What is uncomfortable? Most of the talking points are hardships and anxieties faced by nearly everyone. I went to college recently. I "listened" and heard all of the talking points. Hell, I had to hear more than most students. Due to a student leadership position, I had to meet with an african student group and "listen" for hours.
I learned that black students and white students face a lot of the same problems, anxieties, and life challenges. We have a lot more in common than we realize. For example, "the talk about police." I got that talk from my parents. Corrupt cops have wrongly screwed over people in my family. Those members of my family did not have any magical "privilege" protections. Also, cops pick on white kids in the suburbs and white people too. Some cops, like some people, are jerks and might kill if they feel like it. I fear bad cops too and am nervous around cops in general because I do not know if I am dealing with a good cop or a bad cop. There are two small towns in Texas I will not enter because of injustice that happened to members of my family and I expect the worst out of the police there. None of that is unique to the african american experience.
All people have to deal with rude and inconsiderate people. All people get made fun of for some appearance related reason or another silly reason. All people get wrongly judged by at least someone. All people get screwed over by someone for no good reason.
This is not all that serious of a matter, but I'll give you small, everyday stuff that happened to me like what I head from the African American students. At UT, I had a class I should have had an A in. On the last test, the TA gave me the exact failing grade to lower my overall grade to a B to the decimal point despite having a mostly correct test that was well above the score I received. In fact, the last test was grossly out of whack with any of my other test scores. I asked the TA and he flat said he did not like the look of me. He was a british exchange grad student, was going back to britain and did not care if he screwed me over as there would be no consequences for him (he had exchange student privilege!). I had never spoken to him ever and he just did not like me for some screwball reason. I went to the professor and he said he does not grade tests and his TA's grade stands. He would not even look at it. I tried to protest and it got nowhere. Being white did nothing for me there. Life's not fair and full of stuff like that. Sometimes you get wronged for no reason or a horribly unfair reason. It happens to everyone. Count your blessing and move on.
Anyway, for some bizarre reason, we are now teaching propaganda that everything is great for white people and bad for black people. Some black students are believing that propaganda. Some white students who are either truly ignorant or have truly enjoyed an easy life are believing those teaching as well.
If you have spent anytime among different classes of people, different races of people, are not ignorant, or have not had all the luck, you go "hey, a lot of this is not unique to the african american experience. Where was my magical white privilege when a cop did this to me? Or this happened to me? Or that happened to me? I can relate to a lot of this." I am not complaining about my life. I am very blessed relative to all the people alive in the world today or have lived in human history. However, if you are white and have experienced some bad breaks from people treating you poorly for bad or hateful reasons, you understand that can you understand and relate. If you are white and do not come from money, you can understand and relate. If you are white and come from family without college degrees, you can understand and relate. Also, maybe it helps if you have mostly lived places where "people who look like you are the minority".... aka caucasians in South Texas. Finally, human beings have both empathy and the ability of abstract thinking, so yes, they can understand what it is like to be someone else or correctly or incorrectly imagine what it is like to be someone else. That is within the reasoning capabilities of all human beings.
I have listened. I have read about it. I have heard it all. I have concluded that the whole concept of "white privilege" is exaggerated, too broad, does not accurately describe every individual's separate human experience and is pretty racist to assume such a broad thing about any race as a whole. Also, I have talked to older people of various races who remember what an actual systematic racist society looked like in the 1950s. Many of our older posters could tell that is not what we have today. There was a time, not too long ago, where people of color were mostly treated horrendously as not as equals by society as a whole. That is not today. Unfortunately for the white privilege propagandists, I have the memories, life experiences and "fancy book learning'" to remember that we used to be at war with Eurasia and were not always at war with Eastasia.
There are indeed some unique hardships everyone faces. However, most importantly, removing statues, changing building names (nobody even knows or cares who the building is named after most of the time anyway. Also it is named after them because they gave money, not because they were good people. They earned the right to have their name there by PAYING for it or by making some great contribution to the university. The name honors the financial or academic contribution, nothing else), changing schools songs, etc IS NOT ENDING WHITE PRIVILEGE, FIGHTING RACISM, ENDING DISCRIMINATION, MAKING ANYONE'S LIFE EASIER, REMOVING HARDSHIPS, ETC. It is just pooping on other people because the pooper has either been pooped on or feels they were pooped on. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Pooping back on the original or perceived original poopers just creates hate, enemies and disunity.
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