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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up on food stamps, donated clothes, and remember only getting name brand foods when the Lions Club gave us groceries during the holidays.  Half the items on that bingo card applied to my childhood.  But because I'm white I'm privileged?  Maybe I can claim being racially profiled now too.

This crap right here is how republicans still win anything.[/quote]

It’s not all or nothing. Most people experience a mix of different factors. I had probably 2/3rd of the boxes.

It’s also not saying that privilege is universally true. No one has said all white people have it super easy.

[b]In general, it’s easier to be white. 
In general, it’s easier to be rich. 
In general, it’s easier to be able-bodied.[/b]

That’s what “privilege” is.
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And no one EVER knew the bolded before people wrote articles and books and fcps paid for bingo games to teach that, so they’ve really got bragging rights for educational effectiveness here.[/quote]

If you have taken the time to read through the thread, there are a lot of people who do not know the bolded.[/quote]

Nonsense. No one believes life in a wheelchair  etc wouldn’t be harder.

What people are rejecting is the dismissive hand waving that implies life is was and always will be easy because they aren’t missing a hand, are white and grew up with regular meals and maybe a yearly vacation.

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Just because you aren't able to think critically doesn't mean that we can discount these lessons. Nobody has said that life is automatically perfect. It's saying (again, in GENERAL) you have a head start if you grow up white in America. There will always be outliers, there will always be individuals for whom this isn't true, but in general it is true that life will be a lot easier for you if you are a white person. 
Some of you are so afraid of opening your eyes, I'm so glad this is being taught in schools bc this thread has shown that parents would be teaching an ugly lesson in shame and martyrdom[/quote]

Head start over whom?

In terms of education, income/wealth, prison sentencing, health outcomes, 2 parent marriages etc, whites don't have a head start.  Other groups do better.[/quote]

Just because one group “does better” doesn’t mean that whites still don’t have a “head start” compared to others. It’s a spectrum. 
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I disagree, if  groups that have largely been here for 1-3 generations outcompete the two demographic groups that have been here since the founding of the nation, and the newcomers, lack the "privilege"  of having cultural/linguistic familiarities then the entire premise of a head start as a whole is flawed.[/quote]

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