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? asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 8 years ago

Why do some white people deny that being white is an advantage in our society?

Update:

This always perplexes me. One person just mentioned he has ADHD, so he isn't advantaged by being white.

Does he think he has ADHD because he's white?

Update 2:

What white women are exempting themselves? White women are advantaged by being white. Who is denying this, other than, you know, racists like the people on here who deny white privilege?

Update 3:

@Tony: Yes, when people say whites have an advantage in our racist society, they mean that white people never have to work. They aren't talking about, ya know, racism.

Update 4:

@ Tony: Oh, I get it. You're a racist. Thank you for clearing that up, as if I didn't already know. Whites work hard and people in other parts of the world don't! Of COURSE! How could I not realize this. It must be my lack of pathetic racism.

Update 5:

So ... because there are poor white people, there isn't racism? Really? That's all you've got? That is your counter argument? "Some white people are poor, so racism doesn't exist."

Update 6:

@Dude: Thank you for that. All this question needed was more racism.

Update 7:

@Shorty: Annnnnd more racism.

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  • Kyle S
    Lv 6
    8 years ago
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    By denying that they have an advantage as whites, it allows them to believe that they aren't part of the problem facing racial minorities (really don't even think we should use this term anymore, white Anglo-Saxons are probably a minority in North America now). If they aren't at an advantage by being white, then implicitly it means that racial minorities (majorities?) aren't at a disadvantage. If poverty is more prominent in immigrant and racial communities, it's because they're lazy and want to bum off the government. It's not a problem they have to deal with beyond building more jails, which are disproportionately filled with colored people.

    Of course, that must just be because colored people are more violent by their nature...*facepalm*

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Your questions are becoming more nonsense each time. Whites have to work too, it's not like they suddenly get what they want and born with a silver spoon in their mouths.Do you think Whites just got rich and done great things by doing nothing?

    How come some nations with abundant of natural resources are mostly poor and White nations like the Nordic nations and many European nations are the mostly advance?

    Yeah I'm a racist for telling the truth. I'm pretty sure other races can claim how strong, fast or what have you, but if Whites claim such things it's racism.

    Do you know what's the advantage , hard work.

    @dude, you are correct,Whites and Asians tend to have higher iqs look at their cultures.

    The Japaneses and koreans have very few natural resources despite that they are economic power houses along with the Nordic nations.

    You said we're all racists but you want special rights for White women lol.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Honestly I have no idea, I am white and I realize that being white I do have an advantage, or rather, somone as a minority has a disadvantage.

    It's like white, straight, men. They completely deny that they are a privileged (probably why all the straight, white men are going to Thumbs down this).

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Being smarter is an advantage. Fact is, whites and asians do better academically. There are some smart blacks and latinos, but on average they do much poorly.

    edit. I knew that race card would be played, so here we go. My girlfriend is Asian. I know many blacks and latinos. Race card is so old, so people should stop using it. Just look up facts and you will see that minorities do poorer academically. There is nothing racist about it, if its a fact.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You know when you look at the CEO's of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Verizon, and other corporations and see they are white men? Well just know most white men are poor, blue collar workers. I can only dream of having the "white privilege" these men have.

    If a poor blue collar worker is white privilege, I don't know what all the fuss is about.

  • 8 years ago

    id say guilt. we ****** over ever race and its truth top races are whites 2nd asians 3rd blacks people want to pretend racism is dead or never existed well they like to be ignorant am aware people lie i dont think i have to say more than that.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Millions of white people live in poverty. This can be confirmed with a few simple internet searches. If being white is an advantage, why do millions of white people live in poverty?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You can always lessen your guilt by breeding with a black guy , pref. straight from prisons for being a pimp (because he is "underprivilege")....

    Oh...and let him beat the cr.p of you to pay back the days of "slavery".

    Source(s): Libretardism.
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    tell that to the majority of white people that live in trailer parks.

  • RAWR
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    i'm lily-white and i have ADHD too. OOPS THERE GOES RUSH LIMBAUGH.

    i have ADHD and my ancestors were european. BYE BYE DAVID DUKE AND POOF YOU'RE GONE LIKE MAGIC.

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