They're tear gassing peaceful protesters and arresting journalists in Ferguson tonight.

And again we demonstrate that this entire topic is a pointless exercise in virtual signaling and guilt shaming.

If someone is driving a beat up car with fouled plugs, oil leaks, and a broken muffler, it's not going to get fixed by screaming anything at all at drivers whose cars purr like a kitten.

Well done. You have taken an incredibly dumb term and made it dumber.

Those are slightly nicer ways of saying it, but still those are attacking the person not the argument.

Don't tell someone they have preconceived notions. Tell them how their notions are wrong.

And explain how middle-class and upper-middle class blacks can't understand poor blacks because they won't acknowledge their own privilege.

HOLY SAFESPACES!!!!

No.

Apart from Raven-Symone, I've never known many black kids from middle class families that were entirely ignorant of race relations s and the fact that their money does not protect them from getting scrutinized more closely at the mall or getting pulled over because they aren't driving a junker with 200,000 miles.

So that means a dirt poor white redneck kid who grew up in a trailer park is more privileged than the Obamas.

Paladin has been making excellent arguments in this thread while Gul, as has become depressingly typical, has not. In fact Gul was being so ridiculous he even got called out by Ten Lubak. Anna has been very even handed and I like seeing that.

Except that the vast majority of time I've seen "privilege" used in this context, it's all about tearing people down based on race, sex, and/or sexual orientation, and the rest of the time it's almost always damage control along the lines of what you've just posted. At its base, what's being described is like a form of original sin, which really serves to illustrate where people are coming from when they describe the "social justice" movement as dogmatic and/or ideological.

And I wonder how you and others are going to try to pass off this statement as something other than the naked racism that it is. No doubt it will involve doublethink of some kind.

If having a privileged birth amounted to what the social justice warriors claim, then Jesus Christ our Savior, the son of God, would have died from overdosing on hookers, booze, and blow instead getting nailed to a cross.

Yes, we've established that you are offended by the idea that you might be clueless. I don't think how it is said is the problem at this point.

You complain about mean words, then ask people to flat out accuse you of being wrong? It's much "nicer" to let a person figure that out on their own, don't you think?