartfelt compliment. Honoring you with the concession that your people make for good slaves.
I had already gone a round with him a few days before when he called my husband white and told him to make me watch roots. I knew what time it was.
That was his apology for the roots thing.
Never feel sorry for what dumbasses do. I am strong. Ich bin stark. You have to admit, it was funny that he was so serious.
caricature. 
Gotta give the guy marks for sheer chutzpah, I guess, if nothing else... 
Bold as hell, full of privilege. I wish i had recorded it.
His wife....... I feel for her. She is a battered woman, so i give her a break.
Once he mooned me, i had to go., though.
has a ring to it 
I'm actually stumped, though...I can't think of a strictly racial equivalent, separate from the "<ethnic> babes are hawt to f***" angle.
Hrmmmmmm.
uh......oh, wait!....err.....nope. No ideas coming to mind.
Thanks!
I'm a direct descendent, on my dad's side, of Jonathan Edwards, which somehow a US history prof I TAed for knew meant I was related to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I'm not sure exactly how that family tree works. They stuck me with the Edwards as one of my middle names.
I apologize for posting face pictures rather than showing them in bikinis. I'm still suffering from my Dworkonite indoctrination, which has left with me the false illusion that women are human beings. Perhaps with time and exposure to a group like the OP describes, I can overcome that brainwashing. Already the men's group has taught me that George Clooney's fiancé significance is not as a human rights attorney but rather as just another one of thousands of hawt, bikini babes. See, I am learning.
Thank you Thank you Thank you for that huge belly laugh!
You got it...
Or leave some sort of obvious clue. Anything else is just a lucky guess if right. 
Quite the opposite.
But I guess that makes it all too complicated.
Go ahead and hate me for my skin color.
In the name of equality, and the effort to end racism, of course.
A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed" subdued wish, conflict, or train of thought guided by the ego and the rules of correct behaviour. They reveal a "source outside the speech". The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
K&R
This OP is bang on brilliant. Spotless.
Oh, yeah. That's a keeper!
...of both Swiss and Irish slavemasters who like to hang-out in the slave quarters after dark, I suppose I'm white enough. I'm a possessor of XY chromosomes I inherited from my parents (and slavemaster ancestors) so that makes me man enough. I am an official 1/100000000th Billionaire, so I have some money and therefore can at least throw that into the Wall Street pile and lose it like any red-blooded American can. So I'm monied enough, for a micro-second anyway. I'm at least a 3.1 on the Kinsey, so that makes me officially ''straight.''
- And everyone at DU knows there's no one more gungeony here, than DeSwiss!
K&R
In all seriousness, though, I doubt you'll find anyone on DU who actually believes that.....other than the occasional troll.
The fact DU is 98% white isn't enough. We definitely need our own group. Having to deal with all this color is just bumming me out, man. 
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by calling it "racism" or "racial discrimination" instead of using a useless, divisive and alienating new "white privilege" term that very clearly has done nothing but spawn hundreds of posts of people screaming at each other comparing everyone's various privileges and non-privileges they deal with in various situations while forgetting all about talking about the very real problem of racism.
Seems to me the term "racism" or "racial discrimination" always worked out just fine here before (not to mention anywhere else we've been when the subject is discussed), and people of all hues discussed the very real problem of racism without anyone's hair going up in flames or getting totally off the subject of the very real problem of racism by instead making up lists of everyone's various privileges and non-privileges and mapping them onto any random situation.
Here's what I learned about the term "white privilege". It's bogus. And it is because though racism is a very real problem no white person is always going to be privileged over every person of color in every situation because there's a HUGE list of other privileges or non-privileges both of those people have that are going to make one more fortunate than the other depending on every single different situation and person and how much is known about them. I've been reading that 'well, all other things being equal other than race the person of color is the non-privileged one every time.' Really? You'd have to be dense as a huge ball of lead to believe that and for two reasons:
1) There ARE no two people of different races where everything else is going to be equal - EVER - because we're all extremely individual people with a plethora of both privileges and non-privileges depending upon the situation, and how much is known about us, AND...
2) There are numerous situations where being a person of color IS the one privileged by their race as in many situations where the white person is the one who is of the minority race. And there likely isn't a white person here who hasn't been in such a situation at least once in their life and learned first hand what it was like to be discriminated against because of their race. And believe it or not us white folk that have been in such situations DO have something positive to contribute about racism being a very real problem because of those situations teaching us what it FEELS like to be discriminated against for no other reason than the color of their skin.
Now, here's and idea: how about we dump this useless "white privilege" term that is CLEARLY not working to further the cause of eradicating racism much less even being able to get into that discussion at ALL and get back to discussing the very real problem of racism by talking about the very real problem of racism.
BTW, I get the sarcasm here......but if anything at all, perhaps we could build a safe haven for those people who believe in "white privilege", or any other type of "privilege" really; IMHO, that would likely solve many of our problems. Maybe we could call it the "Privilege Discussion Corner" or something? Just a thought.
(Especially for literal "white privilege" Honestly, I didn't really start hearing about white privilege on this site until just last year, and I'd been a member since June of 2011(was lurking for a bit before that). (of course, I'd known about the concept since 2008-09 as you may have heard, and even adhered to it once.....even if I no longer do these days)
And do notice, too, that DU has 180,000+ members these days, but with only maybe a few thousand active posters. More than likely, it honestly seems that many of those people who DO believe in white privilege(especially the literalist version) are willing to be rather open about it, and in the reverse, most who don't believe don't really seem to care one way or the other. So take that as you will.
Please proceed, Governor.
That's not what I said or implied, at all. See? You're taking my words outta context, again.
Because it seems to irk you so bad that someone who happens to be a (guy) feminist disagreeing with you on some of your pet topics, or whatever.
That is why you post and post without ever communicating.
That's bullshit. I'm sorry, but that's what it is. I actually have tried communicating. And that hasn't worked.....because you won't consider what I have to say, even though I've done what I can to do consider *your* viewpoints.
What we say is irrelevant
Pot, meet kettle.
In all honesty, I'd like to kindly suggest that you please take a moment to reflect and gain some introspection; IMO, I think you could use some. No offense meant, but it seems you've become so blinded by your wishful thinking that you can't see the forest for the trees.
In many cases, polls really only mean something to those who invest the intellectual and emotional energy to participate in them; this is no exception. In other words, many people don't really care all that much, even those who would outright agree with me & others of the like mind; in all honesty, I guess I would be grateful if more people were active on my side of the debate, but I realize that I am one of only a small number who actually cares enough(though in my case, I was kind of forced to make a stand, by circumstance) to make their voices heard. And I'm fine with that. But you guys don't have a lot in the way of numbers either, though.....oh, and by the way, don't confuse understanding that People of Color, women, LGBTs, etc. do still face extra stumbling blocks(something I would imagine that most people on here get), with believing that this is because white people have literal collective "privilege", because they really and truly are not quite the same thing.
can't bring themselves to click the rec button a thread.
If there is even one poor White dude....then White privilege doesn't exist......or something!
You rawk, DanTex
