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user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Explaining white privilege to a broke white person

Holy... you assume all white people have "white sounding names"? Damn, I thought hubski was supposed to contain thoughtful and introspective discussion. Disappointing. Seems more like another authoritarian left hangout. You're making all kinds of baseless broad assumptions here. Are you completely blind to that?





Quatrarius  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a little fresh to make all these claims after a single comment.

tla  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't see it being a common occurrence for white people to be systematically filtered out of job prospects on the basis of having black-sounding names

I can break out the dictionary if you're having difficulty with the meaning of what was said, but I suspect you're smart enough to figure out phrases like "common occurrence".

mrsamsa  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exactly. Seems like there are a whole lot of defensive white people in this discussion who just want to misrepresent others so that they can cling to their own personal victim narrative.

mrsamsa  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Holy... you assume all white people have "white sounding names"?

You'll have to expand on this. How does "it's not very common" translate to "all white people"? And did you read my final paragraph where I explain that exceptions in some aspects of privilege doesn't affect the large set of privileges as a whole? What was your argument against that?

    You're making all kinds of baseless broad assumptions here. Are you completely blind to that?

Well they can't be baseless as I backed them all up. But Hubski is supposed to be a place for discussion, not baseless accusations like the ones you're presenting. If you're making a claim then back it up. It could be that you've misunderstood something I've said, like the black-sounding names bit, and I could correct you like I've done just above.

catonrthrndarkness  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It doesn't appear to me that mrsamsa assumed that all white people have white-sounding names. mrsamsa implied that they are perceived not to have Black-sounding names.