"Privilege" is the idea that spread like wildfire starting in about 2005 and is currently destroying Western Civilization. The response--"cuck"--caught on in about 2015.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
It is like a religion to some people. Maybe it’s the autist in me, but I have such a hard time understanding the true believers and why they believe the things they do. Is it just because they think everybody else believes it?
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Replying to @TruthWillLive
The first time I encountered it being seriously discussed, I was horrified. Why focus on such a hostile idea? Isn't privilege a good thing? If you want to talk about privilege, why not focus on executive pay & the top 1%? It always seemed disastrous to national harmony to me.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @TruthWillLive
Anyway, why did it catch on so much? I guess people were really itching for "explanations" for racial inequality, and they just latched onto it. Occupy Wall Street tried to focus on the top 1%, but it turns out that people are actually far more interested in racial politics.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @TruthWillLive
It's also an easier thing for whites to go along with than accusing them directly of racism.
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White privilege and institutional racism are the perfect kind of nonsense that leftists can use as talking points. The terms are malleable enough to be able to designate anything and you do not really need to know much to use them, but they sound sophisticated and they are good
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at putting the opponents of the narrative in the defense. There are people who think that the income gap between whites and blacks is attributable to these things. Let's just ignore the differences of proficiency in math and reading. Blacks being stopped or shot more by the
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police is also attributable to these things. Let's just ignore the differences in crime rates. Any inequality can be attributed to these things, even if the reason for their existence are demonstrable differences in cognitive skills and behavior.
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Absolutely
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