The quintessence of white privilege

[sheshe2]

It is the quintessence of white privilege to be walked out of your home in a crisp blue Polo shirt and later go on tv to complain about excessive force... Eric Garner sold cigarettes, Roger Stone sold out his country... Yet the latter lived to complain about ‘excessive force’...- Cyrus McQueen

http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2019/01/cyberwar-heats-up.html

[akraven]

1. K&R!!!

[yuiyoshida]

18. K&R

[pangaia]

26. WINNER !!!

[yuiyoshida]

38. Asuka!!

[Baltimike]

2. A-MEN!!! nt

[Apollyonus]

3. So very true n/t

[Mosby]

4. most white people don't own polo shirts

Just saying.

This is an example of "rich" privilege, IMO.

[localroger]

5. I'm white and almost my entire wardrobe is polo shirts

I think I own one shirt that actually buttons down the front. I might have worn it when I was on vacation a few years ago.

[Mosby]

8. the "polo" brand, you know, ralph lauren

They cost almost 85 dollars each at macy's.

That's what stone was wearing.

[localroger]

25. Ah, brand vs. description

Need to clarify that. "Polo shirt" is also a generic term for a T-shirt with a few buttons below the neck and a collar. I buy them from Wal-Mart but I've worn them since I was in high school, where polos with the school logo were the dress code, over 30 years ago.

[pangaia]

28. Time for a change, Roger....

Wait... are you an engineer?

[localroger]

31. Pretty close

I have 3/4 of an engineering degree and 30+ years doing most of what engineers do in the field. I went back to the polos after I got a bit too technical for the service-technician Dickeys to be appropriate. Trust me, when the Singularity comes it will be wearing a generic polyester polo shirt.

[pangaia]

32. I knew it. I just KNEW you were an engineer.

The polo shirt for decades was the dead give away...

[localroger]

33. Honestly more of a wanna-be engineer

If you think polo shirts are bad, try wearing an actual uniform. The last straw, as I was starting to put computers in places nobody had ever seen them, was when I entered a customer's office and said I was there to update the computer system we had installed, and the receptionist said "Oh, I thought you were here to spray for bugs."

[pangaia]

34. HA !!!!!!!!!

Made my evening..

perfect break from studying Japanese...

[Celerity]

24. A lot of Polo is dirt cheap. Hardly the domain of the rich.

[Hotler]

6. K & R. In your face Roger

[lame54]

7. From what I understand...

Garner wasn't even selling cigs that day

[Cha]

9. That should be plastered at every

white privileged asshole who whines about his/her "discrimination".

Mahalo for this, she

[sheshe2]

10. Thank You Cha!!!

[Cha]

37. You're

, she

[Honeycombe8]

11. So...if it were Ben Carson, he would have been killed?

Or was it his class and connections, you think?

[oldsoftie]

14. I think you're on to something.

[Hekate]

20. I think if Ben Carson were arrested by the FBI in a specified raid for a specified cause...

...he would be shown the same courtesy as Roger Stone, due to the reasons you mention.

However, public record shows that African-American men who are homeowners or renters in upper class neighborhoods are still seen as the "other" by their own neighbors and are likely to have the city cops called on them for doing normal things like exiting or entering their own homes, especially if they forgot their keys. Those are moments of maximal risk for these men, and they are as liable to be beaten or killed as any other black American man who encounters the cops n any setting for any reason.

[sheshe2]

22. This not about Ben Carson...

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Strawman.

Ben, a black man that is as white as can be. Head of HUD for gosh sake goes out and spends 31K on a dining set for his office. He is supposed to have been helping to house less fortunate people. Instead he ripped them off and enriched himself and the unqualified people he hired.

This is about a obscenely rich white man, Roger Stone, that alone makes him privileged. The point of the comment shows the vast difference between color and privilege. You are trying to insert Carson as Eric Garner? Please! Eric Garner's last words were "I can't breathe" as NYC cops used excessive force and strangled him to death, a man that was selling cigarettes on the street to make a few dollars.

False equivalency.

[lunatica]

58. The fact that some people still argue that white privilege doesn't exist

is blatant evidence that posts like yours are truly necessary. I support you doing this all the way!

It’s just a gobsmacker that it’s still needed.

[Solomon]

29. If Ben Carson was selling single cigarettes on the street,

then yes, he would get fucked over. Fixed that for you.

[EffieBlack]

30. If they KNEW he was THAT Ben Carson, probably not

But if Ben Carson gets stopped by the police, he stands a better chance of getting beaten up or killed before he has a chance to tell the he's the Ben Carson that shouldn't be beaten up or killed than any white person, whoever they are.

[Clash City Rocker]

52. Henry Louis Gates probably has class and connections, and he was arrested entering his own house

So if you’re trying to frame this as race having nothing to do with the issue, I beg to differ. Statistically, a white suspect without class or connections is less likely to be killed or roughed up when he’s arrested. Race plays a significant role.

[spooky3]

53. James Blake is young, handsome and upper class

but police still threw him to the ground while he was waiting outside a luxury hotel for a ride to a tennis center.

[2naSalit]

12. K&R

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Yup...probably been like that since Ancient Greece and Rome. The rich are treated

differently than the poor and those who can afford to be treated fairly and have good representation, get it. The poor do not. One of the grand injustices of life unfortunately.

[sheshe2]

35. And black are treated differently than white.

Every dayum time.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Yes Sheshe! And, isn't the saddest part that if you think back, during Obama years,

we might not have made much progress, but at least I felt like there was a first step - a growing recognition of the problem.

Lordy, it will take us years to reverse the damage that Trump has done, and not all of it is quantifiable. It's like he's made hate acceptable. Getting my nails done yesterday, two women yelled out (when Pelosi on TV screen) "I HATE her", she reminded one of "crooked Hillary!" That's what gets me - there are absolutely zero concrete reasons for that. Neither has done anything - like start a fake war where thousands upon thousands died. Or gin up hate of Mexicans. Or blatantly neglect our planet's future. Or side with adversaries before our own public servants.

[sheshe2]

40. I agree, it will take years to reverse the damage.

Some of it may well be irreversible, the damage he and his ilk have done to this planet. I can't comprehend why anyone would want to destroy this country like he is. He is truly evil.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

43. Ugh and CNN just said 640 days until election. I

Hope someone on our side does deep research on the regulations trump has reversed. Bet there's a gold mine of horrors there. I looked for a list one time. And it's technical and hard to understand. But if investigated would make great debate material for any Dem. Can just picture "trump reversed the regulation that protected clean water in x river in x state where kids swim. Why?"

[sheshe2]

44. I just watched this.

Kids are much smarter than the MORAN!

Link to tweet

[Laura PourMeADrink]

49. That's just brilliant! Thanks for sharing

[sheshe2]

50. You're welcome.

[Onyrleft]

15. I thought he was a "tough guy".

[Hekate]

16. KnR, Cha

[BadgerMom]

17. K & R

Exactly!!

[docgee]

19. More like rich privilege.

I think if it happened to Kanye, for example, he would have been out same day also. If I was raided by the FBI, my poor ass would still be locked up.

[debsy]

21. Not to trivialize the point of white privilege, which I totally agree with...

... but he is also a white MALE, a much finer point that they are all trying to use as an excuse to start a civil war because they are - according to Ryan Moore in his letter to the editor of the Tennessean that someone posted earlier today - the "most discriminated group in the U. S. today". These whiney, MF crybabies have no idea about what life is like outside their self-congratulating, narcissistic bubbles. I think it is time for an new episode of Trading Places where they all have to spend one year living life in the most impoverished neighborhoods in this country with no access to their identities.

[sheshe2]

23. True.

I love this part.

I think it is time for an new episode of Trading Places where they all have to spend one year living life in the most impoverished neighborhoods in this country with no access to their identities.

They wouldn't make it a day let alone a year.

[Solly Mack]

27. K&R

[ismnotwasm]

36. Oh yes.

[ck4829]

41. K&R

[MineralMan]

42. Just a bunch of ineffectual men trying to be Chads.

I apologize for the incel reference, but a lot of those people are classic incels. Some of them compensate for that with money, but they still have the mindset.

Chad wears Polo!

[MicaelS]

45. I don't think for one second they are incels.

They can, and do get all the sex they want, they just pay for it.

[MineralMan]

46. If you can pay for sex, one way or another, you can

tell yourself you are not an incel. That does not mean you are not one at heart, though. Neither does wearing Ralph Lauren make you a Chad.

[MicaelS]

47. I disagree.

Some men are loners, and mental fantasies, pornography, strip clubs and masturbation satifies their needs. Possibly with an occasional paid sexual encounter. If that is their voluntary choice it does not make them an incel, not even in their hearts.

[MineralMan]

48. OK. We disagree, then.

[Docreed2003]

51. K&R.....

[Bonx]

54. What a load of crap. That's GREEN privilege.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[wryter2000]

55. Can't rec this enough

Trayvon had the audacity to walk through his father's neighborhood

[gtar100]

56. Very telling about media bias.

There is so much empowering and interesting news out there every day but they (MSM, talk radio, newspapers and online news services) broadcast and print way too much bullshit meant to manipulate opinion and obfuscate the important stuff...or not say a word about it and effectively support public ignorance on vital topics. For example, how hard would it be for journalists or broadcasters to clarify "marginal tax rates" when it's brought up. It's not that hard of a concept to understand!

But more to the point of this op...they give face time to some of the worst elements of our culture, as if they speak for the rest of us. White privilege indeed!!! with allowing Stone to talk after his arrest. Blatant classism. Which is why I can't watch TV anymore...I get triggered and end up feeling angry and more stupid for having listened to people for whom I have absolutely no respect.

[Toorich]

57. Always remember the "Golden Rule"...

... He who has the gold rules ....

[geardaddy]

59. K&R!

[marble falls]

60. A couple of days ago my wife and I were having breakfast with my 88 year old MiL ...

she started on the needlessly rough treatment she thinks Stone got in his arrest. I let it go. The TV in the restaurant was showing a news report of a drug bust in Houston. My MiL looked up and asked what the footage was about. I asked wasn't it unfair that the police chose to arrest people "in the early morning hours, all those cars, lights, armed cops."

The conversation stayed lighter after that.

I didn't ask her if she saw the video of Stone firing off automatic weapons here in Austin with that chuckle head from the ironically named InfoWars.

[treestar]

61. The nerve of right wingers whining

about such a thing! They really think they should get special privileges? Too much.

[sheshe2]

62. I hope he goes down hard.

Despicable man.