LC#4: White Privilege

Welcome back to another episode of #Logocentric! We're going to be discussing one of the most controversial topics to date: #WhitePrivilege. I discuss a bit of the origins of the concept and who articulated it in academia, as well as the methodological process that was used to develop the idea. I also discuss the racist implications and negative consequences of tying "white" to privilege intrinsically, as well as ways to put privilege as a sociological concept into perspective so we can see how it might be viewed beneficially. In this video I make a few main points: --If the characteristics that define "privilege", in the context of the person who articulated the idea, can exist in situations that don't involve a white person in either party, then there is no justification for making privilege a "white-only" phenomena. The only way to rationalize that would be to say that all white people act a certain way prejudicially against people of other races intrinsically, which to attribute a homogenous view of a group to every individual that comprises that group is categorically racist. Because it insists that there is no variance between individuals who happen to share the same amount of melanin in their skin. --Most of the points Peggy McIntosh put forth as evidence for the existence of white privilege can be explained away by other sociological forces. --Racism is, in my opinion, fundamentally an attribute of tribalism. The evolutionary basis could be attempts to rationalize stereotypes and false information about anyone outside your tribe. --We should work to identify racists who are in positions of power and remove them from influence over any governmental influence, but the same should apply to anyone of any race who is racist towards any other race. ==Sources== Jordan Peterson on White Privilege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfH8I... Joe Rogan & Eric Weinstein on White Privilege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzkq9... Jordan Peterson on Precursors to Genocide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYRK...