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Not the only bold statement in the article. >But I'm a smart guy (hi white male privilege) It's amusing to see someone go mask off and call non-whites low IQ
by ta8903 3y ago
Not the only bold statement in the article.
>But I'm a smart guy (hi white male privilege)
It's amusing to see someone go mask off and call non-whites low IQ like that.
- LargeTomato 3y agoI don't think that's what they meant.
- qingdao99 3y agoWhat did they mean? Can't figure it out.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoEducated. Access to good schools.
- dabeeeenster 3y agoWhat has that got to do with being good at chess?
- stavros 3y agoThe concept of privilege is that you have time/energy/resources to do things like play chess instead of looking for work. I'm not sure if you're questioning the concept of privilege (which is fine) or saying that it specifically doesn't have anything to do with chess.
- faeriechangling 3y agoWhich amounts to concluding that whites are collectively more intelligent than other racial groups with extra steps. Funny to hear from a group slowly having its wealth and population collapse. Maybe they’re not actually smart and are just entranced by conspicuous displays of intelligence like school and chess. You can’t have privilege unless you are in some way more powerful and able than other groups in the first place. I think one day people are going to wake up one day and realize that white people are just like everybody else. That they’re unremarkable - not some privileged elite.
- faeriechangling 3y agoI’m not so charitable. It’s nearly impossible for one to walk around self-conceptualizing as a privileged white male without the inherent identitarianism and rank ordering of identity groups corrupting you into bigotry. His association with “smart” with “white male privilege” is a mask slip. Yet all saviours believe in some way, they are more powerful and capable than those they are saving. Even if all they’re better at is a board game.
- stavros 3y agoOof, when you try to be self-deprecating and acknowledge your privilege and it's still racist. You either believe there's white male privilege, and the author is correct, or you don't, and he... has a different opinion than you? I'm not going to go more into it because I dislike framing this clear class problem as a race problem, but I wanted to point out the erroneous reasoning.