Here is someone speaking more articulate about the topic:

http://anthropology.net/2008/10/01/r...ial-construct/

Its not about proving the existence of privilege. It is the absurdity to which you apply it. Most of you do it in a racist and enormously counter-productive way. The entire reason fly and some others care about privilege is so they can call people racist and feel good about themselves. That's it. If you think differently, you are just being a fool.

If you have not changed one racist mind the entire time you've been discussing race, you are doing something wrong and no, I'm not talking about someone who spouts a random ignorant stereotype.

It's true. I've perpetuated the stereotype that science is better than magic.

Lets not be dishonest now. If you were talking about magic your post was non-nonsensical.

It's a language fallacy of imprecision , not a fault of the concept.

The concept that race is a conceptual construct supports the concept of white supremacist privilege. White privilege is a conceptual element of the philosophy of white racial supremacy that is long enmeshed in our politics and society to various degrees. It used to be very explicit now it is mostly implicit.

There's something oddly endearing about a person thrashing about in a blind rage who still takes the time to go back and edit their posts so long after they made them that we get to see the evidence.

Braves is in about as much of a blind rage as Fly when he's posting.

I'm just happy to openly discuss white privilege.

I have been skeptical of it's language fallacy before. I do not like avoidable imprecision when it comes to knowledge.

Thought exercise: What is a praxeological take on white privilege? Hint: it is not at all concerned with race as some high faluten CONstruct.

That would make all of his edits and abysmal grammar even more embarrassing.

Guess we can add "leaving"to the list of words Braves doesn't understand

"Punctuation Nit's" is amazing

braves- Can you provide an example of a white person who doesn't have white privilege?

Makes it a loaded question, you are still using a stereotype. I refute the premise. How is it that after over a 100 post you do not understand that I will not try to argue the truth values of a stereotype?

No interest in arguing the truth value of the premise.

EDIT: BTW fly, you nor anyone on this forum is more knowledgeable about this subject than the notable anthropologist I've studied, you all can operate in your logical fallacies and pat each other on the back but the reality is you have a ****ed up understanding of what the concept is, in spite of ignoring its fallacies. You really should stop trying to impart your cognitive dissonance on me. You use white privilege as a stick and as a irrefutable fact which only adds to the absurdity.

Who is this notable anthropologist?

I think he's talking about a paper he linked to earlier, and by "studied" he means "completely misunderstood".

What I really want to do is go through this thread and link every post you've all made that point to each other to validate your arguments but it would take too much time, even for me. Needless to say, I like my appeal better, in spite of its fallacy.

I hope is is not such an angry person in real life, otherwise you have to feel sorry for him. Hopefully he is just a troll.

His plural of blacks as blacks' was equally amazing.

Irony? I do not even know how to use s'...so if i did express it that way I assume it has the merit of being a typo and grammatical error.

no one thinks youre capable of anything that requires brain power

Jfc this bitching goes on longer than my wife on crystal meth.

sick beat bro

How long before this thread gets bigger than the OOT Amanda Knox thread?