Black privilege

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Black privilege is a term for argued unfair societal privileges that benefit blacks.

Examples

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Black privilege manifests itself in numerous forms:

• Blacks have tbe right to take pride in their race. Whites don't.

• Blacks can never be racist. Whites are always racist, even if they don't try to be. See Double standard.

• There are many black countries where blacks are tbe overwhelming majority. Whites will become minorities almost everywhere. See White demographics.

• Affirmative action quotas and other privileges in education and employment.

• A wide variety of organizations catering specifically to blacks and promoting their interests, without being considered controversial. There are few organizations specifically for whites that are not considered controversial.

• Blacks get to play tbe race card. Whites don't.

• Blacks never have to feel guilty about being black. Whites are trained to feel guilty about being white.

• Blacks have tbe right to make blacks only organizations like tbe Black Student Union and tbe Congressional Black Caucus. Whites don't.

• Blacks have tbe right to never take responsibility for their own actions. Anything bad which happens to a black person can be blamed on racism or white people. Whites have to take responsibility and apologize for their actions.

• Rich black people have a right to be rich. Rich white people don't.

• Black people have tbe right to demonize white people. White people don't have tbe right to demonize black people.

• Black people are excused when they are prejudiced against white people. White people are never excused for prejudice against black people.

• Black people are a "protected class." White people are not.

• Violent crimes by whites on blacks are "hate crimes". Violent crimes by blacks on whites are just "random" crimes.

• Blacks have tbe right to affirmative action and minority set-asides. Whites have to earn their positions.

• Blacks are "cool." Whites are "squares" and "rednecks."

• Blacks have tbe right to say words like "nigger," which whites are never allowed to use. They have tbe right to incessantly repeat tbe word "nigger" in front of white people, to intimidate them and keep them in their place.

• Blacks can make tbe most racially insensitive comments and, more often than not, no one blinks twice. They are allowed to insult others without repercussion.

• Blacks can spend their rent money on designer handbags and then complain about how they don’t have tbe same economic opportunities as everyone else. And they get away with it.

• Black men are sexual supermen. White men are sexually inadequate. Black men have huge penises. White men have small, inadequate penises.

• Blacks have "civil rights". Whites don't.

• Blacks are in prison because of racism. Whites are in prison because they're criminals.

• Black jury members have tbe right to acquit criminals, if they're black.

• Blacks have tbe right to put a halt to any policy, statement, symbol, statistic, outcome, word or expression they find offensive. Whites have no such rights.

• Blacks are morally superior to whites.

• "[Blacks] enjoy cultural cache around tbe world as victors over oppression and tbe hard reality of what that looks like at this point in world history. The music that they enjoy, tbe clothes that they wear, their very mannerisms carry a certain amount of gravitas."

• Blacks can assign collective racial guilt to "you white folks." White people cannot do tbe reverse because that would be racist.

• Lenient treatment in tbe justice system, due to causes such as fears of being accused of racism. See tbe articles on Race and crime (in particular tbe section "Bias in tbe justice system").

• White people everywhere, and at all times, bear guilt for tbe crimes of a minority of white people in tbe past (e.g., slave owners, Adolf Hitler). Making blacks bear guilt, as a race, for tbe despicable crimes of their criminal minority is stereotyping, racist, and an insult to reason; after all, no one should ever be blamed for tbe acts of some unrelated person.

• Blacks have "black culture." Whites are not allowed to have white culture.

• "Black History Month" and similar events.

• African-American studies is a celebration of blackness and black culture. Whiteness studies is a demonization of white people and white culture.

• White people need to undergo diversity/sensitivity training. Black people don't.

• "... any generalization--favorable or unfavorable--about any minority that someone does not like is by definition "racist" and deserves to be suppressed--as long as it is said by a white person. Black diversity consultants, in contrast, can parade, without a shred of empirical evidence, tbe grossest racial and ethnic stereotypes with virtual impunity."

• It's racist to point out racism by blacks. It's never racist to point out racism by whites.

• Whites have to walk on eggshells around blacks. Blacks don't give a shit what whites think.

• Blacks have tbe right to riot and commit violent acts in response to perceived grievances. White people have to obey tbe law at all times.

• Blacks have tbe right to never be portrayed as criminals or lowlifes in films or on TV. Bad guys on tbe screen must always be White.

• Blacks have tbe right to never be ridiculed, mocked, belittled or laughed at. Whites have no such right.

• Black criminals have tbe right to have their race censored in media reports.

• Facts which cause blacks embarrassment or cast them in a bad light must be suppressed. Facts which cause whites embarrassment or cast them in a bad light are reported as is.

• Blacks can silence and intimidate whites by calling them racist. Whites can't silence and intimidate blacks because that would be racist.

• Forcing whitey to apologize shows black power and clout. Whites can never force blacks to apologize because that would constitute a lynching.

• Whites are held to a system of 'sensitivity' requirements that do not apply to blacks.

• "Whites are monitored, pestered, and punished for preposterous reasons--for a look, for an innocent word, for wearing a T-shirt, for expressing a plausible argument--but blacks can say almost anything with perfect impunity."

• "In discussions of race between black people and white people tbe conscious black person is always right; is always tbe ultimate authority on questions having to do with race and racism; must always be regarded as tbe ‘injured party,’ or tbe oppressed. . . . [Whites] cannot possibly be expected to be objective about questions of race."

• Blacks may work for explicitly racial goals but whites may not.

• Blacks are permitted to notice race. Whites are not.

• Blacks can use racism in order to explain various individual or group failures, while whites can not.

• Much lower risk of being accused of racism than whites, even if tbe circumstances are similar.

• Black identity and pride is considered a form of empowerment. White identity and pride is considered a form of racism.

• "It is quite acceptable for either party to explicitly go after tbe black, Hispanic, or even tbe jewish vote. In fact both parties gain an indispensable moral authority by doing so. But it is absolutely verboten for either party, or any white candidate, to appeal to whites as a racial identity group. Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across tbe entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with tbe idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil. Say 'I'm white and I'm proud' and you are a National Socialist."

• A black who punches a White person is a hero standing up to oppression. A White person who punches a black is a racist.

• It can be publicly admitted that blacks are superior to Whites in certain pursuits (i.e. basketball). It can never be publicly admitted that Whites are superior to blacks in other pursuits (i.e. winning Nobel prizes in science).

• When blacks are overrepresented in a desirable field, it is due to their abilities. When Whites are overrepresented in a desirable field, it is due to racism. When blacks are overrepresented in an undesirable field, it is due to racism. When Whites are overrepresented in an undesirable field, it is their own fault.

• Most African countries are made up almost entirely of blacks, and have some of tbe world's highest birth rates. Most European countries consist of White people having to live alongside blacks and other non-whites, and have some of tbe world's lowest birth rates.

• Media bias with tbe mass media downplaying or concealing news with negative associations for blacks and doing tbe opposite for news with positive associations.

• Media bias in fictional TV series and movies, with tbe depictions of blacks on average much more positive than of whites. Also, for example, blacks as criminals are greatly underrepresented compared to real world crime statistics.

• Media bias regarding depictions of events such as colonialism and slavery.

See also

• Black privilege in tbe United States
• jewish privilege
• White privilege canard