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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that every white person became fully and appropriately aware of white privilege.  What would the next step be, politically, and as a matter of policy! for ending white privilege?[/quote]

Ending all legacy admits to all universities, even private ones. Reparations, possibly, even for people who don't "deserve" it (essentially redistributing wealth from white America to black America). A lot more teeth to anti-discrimination law, with zero attention paid to whether or not someone's livelihood or reputation might be damaged if found guilty. Automatic, public, independent investigations of police shootings. A careful combing of all laws, on every government level, to make sure that even though "neutral," they aren't designed to favor those people already in power.

It would feel a lot like losing privileges to most white people, even though the goal would be undoing the automatice assumption that our current value and power systems are the best ones.[/quote]

Ending legacy? Doesn't affect the vast majority (99%+ ) of white people who don't benefit either. And you ignore that black people are now increasingly benefiting from legacy admits (see the Obama girls as a perfect example).

Reparations? You know, there was a huge war in which hundreds of thousands of men died and the near total destruction of the southern economy. All that wealth based on slave went into slaves and more lands - and all that disappeared overnight. And it also conveniently ignores that the majority of Americans, including the majority of white Americans, do not have ancestors who were here at the time of the civil war. Are you saying that a hispanic or Asian immigrant's taxpayer dollars needs to be used for reparations for something that happened 150 years ago?

A lot more teeth to anti discrimination laws? How? We already have very strict anti discrimination laws. Among the best in the world. How would you make the laws stronger? It's a statement that's easy to say until you hit the reality. Would you legally penalize people for making racist statements? What about freedom of speech? Or what about a black man calling white people cracker? Would that be included too?

Automatic, public, independent investigations of police shootings? We already investigate these matters. How would you change it?

A careful combing of all laws, on every government level, to make sure that even though "neutral," they aren't designed to favor those people already in power? What people in power are you talking about? Who would do these investigations? What people would these "reformed" laws benefit? As with above, it's easy to make this statement but you likely have no knowledge of the reality or what this entails (let alone the abuses it lends itself to). How do you know you aren't subject to your own biases and prejudices that you seek only very specific problems and will bend the situation to make sure you do find the problems you're looking for?

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