∞∞∞ wrote:As you know, I do believe in white, and especially male, privilege; I've enjoyed its benefits as well.
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging it. It took a lot of reading and explaining from other people, but I see how the US is stacked against people of color, women, and minorities. I also used to think that my hard-work alone got me to where I am but I now see how it was just a part of the equation.
There's a ton of information about it; you know how to use Google. Whether you choose to believe in hundreds-of-thousands of hours in academic research is totally up to you.
It's a myth that young black men die from police because of racial bias. If you need a primer on that, see
this with several cited studies within debunking it. Pretty much the entire argument of BLM rests on the "young black men are statistically more likely to be killed by police than young white men, therefore racism". But when you go deeper the biases disappear and in one study shows the bias is actually against whites. It's a fact that black people are more significantly more likely commit violent crimes - it's backed up by both FBI crime stats and the DOJ's surveys of crime victims. You cannot just assume that black people are no less likely to act aggressively towards police. Some shootings aren't justified, but many are.
And feminism is full of schit, too. I'll try and break it down as briefly as I can.
1. Pay Gap? Women don't make less than men because of sexism. They do because of career choices, making sacrifices for child-rearing, and not having the leverage of job offers from out-of-town to get raises because they're usually tethered to where their husbands have jobs. And despite all the supposed bias against women, among single, childless, college-educated people women earn more money.
2. Rape Culture? Complete and utter bullshit. Equivalent to saying that people locking their doors promotes "burglary culture".
3. Mansplaining? What literally everyone goes through but only women bitch about.
4. The stud-slut double standard? It exists because women can use sex to get what they want, and most of the time men can't. It's why prostitution is far more profitable for women than men and why gay men get laid a whole lot more than straight men.