Belief in White Privilege

I will respond to Con's arguments in turn, then advance my central premise. "WHITE PEOPLE ARE DOING WORSE" Con's evidence fails to suggest that whites are doing worse. Their chart -- https://gyazo.com... -- shows that the black-white income gap has continued almost unchanged since 1967 -- *two years* after LBJ enacted laws against literal Jim Crow segregation! This, if anything, is proof that black disprivilege continues to exist. Consider that in Con's chart the white:black income ratio was 44700:24700 in 1963 -- meaning whites made 80.9% more -- and 71300:43300 in 2012 -- meaning whites made 64.7% more. Progress of 13% in 45 years is hardly progress, especially when the baseline is *segregation*! Do you agree that if white people make 180.9% of what black people make, this is inequality? "BLACKS ARE MAKING LESS MONEY ... BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LOOKING ENOUGH" This is a flawed statement. It's possible that blacks have a harder time gaining employment because they're not searching -- but Con presents no evidence to support this. And remember: "Black college graduates have about the same job application success rate as white college graduate felons. [SP]" Part of the reason blacks can't get jobs is because they get rejected -- for being black! I'm not arguing that employers are explicitly racist, but their hiring patterns suggest that they may be implicitly racist: they might think that a black is less likely to be a good employee, and turn him away. This becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, where a black can't get a job, and so has no work experience, and so can't get a job. A viscous cycle. Do you agree that if, blacks are locked out of employment, this is inequality? "UNEMPLOYMENT OF BLACKS V WHITES [...] THERE ARE MORE BLACKS [...] BLACKS HAVE A BIGGER PRIVILEGE THAN WHITES" This is a misunderstanding of unemployment. Unemployment occurs when someone can't find a job -- it's not a privilege. If you could not find a job, Con, would you consider that to be a privilege? "RACISM IS NOT BIGOTRY. [...] IF SOMEONE ELSE'S [...] OPINION OFFENDS YOU, THAN THATS NOBODY ELSE'S PROBLEM BUT YOUR OWN." Con misunderstands. I'm not talking about triggered SJWs. I'm talking about REAL racism that tears people down. Consider: Cyberbullying kills people, because it makes them feel worthless. When a racist calls you a nigger, that makes you feel worthless. When someone thinks you're stupid because you're black, that makes you feel worthless. When people think you're violent because you're black, that makes you feel worthless. When someone denies you a job because you're black -- see above! -- that makes you feel worthless.* If Con has some time, I recommend they read the study "The Effect of Racism on Black Mortality and Life Expectancy" [CONF]. The study correlates online racism with black expectancy in locations throughout the United States. In short: More racism means shorter black lifespan. Racism like this makes black's poor living conditions (read: bad houses, bad neighborhoods, bad schools) even worse [DEEP]. In short: Racism is bigotry. Bigotry hurts. "IF A BLACK GUY [...] WANTED TO HAVE A [...] DEBATE AND I DIDN'T LISTEN, WOULD THAT BE [...] BIGOTRY [...] OR [...] RACISM?" Neither. Racism is when you pre-judge someone by their color. (And racism is a form of bigotry.) If you decided "I'm not gonna debate this guy BECAUSE I'M BUSY", then it's not racism. If instead you decided, "I'm not gonna debate this guy BECAUSE HE'S BLACK", then it's racism. Do you see why this isn't racism? "IF IT ISN'T ABOUT HATE TELL ME WHY [...] PEOPLE [...] WERE GOING AROUND AND BURNING AMERICAN FLAGS" Because they're ignorant or dumb. Same reason people are racist: They don't know better, or they don't want to. CENTRAL THESIS White privilege exists -- nonwhites have it worse, and whites have it better. That's just a fact, no moral strings attached. Con doesn't really dispute that there are multiple economic ways in which nonwhites start lower on the ladder. Thank you. REFERENCES: [CONF] https://paa.confex.com... [DEEP] https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu...