Its not education, its indoctrination. I think the first time I heard about white privilege was in my 8th grade class? Wall of silence. It was brought up again in college last semester in my sociology class. Wall of silence.
I'm all for teaching nondiscrimination. But when you start attributing success on the basis of race, that in my opinion is crossing the line. Its basically turning into, "you're white so you owe everyone else something because you were historically privileged." What the F? I don't feel privileged when I'm up studying for 6 hours a night, I don't feel privileged working my way through college while others use their grant money on $300 headsets and $900 iPads. I'm originally of a Jewish Heritage, might I remind you one of the most historically oppressed groups for thousands of years. You look at other immigration groups in our countries history, they all faced discrimination and hatred at first in this country. Now you just consider them "white" and act like they're the ones who have had it easy. I think Frank Costello (the Departed) said it best "no one is going to give it to you, you have to take it."
And quite frankly, I'd say if you want to teach white privilege, you also have to teach iq discrepancy on the basis of race. How do you feel about that? Its something that has been widely discussed and
supported, and we'd simply be "educating people." But I'm not for teaching either, because its teaching people to judge individuals and what may be true over an entire population is not always true on an individual level. But if you're going to teach one for the "education factor" I'd say you have to teach both.
And here's the thing, race is a social construct. But why do we have to accept it as such? Teaching about white privilege merely validates the construct. Why? Shouldn't we be teaching students to get rid of the social construct, not trying to validate it?
