Sunday, 04 May 2014 04:13 PM
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I'm honestly sick of seeing all these posts about other students complaining about being offended of White Privilege and that this is something that they can't be blamed for when they have absolutely no wholesome comprehension of what White Privilege is. Everyone assumes that White Privilege means that we didn't have to work hard to get what we want. That because we're white, we get everything that we want, but that's not necessarily true. Yes because we're Caucasian we do get some lenience when it comes to certain things such as: a number of job opportunities and the fact that we don't always have to worry about what other people think of us because of our color or creed. Yet what many are starting to confuse is the difference between white privilege and having a financially fortunate background. Sure, everyone complains about money. Why wasn't my parents rolling in the bank or why is it that everyone blames me because my family is rich? That's not White Privilege. I mean, if a Family of non-Caucasians were to work hard and make a lot of money. Then do we call that African American/Hispanic/Asian/(Any other ethnicity aside from Caucasian) Privilege? No, we don't. That would be racist. What is White Privilege, is that some people are so ignorant enough to post up things like, "Because I'm white doesn't mean that I have to apologize for being privileged." White Privilege means that we don't have to worry about things that people of diverse ethnic backgrounds might have to face on a daily basis. Like being judged on a racial level in a public setting for the things they may wear or how they may present themselves. A false theory of White Privilege is starting to give a number of students here the clouded idea that they can cry out to the masses that "It's not our fault that we work hard and have lots of money."
No, it's great that your family worked so hard that you were given the great amount of benefits that you have today and that you are reaping the benefits. But you can't just blindly call out the White Privilege card when people complain about you having these things. It's ignorant, and very, very racist. What you're doing is creating this disillusioned fissure that because you have all these things, other’s just need to work harder and suck it up! Well what about the poor white people who work for minimum wages and have multiple jobs? Sure, we can say, “Maybe they should just go back to school.” Sure they could. They can work hard in post-secondary education and make something of themselves, but is it White Privilege if the poor white families complain about how rich the upper class white families are? No, White Privilege is that I don’t have to worry about walking around Water Street in the wee hours of the night and getting pulled over by the cops because I’m white and I’m looking like I’m about to do something illegal.
Recent events have made me very frustrated by those who are writing and doing these things. Justifying that White Privilege is something that they can’t be blamed for. I had a friend of another ethnicity share to me that little note that someone left back in Hibbards, and honestly never before had I been ashamed to be white! DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD YOU PEOPLE ARE MAKING US LOOK RIGHT NOW?!! My friend explained to me completely about the Hmong background that I never knew before. I didn’t know that back during the Vietnam War, our military recruited the Hmong people to fight for us and that after we lost the war, we left a huge amount of them behind and that to this day, many of them are still fighting! Thinking that we’re going to come back and rescue them! It’s heartbreaking to learn about who they are and what they went through, and now someone at the University has the gull to piss on their culture just because they feel offended? WHAT THE HELL SHOULD YOU BE OFFENDED FOR! WE LEFT THEM FOR DEAD AND KEPT THEIR HISTORY IN THE DARK!
-Deep sigh-
So in the end, I’m just begging the students of UWEC to at least take some time to learn what White Privilege is and to learn more the people that we might be bashing on, and don’t do the whole, “Oh I talked with an ethnically-diverse student, so it’s all good” garbage. If we’re going to become better people of society, and to be the future role-models of this country. We need to mature up and realize that White Privilege is out there, but we can definitely become better than it.
That and some of the students here are making us look like pretentious, racist, jerk-offs.
No, it's great that your family worked so hard that you were given the great amount of benefits that you have today and that you are reaping the benefits. But you can't just blindly call out the White Privilege card when people complain about you having these things. It's ignorant, and very, very racist. What you're doing is creating this disillusion fissure that because you're white and rich, people can't complain about it. You know who else had that same mentality? (Not making any connections at all between these two topics) The Nazism ideology of the Arian race. What you're doing is establishing a racial hierarchy of who you are using the White Privilege card, and frankly, we don't want to go down that road again.
Sunday, 04 May 2014 12:02 PM
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When the finals stress gets to me too much, I like to wrap myself in plastic wrap, spill some water on the ground, and then pretend I'm a slug crawling away from all of my responsibilities.