Douglas Murray on the term 'white privilege'

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Here he touches on the complexities of history and how people with so called protected characteristics have been present in public discourse before 2020.
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[JohnGreenan-xhtp]

My white privilege is working on a building site 9 hours a day 6 days a week to feed my wife and 3 kids. Iv been doing this the last 20 years. What a privilege x

[BassistPaul]

Ah ... the White privilege that saw my father working down a coal mine in South Wales at the age of 14.

[jimwhippet]

White privilege? What's that? My Mother born 1908 (I'm 77 by the way) was too poor to have a doll. Picked coal from waste heaps to have a fire in the home. Felt hungry all of the time. My male line were coal miners for over 200 years, which meant some of them worked underground from the age of 7. I get very annoyed when I see well educated, comfortably off people spouting this kind of rubbish. What has happened to young people to cause this apparent stupidity?

[bradonchristian]

Being hated by everyone, held to a higher standard and blamed for everything is a hell of a privilege.

[alanv]

I’m 68 years old and still waiting for my white privilege to kick in. Must say I’m looking forward to it!

[bobbressi]

My Irish ancestors were treated like garbage. And that affected me not at all. And even if it did, I can hardly blame the descendants of the people who persecuted my ancestors. It is not their fault. I hate term white, as it is used by progressives. It lumps so many vastly different cultures together with vastly different histories.

[tekay]

I grew up in the projects, my “white privilege” is that my dad stuck around and got us out of there.

[kec]

I read a book from a 19th-century author visiting England. She recounted the sadness of horses descending into coal mines where they would live out their short lives. She, being of the upper class, missed that men, young men, and boys were also descending into that hell. That was the reality for many. Factories, coal mines, and bridge building meant early deaths for these privileged white men and impoverishment for their families.

[holimoli]

Douglas Murray is brilliant. Always so knowledgeable and articulate. Always magnificent.

[zglzdso]

I never knew my father. I collected bottles by the side of the road whenever I wanted to have anything over and above the minimum. I knew thin navy bean and ham soup for supper, powdered milk for my breakfast cereal, and white bread with butter and sugar for an afternoon treat. I walked a mile on Sundays to a park in a complete other neighborhood and stood in the back of the line to see what might be left over at a weekly church lunch given out. My mother clawed her way off of assistance, but even with good test scores (not good grades), all my mother could do for me was support me for three semesters of college and then I worked my way through the rest over the next ten years, dropping out four times. I joined the Army and deployed three times and worked my ass off. That is the white privilege I experienced. I have the privilege of having BECOME a man. I have the privilege of being able to point at entitled jackasses and say “FU. Work for it.”

[thetotaldepravity]

Thank you, Douglas. From a white working-class writer who spent his young life trying to defy his rotten education and difficult upbringing and the second half being told he's privileged.

[rodtanner]

In an honest look at history, no-one comes out looking good.

[loudenlaffnite]

The terms "white privilege" and "black excellence" are noxious.

[nidfest]

Douglas is such an eloquent, brilliant man. I love listening to him. ❤

[burtmantooth]

I’m amazed at how he can consistently be so polite to everyone.

[sophianewtown]

I remember a few years back on Facebook I complained that I don't like this tendency to assume privilege based on skin color. I am a Jew from ex-USSR, a descendant of slaves (the feudal system), and have lived in poverty half my life. I was told "Oh, don't be silly, no one means the whites from USSR or Jews, it's about the actual colonizers like Brits and Spanish - Europeans!". Well, guess what, fast-forward to today...

[bottleneck]

And I continue with the rant. My white family had two brothers killed in WW1. One of the bodies was never found. One killed in WW2. Two imprisoned by the Japanese. One lost his legs. Like most families on rations throughout the war and on rations after until I think 1953. Struggling to see the white privilege here.

[nigelsheppard]

The plain fact is that there are certain pseudo-academics, certain journalists, radio presenters and certain politicians who make a living out of grievance.

[stevelatimer]

Thank you Douglas. Don't have much more to add. We need people like you. God bless