Tal Fortgang
About a week ago, a white kid from Westchester
(Tal Fortgang), made national news with a piece he penned in the Princeton Tory
titled, “Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege.” (http://theprincetontory.com/main/checking-my-privilege-character-as-the-basis-of-privilege/)
He’s been lauded by some, had his essay
republished in Time Magazine (http://time.com/85933/why-ill-never-apologize-for-my-white-male-privilege/)
and vilified by others (http://m.thenation.com/blog/179675-no-one-cares-if-you-never-apologize-your-white-male-privilege),
mainly the purveyors of the modern-day segregation of race/gender preferences.
So, THIS
is what the pro-segregated standards advocates have retreated to, that
"majority" males (since all existing societies are considered "patriarchal"),
ethnic Chinese males in China, black males in Jamaica, ethnic Japanese males in
Japan and white males in the USA derive some nebulous and ill-defined "privilege"
from that majority position.
That's utter nonsense everywhere, but in the
U.S. part of that "white male privilege" has been a half century of
segregated standards on virtually ALL standardized exams, racial preferences
that favor virtually EVERY other group over themselves AND being lectured by
the truly privileged - both the recipients of those segregated standards and
other assorted privileges, along with the political class," most of whom
have never EARNED those positions, but merely won a variety of "popularity
contests."
It’d be different IF the segregated standards
of “Affirmative Action” (USA)/Positive Discrimination (UK) (depending upon how you prefer
to euphemize such segregation) had existed only a decade...or maybe two, BUT
five?!
Come on!
We've had a full half a century of segregated standards that
are rooted NOT so much in the belief of white (and Asian) supremacy, but more
aptly “black incompetence.” Today’s race-based preferences stem from the presumption
that blacks (even well-off blacks from well-to-do families) cannot compete with
whites and Asians, no matter what!
Regardless of how loudly SOME of its advocates
howl, THAT is precisely the presumption that this modern day segregation is
based on, just as surely as the pro-abortion-on-demand movement is rooted in
the conviction that the poor (and ethnic minorities) will much more readily
avail themselves of that procedure than
others...AND they DO! Blacks (appx. 12%) of the population account for over 35%
of the abortions in America nationwide, a disparity that takes some doing. For
the record, while I vehemently oppose race/gender preferences, I strongly
support abortion-on-demand, at least through the 20th week of
pregnancy.
An example of how pervasive this anti-white
male bias is can be seen in a recent and ongoing debate about the state of major
league baseball (MLB) in America today. As many Latin and Asian players have
flooded MLB, the number of black professional baseball players in MLB has
sharply decreased, as has, interestingly enough, the number of white players,
BUT the ONLY question being asked is, “Why are there so few American black
players in MLB?”
Seriously?!
Now, I’m not a great sports aficionado. I've never had any season ticket packages for any professional sports franchise, nor
even any pay-per-view sports package on cable, BUT, I follow the culture and I
have never heard ANY arguments that blacks are somehow presumed better athletes
than any other ethnic group and can only assume that the ONLY people who’d even
make such an argument would be the SAME type of people prone to make arguments
about blacks being innately less proficient cognitively. Since I won’t take
such arguments seriously, I can ONLY chalk up this singular concern over the
plight of blacks in MLB as indicative of the pervasive cult of anti-white bias and dark-skin privilege.
What else could it be?
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