'What Are You Willing To Give Up?' #SOC119

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#race #racism #whiteprivilege

[jodysin]

This professor is so good and his students are so smart.

[foad-esad]

I "gave up" 20 years of my life serving in the military. I worked and sacrificed to get what I have and I'm damned if I'm going to give up anything to people because of the past. I wasn't given crap, I earned it.

[carpzero]

A lot of "privileges" are earned by making good choices in life . Why should those who earn privileges give them up to those who don't?

[Umakemelaff]

Good analogy. That big beautiful pie….will enable us all! To starve. Not sure those kids have a chance. Talk that talk. Gonna actually walk it?

[tlupold]

this conversation is about dividing people and disrupting national unity. Intersectionality is the radical progressive/left/democrats method for acquiring power and centralizing control

[stephencollins]

In life, you need to make the most of what you ARE given. Anyone in the United States has privilege over those that are not here. Don’t squander winning that ‘lottery’.

[kapiatgatas]

In America there is no WHITE PRIVILEDGE. Instead of pointing to people, look at yourself in the mirror. What skills do I have? Am I able to finish the task in front of me? Do I listen? Am I lazy? Am I a thief, feeding from someone else work? Am I been appreciated enough. Do I deserve to be appreciated? Before coming to America. I wake up early at 3 am, and trek 5 mountains to do farm work. Here in the US work is easy? At 52, its a walk in a park. I drive a 17 yr. old and 160K miles Toyota. Forget about the show cars and blings, blings. Build a strong foundation first.

[jodysin]

I'm white and was on welfare for a few years during my childhood. I had to work hard to get an ok job with ok pay.
Did I benefit?

[bigskyab]

Sabrina nailed it....The white privilege discussion is all about communism.

[JohnDoe-rsgh]

Don't give up any pie! You worked hard for it! It's yours to choose what to do with! You can give it up if you choose but you have no right to tell me what to do with my slice!

[davebruessow]

The rollback of "affirmative action" was one of the "best things" our Supreme Court has ever done. Lord knows how many jobs I was not considered for based on my skin color...

[chidoquest]

These frauds will give up nothing, but will have no problem taking everything away from someone else.

[GDTheTrain]

More colleges need professors like this and kids in college we’d to learn to think and discuss

[mrcieslar]

listening to some of the comments made by the students makes a good case for raising the voting age back to 21.

[meb]

If you are a white person, and you move to Mexico, will you be treated as well as native Mexicans? If not, will you complain about brown skin privilege and demand to get a bigger piece of the pie? What about moving to India, or Kenya, or Tunisia, or China, or ... - would you expect to be treated the same as people from those cultures?

Look, we can play this little game of privilege, but maybe we need to acknowledge that nothing is perfect and that we have to live with a certain amount of imperfection.

One last thought on the privilege game: whoever gets promoted to having more privilege will automatically be labeled as privileged and have to be brought down. In other words, as soon as 'you make it', you must be brought down for having made it. How will this ever work out in a good way?

[bustertn]

I gave up spending all my money on stupid stuff my whole life. I gave up going out during the week rather than getting sleep and being ready for work the next day. I gave up having all the newest cool toys while my friends had everything. I gave up my time for my family to have a good and solid lifestyle. I gave all this up so I could retire in my early 50's. I won't be giving up anything else to anybody just because of my color or my race.

[paulphillips]

I was subjected to Affermative Action for 45 years, all my working life. Yes, there is a serious "inequality."

[blueyedevil]

😂😂😂😂 “If you want that job raise, theyre going to give you that raise ….” HOLY COW SHE IS HILARIOUS….

[patwilson]

Last week I was in the hospital. My nurse was from Nigeria. He had a thick accent that was hard to understand. He was one of the BEST nurses that I interacted with. He talked about how long and expensive the flight back to Nigeran is. I thought it was a good interaction. By asking him about his life I was engoldening him as more than just a care giver. but a man. I am a Trump supporter. We are all not racist evil people. I try and live Martin Luther's quote. A man should not be judged by the color of his skin, but the content of his character. And what I observed this man had a Spectacular character.

[msx]

You have the right to benefit from all the good decisions made by your parents and their parents.