"Exploring White Privilege"
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2022
- This is a short segment from an introductory class on race and culture that is taught by Dr. Sam Richards at Penn State University. Today's video comes from the fifth class of the Fall 2022 semester. The live stream took place on Thursday, September 6, 2022: • 22FA Class #5: Shading...
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It’s painful watching students unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans - anything except reason.
Agreed. Hard to watch.
They slip into other people's ideas
Listening to that first guy struggle to say a sentence at all and still having not said anything at all by the end is just….some other level of painful to watch
It is important to teach kids critical thinking
@@darktengu77 indoctrinated from kindergarten all the way to college to feel guilty, or be the victim. This is sad
I'm clear about one thing, Dr. Sam Richards has unbelievable guts and courage to teach a course on race and culture in today's climate at any university. Unreal.
Seriously! I wouldn’t be surprised if some kids complained about him, even though there would be no basis for that.
If you can teach people in a relatable way that forces them to think and reconsider you can make an impact.
Is that not what critical race theory is? Teaching about race and culture? And conservatives preferring for it to stay out?
@@via3155 I mean it’s really impossible to say, because every teacher teaches it differently and there isn’t a solid definition
I'm guessing one reason he tapes his class is so he can defend his lessons
Every single person in that room is privileged beyond belief. They are more privileged than most people throughout history.
privilege comes with money not skin color, those with money decide who is privileged and who is not
@@csparrow42 Just by typing that comment out you're historically one of the richest and most privileged people to ever have lived...
@@EnlightenedBro105 i doubt that, im just a hooman tryin to make it
@@csparrow42 Not true. Privilege comes from pushing oneself to be better. Do that and the money will follow. There's an old saying that goes "Money follows success."
@@mathewm7136 Hard work helps, but if you look at the world's biggest successes, they usually got there with massive help from their families. There's another saying that goes "It's not what you know, it's who you know."
This channel makes me realize every day just how little college students know. It’s a reminder that they are still kids. They are still professional regurgitators.
This. I found no intelligent conversation in return. No good questioning of the professor. When they felt backed in a corner their response was "I don't understand the question". These kids haven't been taught how to think, they have been trained what to think.
Ditto!!!! 😢 You summed it up in a paragraph!!! 👍🏼✌🏼
@@Vekurus Yep. We used to call it "brainwashing'.
That's a result of the school system.
And dems want to make the voting age 18 lmao
A college professor that actually makes people think about current issues, unheard of
Peter Boghossian, philosophy professor driven out of Portland State University by the woke idealists, also does podcasts and plays a game of critical thinking on college campuses. He's also a part of the new heterodox university of Austin.
His lectures show the importance of history in school and how the lack of information has a profound effect
In have google
So you have far left information at your fingertips and you don't see that as a problem ?
The lack of correct information is the problem. They have information it’s just the wrong information.
@@sadhu7191you don't think goggle is not run by leftist, lol climb out from under that rock 😂😂😂
Some of the misinformation is that blacks are the only enslaved people?? But there have been white people enslaved...but we don't teach that...
My mom came here from a different country. My family literally arrived here with nothing and had to build their lives from the ground up. I’ve worked my ass off for everything I have and I’ll be damned if someone else is gonna attribute my success to the color of my skin. If you are a blue collar middle class construction worker you don’t have privilege you have your hard work.
@@bull419 Nah that’s your job, keep claiming your victimhood.
@@bull419grow up
No, wrong. The formula is very simple: white = bad, non-white = good. Haven't you ever attended a Berkeley polisci lecture?
@@SaltySteff I hope you're being sarcastic. Otherwise I hope you grow up. Thats coming from a 21 year old, also in college.
@@ethancavanagh6360 the fact that you can't tell my comment was reeking of sarcasm is just as concerning to me
Protect this man. He is one of the last of his kind. He is getting everyone to think critically!! This is what college is supposed to be about.
TRYING to get everyone to think critically... It's sickening to watch people rather be "politically correct" than face the truth of the situation. Every time I watch these videos I'm thinking... "Are these people real? What the hell is going on in this world..."
Prof does an excellent job of demonstrating CLASS in America.
There is no class structure in America. That is the point.
Shame on people who focused on bettering themselves financially
I bet they have moral values too...
I could be as successful, if I wasn't so emotionally Invested in judging others
while honing my victimhood skills
Pretty privilege is the biggest privilege one can have. It's the biggest force towards upward mobility
@@legallyregarded LOL I like your name.
Without actually bringing the point home. It’s not race, it’s class. I was REFUSED financial aid at a community college because my dad made ‘too much’ money (50k/year with four kids). Never mind that I was living on my own, paying my own bills and paying for my own schooling because my parents couldn’t afford it.
What the professor is doing is important. More often than not when we talk about complex social issues, such as white privileged, people try to oversimplify and talk in euphemisms and cliches. But they can't explain themselves as easily as they speak in euphemisms & cliches. You can't just make loaded generalizations & be surprised when someone asks you what you mean
What about black privilege?
In usa racism against white people it's "normal "
Democrat Black Privilege is the only true racial privilege in America today and EVERYONE KNOWS IT!
Yes, and that’s called “low resolution” thinking
@@panchodelaverga8929 I like that- Imma use that; it's highly succinct.
Certainly. The modifier "thought-terminating" cliche is an apt one here
These kids are clueless. The money spent on their education can't even buy them the common sense to take away the racism they unknowingly hold. As a country, we don't see each other as people anymore.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
Happy Emancipation Day... Ask yourself why the holiday name changed, who changed it, and why.
Im a Black man and I believe if you re willing to work your ass off, you can have anything you want. Focus on where you want to go and how to get there vs wasting energy on who has more or less than you. You can have it all , if you re willing to pay the price
Through FORCED DIVERSITY.
I's shocked this prof was not shouted down and fired. I didn't think you could teach the truth in American Universities
And in Pennsylvania
That's why I'm here, because this professor is actually thinking outside the box with his students. Hope we can get more.
And he seems very loved by his students too.
He is not in Florida.
He must have tenure. Otherwise he'd be fired before the class was even over with
I've watched 3 of these soc119 videos on UA-cam and I plan to watch all of them. What a great professor. I love how he uses a boat load of logic 101.
This class would be impossible in most of California 😂
Yeah I just started tonight! Good stuff! Hope for colleges! I hope there is more of this guy out there.
Through his own ability to articulate himself, I feel he didn't really hammer home a solid point to his audience.
#1 tactic of a narcissist - when you fail, blame someone else.
@SomethingRandom blaming yourself and taking responsibility for your actions is mentally ill. You people have it so nice, it's always someone else's problem and never your own. I am grateful I do not think like that.
You know my ex wife
@@Matthew-rz3io 😄
Have you ever heard of redlining
? I'm not sure you are describing what a narcissist is
Yep I'm privileged because I worked hard , saved my money and made a better life for myself.
Delusions
"If you're thinking like other people are thinking, you're not thinking in a very smart way." Possibly the most polite, teacherly way of saying that, broadly speaking, our culture is completely off the rails when it comes to reason and logic.
Its wealthy privilege, not white privilege. For example, a homeless white or black person. Who has more privileges....
Thank goodness this teacher is trying to show these students the undeniable truth.
The undeniable truth? He just focused on wealth and “pushed back” on people when they came too close to a logical point. “The undeniable truth” would’ve started with a brief history lesson on the origins of White Privilege. “The Benefits of Whiteness” were actually written into this country’s legislation, starting in the colonies. You obviously have a specific view on this subject… and you’re not alone. But having a “discussion” devoid of any facts will never pass as truth. I can’t believe this is a college course… 😒
@stupidgenius924 he's pushing back to get deeper into thought. This limited example shows victim mentality is taught in schools and at home. The lady in the middle even tried to say victimhood on skin color is a gradient scale. The darker you are the more a victim you will be. She even tried to first say she would rather be poor and struggling but white vs her plot in life which is extremely privileged. She had to back off the comment because it's clicking that she's no victim.
@@stupidgenius924 "too close to a logical point" ...where? You obviously are blinded by a bias and it shows. You are just regurgitating the same claim without backing it up with anything. Which legislation are you referring to? What current law provides a privilege to a white person that it doesn't a black person?
@@MrSkarpy if you’re unwilling to educate yourself on the subject, or, you prefer your own opinion over and despite the facts and history, then we’re at an impasse.
@@stupidgenius924ohhhh the irony
He's basically saying "don't just repeat what you heard, have a think about what it means". It's great to watch.
The concept of "white privilege" sounds like a discussion of a "caste system". Perhaps it would be useful to examine past and current caste systems based on criteria other than skin color, to determine how other societies, both past and present, dealt or deal with the issue.
I like this professor because he makes them think and question themselves.
the point is privilege comes with money not skin color
@@csparrow42then why is the exoneration rate for wrongly convicted innocent citizens 53% Black
@fawkewemf5616 might have something to do with 60% of violent crimes being committed by black men
Teaching them how to think critically, not making them.
@@reformcongress he's making them too wtf
It's class privledge, and it doesn't matter what your skin colour is. If you come from a poor background it's harder to move up the social scale. It's likely you live in an area that's economically underfunded, schools don't have the same resources as an area that's richer. It will a bigger struggle to get to college and University than if you have family that are economically wealthier regardless of skin colour. You're already several steps ahead of someone from poorer neighborhood. Now it's not impossible to move up from working class to middle or higher but it's a lot harder to begin with. Your route will probably be more of a struggle than someone who is already at middle or upper social scales.
It depends on culture, culture has changed for blacks the first black astronaut went in to a library when blacks wasn't supposed to be in libraries & cops didn't care, what's stopping them from going now
It's like when these kids were in school they never met the rich black kid or the rich Asian kid so they don't know that high socioeconomic people of color exist lol.
Everyone has a phone. You can study and get good grades and get into college despite being from a poor family or a "bad school." It comes down to the person's motivation, their grit.
Incorrect. I grew up dirt poor in a trailer. The only thing stopping you is you, not class. Anyone can climb the class ladder. I now own three companies, one being an international multimillion dollar tech company for the past ten years, I started from scratch while homeless. I’m sick of peoples bull crap excuses blaming lack of success on some bull crap social construct. You’re only stopping YOU
@@TheWinterValkyrie I didn't say is was impossible I said it was harder to climb up starting from a poorer background compared to someone starting from a richer background. Someone from a richer background will find some doors open far easier than someone who comes from far less money.
What on God's green earth are kids getting taught in these colleges and universities.... all I hear is victimhood and division!!
I think they’re being taught how to think critically when it comes to complex social issues.
@@Goma328 that'll get them far in the real world when you have a family to take care of and bills to pay
the truth, that racists have been hiding.
@@Goma328so you believe in crt I believe?
I think what they are learning is how to accept people that are not white. The way we stop division is to know and understand people that look different than others. As far as division, it has always been here. We will never change anything if we keep ignoring it.
Great professor, making students think by using simple and practical questions.
Disagree... he is very leading. CHeck out his comments on Aramaco on other videos... he's human and he's biased left. I just can't believe this is a college class. I was an engineering student... this isn't challenging in any way.
@@williamerdman4888 NO doubt, the liberal art classes are way too easy. I have double engineering degrees in masters and nothing compared to a EE major. 120 students in the beginning and 60 failed/dropped after the midterm...
@@williamerdman4888 dude he's not into the white privlege crap he's against all the bull crap he combats the social justice warriors how can u call him far left
...that said he doesn't have it very hard as his students don't seem to think very high above the ground...
@@williamerdman4888getting people to think past their 20:32 years of indoctrination of victimhood thinking can be challenging. I'm sure different level of mental work than engineering. That's a whole level in its own (which is why engineering is such high demand).
I find it completely fascinating how they (and by extension we) throw words around and know the rhetoric but when it comes down to specifics, often something gets lost. For example: “you are advantaged because you are white” - what does “advantaged” mean? how are they “advantaged” over other people? If I’m white, dirt poor, unemployed, no bank account, unable to go to university, specifically how am I advantaged over the person of colour in that room who has never had need of anything, who is sitting in a university class and did not pay to be there (parents paid), who drives a Tesla? Please tell me, without all the jargon they parrot, where is this white privilege and “advantage” I experience? Specifically? Can you point to it? Without any constructed words? ….. I love listening to engagement like what is shown here. It is truly eye opening for me. Thank you for posting these!!
It's an ideological shaming tactic, which is why these questions can't be answered, but you already know that lol.
Of course every white person is not going to be wealthy and mostly because of their choices. Blacks make up about 13% of the population and yet 19% live in poverty, whites make up around 60% but only 8% percent live in poverty. But statistically blacks are more likely to be sentenced longer for the same crime so that an advantage. Growing up I heard white people tell me I talk white, so basically talking proper English is contributed to white. What people fail to realize is the psychological effects that has been placed on blacks. Civil Rights Act was in 1964 in which many people are still living that went through segregation and extreme discrimination. One of the things most important studies that pointed out the psychological effects and helped end segregation was the “Doll Test” by two psychologists that showed that black girls chose white dolls and concluded that blacks felt they were inferior to whites.
I understand where you’re coming from, to help answer your questions I think it’s easier to look at white privilege separately from economics because white privilege doesn’t mean you have everything easier. It’s typically invisible to those of us who aren’t black or brown and because of that, as purple sweater mentioned it’s hard to wrap your head around it. Some easy examples to know you have have white privilege are: “Have you ever worried about being criticized for getting a job or getting into a school because of your race” if the answer is no you may benefit from white privilege. Another example is “I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the person in charge or have to appear in-front of a judge it will most of the time be a person or my race. One last note is that it’s easier to look at it instead of calling it white privilege, so instead just look at it like society views us differently based on our race and most people can agree that society views us differently because of our race and because society views you differently on your race your life journey will be effected by your race which I think we can all agree on that.
@@kevinko7195 The average Nigerian immigrant out earns the average white person born in here. A bit impossible with so much unseen white privilege.
@Sheldon McNary @Sheldon McNary i get what your saying but how much of that is taught by the black community to the black community. It's not white ppl telling blacks these things it's in the homes of the black community. My whole life I thought black and brown was more beautiful than white , my whole life I've been lead to think this by media and other white ppl and made fun of for not being tan or darker. I loved black dolls and always found dark skin so beautiful because I was told I wasn't beautiful because I'm white with freckles and burn. Do black children think white dolls are beautiful because it's what they are taught at home?
The only time I hear the word "Privileged" is by someone that wants to try to prove that they have had hardships. All folks have hardships in some way or another. I always liked what Tony Dungy said "even though we can’t always choose our circumstances, we can always choose our attitude in the circumstances." I believe that Attitude goes a long way in any circumstances. So if we sit around feeling like someone else made it because they have "Privilege" then I believe that is a negative Attitude and will lead to more anger about ones circumstances. Even the richest most powerful folks have very hard circumstances either in their past or currently.
I just don't care about who has what "Privilege", I rather have a attitude that is thankful for where I am and looking toward where I want to be in the future. Hardships vary between seasons of our life. Stop blaming folks that have nothing to do with you other than they breath the same air as you do.
I got lucky. My Dad was not very verbal so I seeked mentors. I basically did hundreds of mini interviews asking older people their history, what they overcame, what lessons they think I need. They saved me from wasting my time and focus of anything I decide is important. We are top 4% US family wealth. Done with no money gifts, no college education. I highly recommend finding mentors everywhere you can.
Right on man
Should've "seeked" an English tutor. The word is "sought".
very wise of you to do this. good work.
The professor stays solidly in the middle of the road. I’m from a dirt poor family of nine and grew up in a 2br house. I overcame poverty through hard work. Every decision we make determines our path. I’m a millionaire now because I refused to accept the hand that was dealt to me. I will happily argue the myth of white privilege with anyone.
Nothing wrong with white privilege
But it does exist.
White privileged is not always about money. It also about benefiting in situations over someone else for being white. If I walk into the store and you walk into the store and something gets stolen I’m most likely going to be number 1 on suspect list while you’ll be at the bottom. Being profiled by cops and people for that matter to just be suspected to have drugs, be violent, there’s this thing that ppl feel like they need to WATCH YOU because you’re black and “look a certain way” nobody does that with whites that’s the last thing on peoples mind & the list goes on and on
@@legoat8818 that's false. Do you understand crime statistics or do you believe them to be racist?
@@younggeezer8232 do you believe crimes that don’t get reported? Because they get easy pass? That’s exactly my point “statistics” tell you the whole thing. If I speed and get a ticket and get put into the system & u speed and don’t get a ticket and don’t get put in the system are those stats 100% accurate then?
Is that the definitive proof?
From the few videos I have seen from this professor, I like how he pushes his students to think beyond the “socially acceptable” to what is real. Life is complicated and nuanced. There is no broad brush that can cover everything.
Wow .. the professor has to put in so much effort to molly-coddle the students to put their feelings at ease in order to get them to actually think critically for once in their lives.
I think they’re also afraid of the audience and maybe speaking against the orthodoxy 😢
This class should be online with the videos off and students given random numbers. You’ll get the critical honest feedback you’re seeking.
They just parrot what they are trained to. " I am more privileged" But why? "Because I am white", yeah but why? They don't understand the mechanics, just the term.
And probably to keep his job. I am surprised the DEI groups havent intervened by now.
We need a college professor like this on every campus to combat the crazy social justice warriors out there ........ Love this class and this professor
He’s a good professor but he’s still missed the Mark. White privilege has nothing to do with economic status it’s also social status. That’s the reason why Maya I can say that she still less privileged then her counterpart who grew up lower middle class. This is not a hard concept to understand.
@@moneygrowz, growing up lower middle class in the United States is the best place in the world to grow up. If working towards a goal and applying yourself there's no reason why anyone can't be at least middle class in the United States. Just takes a little grit, determination and elbow grease. The amount of privilege ones has is not a clear indicator of what they will become well into adulthood ........ Anyone making this claim is full of pity and excuses
@@moneygrowzI'm glad I will be able to teach my children to never play the victim game. They are mixed but will grow up with privileges I never had a child. Will my daughter at 8 years old have to hope I killed a deer so she can eat? Will she be concerned about if she will have clothes? The fact you minimize everything to the shade of skin determines privileges in life is alarming. The fact Maya even said there is a gradient of privileges and it is based upon darkness of skin and gender shows she was taught to be a victim all her life. You expound this belief too. It's dumb. It serves no purpose. It's intellectually lazy
I can imagine these students don’t feel free to speak the complete truth of what they think. Sadly, our “leaders” who are largely responsible for setting the tone of the country are more concerned about keeping us divided for political purposes than they are in making our country the inclusive melting pot it was meant to be.
Agree with you 100%
Weird that none of them fear if being filmed on camera
It's not our political leaders who set the tone. It's way more diffuse than that.
@@incognitotorpedo42It may be more diffuse but it’s all still in the service of the same ideology. If you’re in Hollywood making a movie meant to influence people’s perceptions about a political party or particular race it’s still political, whether you’re a politician or not.
I'm a white man who grew up in a financially challenged family... I know what it means to be poor, I lived 6 months with no electricity and spent 5 on the street getting treated like junkie because I had no money. If I have white privilege... Can someone teach me how it works please? Who thought about me while I was half starved and so sleep deprived I actually hallucinated?
Everything is relative.
You have a "privilege" to be able to compare to be poor vs being middle-upper class (even if you didn't spend too much time being poor & outcast).
I grew up in Soviet Union.
I was "privileged" b/c my parents were "middle" class.
My mom didn't have winter boots or jacket.
She would ask our "rich" neighbors to loan her a winter jacket or meat.
My mom would send me to ask the neighbors for bread & salt....
Still, my parents would give me a banana or orange or cold cuts & chocolates ... like once or twice a year.
So relatively to others we were doing fine.
My aunt used to have a huge collection of the Science Fiction books.
My mom was a piano teacher.
My dad was an Engineer & taught me programming & electrical ... & sports....
So I was lucky.
That's why I was able to immigrate.
Privilege doesn't mean you have inherent advantages because of your race. It just means you do not have any disadvantages because of your race.
Nope. Privilege is LITERALLY about advantages. It isnt the absence of anything other than misery or hardship. Let's not try to play semantics and subtlety change definitions, please.
From Oxford:
Privilege-- a special right, advantage, or immunity
granted or available only to a particular person or group.
@@ignoblesavage5559The defintion the other person gave is also correct. Please give examples that being white in America is a DISADVANTAGE, solely for being white. The majority of politicians, CEOs, billionaires, & law enforcement are white Americans. How did that happen? There are many different privileges. However, white privilege is in fact the reality that being of a Caucasian phenotype isn’t inherently an obstacle to success.
Someone is always going to have it better than some. That doesn't mean that you are privileged.
It is when EVERYTHING is set up in your favor. Black kid caught with the SAME amount of drugs as a white, kid gets sent to jail ... white kid gets sent to rehab. I worked with addicts for years and 90% of our court ordered clients were white with no criminal history even though they had engaged in stealing, prostitution and a number of other things .. the black woman ALL had criminal records for doing the same things.
True, also depends on the context
Yes it does lol
money is privilege
@@csparrow42 No not really.
Keep at it Prof. Maybe they didn't snap out of their trance yet, but you're planting seeds and as those kids continue experiencing life, some will compare those ideas you presented them with what they see and start to wake up.
It'll at least make the awakening less rough. The more entranced you are, the less comfortable the experience of shedding your lie blanket. The thicker the blanket the colder you feel without it
What is BLACK Privilege?
1) Privilege is wearing $200-$700 sneakers when you’ve never had a job.
2) Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance.
3) Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan, which you receive no bill for.
4) Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don’t have a utility or phone bill and where rising property taxes, rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table, which is largely covered by Government Food Stamps.
5) Privilege is having free health insurance for you and your family that's paid for by working taxpayers who often can't afford proper health coverage for their own families.
6) Privilege is having multiple national organizations promoting and protecting just your race alone -- that are subsidized by federal tax dollars.
7) Privilege is having access to a national college fund that supports only one race.
8) Privilege is having a television network that supports only one race.
9) Privilege is having most of the media news networks refuse to cover incidents wherein one race (one-eighth of the population) commits 50% of the crimes.
10) Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, without worrying about calling off from work and the consequences that accompany such.
11) Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or pre-school you don’t pay for.
12) Privilege is being able to vote in many states without showing a driver's license, voter ID card or other credentials -- just because your race claims they should be exempt from such requirements.
13) Privilege is being able to riot, loot, commit arson and tear down historic monuments without consequences -- just because you don't like folks such as Columbus, U. S. Grant or even Lincoln.
14) Privilege is being able to get into almost any college of your choosing based on your race, not your grades or merit.
15) Privilege is having most of your life paid for by the working men and women who DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH RISING TAXES AND COSTS!
16) Privilege is getting a 25% boost to your welfare in Biden's term, yet those who worked their entire lives and on social security got 5.9% -- you know, those you now call “PRIVILEGED.”
That'd western privilege not what you're getting at
This post should be copied, framed, and hung in every college in America
Bra lol you not supposed to say it like that
It's hateful shit like this that shuts down conversation and inflames tensions.
Hallelujah and Amen 🙏🙌
Class is something you can read in many cases. What the girl in purple says just isn't true.
Amen. Sometimes you can read it just as the way someone's body moves in the world. Same clothes, same situation. Regardless of race.
100 pct. Nobody does this better than the clerks at a nice jewelery store or Nordstom. It is not the color of the skin that matters when their commissions depend on getting this right. They can spot upper middle class Maya from the white young lady from Philadelphia in a second. Guess who is getting the attention first.😂
Exactly - by the words, clothes and accent it is usually possible to narrow down class quite accurately.
I grew up white and lower middle class. That woman in the middle has 1000x the privilege I had. Especially now. Guarantee she gets the job instead of me if we both apply and I have more experience.
In this day and age, THIS is the stuff that college kids should be educated with. Not Woke nonsense.
Privilege is not about race. It's about wealth.
Going out to work .Saving up your money. Being responsible. Getting yourself a good education having some self-determination and self-respect. So all this is a privilege now. How about having some personal responsibility and being the best you can be. No one should be ashamed of succeeding. This can also be in one's culture. Maybe some cultures need to look at themselves
There’s a very old saying that goes like this l:
“If everyone’s problems were heaped into one pile, most people would be content to gather up their own problems and be content.”
Maya is so lucky to have gone to a high school where you can work hard and get good grades without being tormented and attacked by classmates for "acting white." So she was able to get into Penn State.
$ got her there
Her high school was very likely white.
It's sad that people walk on eggshells on these topics. I'm glad we have a professor that is willing to open up these discussions and challenge people's views.
Thank you to the professor for stimulating them to think.
The most racist thing anyone can say is that “ they have white privileged” they are saying out loud! That they believe their skin color is superior. And for those that are not white and believe in white privileged they are like the black girl in this panel( at 14:50-15:03) she said she wants to be white.
If white privileged is really can someone please tell me why there are so many immigrants that are successful in spite of coming here with nothing and with a language barrier? This is the country of opportunities but many take the opportunity to be a victim and they get what they fight for and what they believe in.
The past has never put food on my table, paid my bills/debts, granted me a scholarship, or given me a job.
Dr Sam, bless your heart for helping these kids.
Go ahead and tell me how privileged I was growing up, working for $1 an hour at a farm, getting up at 3:30 in the morning to milk 100 cows before having to go to school, then going home from school to show up at work for the afternoon early evening milking. I was 14 years old. When I got married at 22, I worked 2 complete shifts at work. 1 shift to support my wife and daughter and another complete shift to pay for my passion of rebuilding older muscle cars. I am now a grandfather who still loves cars, motorcycles, guns and fast computers. I use a tower I built for gaming when Windows XP came out and own a 1993 Z28 with 52,000 original miles. I am not rich but I don't measure happiness that way. If I can pay my bills and have enough money left over to keep up my car. I cut wood all spring and summer to burn my wood stove throughout the winter.
Amen, brother. We stood in the wrong line.
You are privileged when you can have a discussion about other peoples privilege. My cousin works for a saw mill, barely keeps food on the table for him and his adopted daughter with food stamps, has dentures because he couldn’t afford dental care until a charity group paid for his dentures…yup he’s white, but privileged? Nope. He spent so much time in jail and on probation before he got his life straightened out, he was beaten and harassed by the local cops (was drunk on his own property one time and got hog tied and taken to jail for it and then released). He is the poster child for AA now, we are so proud of him. But no, he has the privilege of being alive and being an American. But his privilege isn’t due to his skin color.
"If we are all free, then we are not equal. If we are all equal, then we are not free."
Grew up in a trailer with 4 others. Had to have a job by 9 years old to make ends meet. Always tried to better my self and work harder than everybody. Now own my own farm. One of the largest in the county. Live a beautiful house that we built. Has nothing to do with color but willing to do the work and build relationships that no one else would.
This really does prove that the whole privilege crap is absolutely bull
I don't see how this proved it, but I agree it's mostly bull. Not entirely; I get the concept, but mostly.
@@incognitotorpedo42It depends the context people use privilege if it’s something like right handed people are more privileged than left handed people because it’s easier to find things made for right handed people. It’s something that you can think about then move on but with white privilege its used to divide people.
@@incognitotorpedo42 it proved that if white privilege existed, then there wouldn't be white people in the same position, or worse, than those whom supposedly don't have any
Kids can’t define a privilege but they are sure they have it. 🤦♂️ Good dialogue
This professor is an amazing example of what the majority of our universities and colleges are missing. He promotes thought, asks questions that force people to dig into their beliefs. What a breath of fresh air. GOD bless this prof.
During the entire history of the human race there have been instances of discrimination and slavery. Two countries, in the 19th century, took steps to end slavery. The US and Great Britain. It is remarkable how easily both countries forget their unprecedented decision and I am very impressed with this professors taking these tough ideas to his students for a better understanding.
This man is doing the work that is necessary. We must protect him at all costs.
These are college students? Seriously?
The US seems to allow certain people to have financial security. I'm white, born and raised in the US. As a result of chronic health issues and lack of resources, I became poor. Governments have allowed deprivation to become normalized and I became one of its victims because I was not born into a family with financial security.
It's difficult to watch these students having to need a reality check
It really is. You can literally see them just chomping at the bit to explode with typical woke nonsense. But thankfully this looks like a great school.
@@sandorclegane3658 Yeah, it's Penn State.
None of them were ever able to articulate what exactly white privilege is. The white kids were so apologetic.
It is terrifying these college students view these crazy ideas as facts. Critical thinking skills need to be taught in the 5th grade. I wish one of these politicians would propose that for a change. I took one online college course in critical thinking and it changed everything. Learning how to think critically opened a can of worms and i went down a rabbit hole researching and questioning everything i thought to be true. This sh*t is just crazy. This professor has the patience for it. Bless him!
I'm lighter skin, I'm half privileged 😂😂😂😂
Your black half is actually the privileged side in the media, universities and in the corporate world.
@@pep590 true but not me, one of the students said that.. I should've placed that in quotes
@@makoceans Sorry I missed that. Thanks.
I'm white as hell, but grew up on welfare. That lady's definition of White Privilege-- not being inhibited and just thinking about yourself... totally the opposite of my experience.
Real conversation, well done. I like want you hold. God bless. ♥️🇺🇲✝️
A lot of rich kids that don’t live in the real world
The last woman sprewed word salad without saying anything substantive. She is just mimicking what she was taught without any thought.
I am impressed with this professor and his drive to uncover and teach the truth. Considering how unpopular speaking the truth is to the progressives, I have great respect for the content created by this high resolution thinker. His students are being well served by the instruction.
It feels that these students skirt around actually answering "how" solely based on skin color, not including class or anything else, being white gives you privilege. Still enjoy the discussions and seeing this type of dialogue happening
"Being white give you privilege" ...okay, please explain the privilege you are talking about.
@MrSkarpy I'm not saying that white gives you privileges, I'm saying that the students seem to not take into consideration other factors that would provide one "privilege". They just fall to, being white gives you privileges.
Victom mentality
I'm white and i feel im privileged. I'm working 60 hours a week, I have a lot of physical and mental issues after 30 years working like that but my privilege makes that I can pay my drugs and visits to the doctors and survive stress. The only thing I ask God if he exists is that my kids be not so privileged as I've been or my wife has been. This teacher is absolutely amazing!
I would tell those 40 million white poor people "I think the concept white privilege is a ridiculous concept so don't let it bother you, and if there's anything I can do to help your circumstances, I will try to help, even if it's just to listen."
So, basically it's not just white privilege, it's cultural and socioeconomic privilege based on who you are and where you are at any give time. In other words, there is also black privilege, Asian privilege, Mexican privilege, Arab privilege, etc. "White privilege" is nominal at best, because it only comes into play in very few circumstances, just like all the other "privileges" people have based on their appearance.
Being white has nothing to do with it. It's always been a class thing. Race-baiting is used to distract from class disparities.
You do understand that the entire USA was set up to benefit white people, right? There were laws passed to inhibit the progress of blacks and POC, right?
I've heard it called Majority privilege. It's either class privilege or majority privilege most of the time... not the absolute color of your skin.
I agree, I would even remove the ethnicity, because it become racists.
Only in America can black people have their own exclusive colleges, dating sites, clubs, TV network and government funded agencies that guarantee they get jobs over more qualified people.....and still have the balls to whine about "white privilege"
Do I have white privilege? I had two parents. I graduated from high school where I learned to read and write. Early in my career, an oil-well-performance laboratory hired me because I could do seventh-grade math. (Things like: find the volume of a cylinder.) I have never officially served any jail time. I had prisons (both federal and state) for customers. I can understand how these things give me an advantage over people who do not have two parents, or do not have the ability to read, or have wasted their life in jail; but I don't see how my race affects other people's literacy with either words or numbers, or has anything to do with them spending jail time.
It doesn't, they just need a reason to hate and blame you for their shortcomings.
I agree with you 100%.
Good professor. He did push in uncomfortable ways but the students appear very entrenched. “ you just sound like a white guy that doesn’t wanna get canceled.” Bold..
My grandmother grew up in a Catholic orphanage, she worked her whole life. My mom was born in a Montana mining camp the day the stock markets crashed. She worked with handicap children while my Dad worked on a chicken ranch.
My husband's family were dirt poor, his Dad got sick so he couldn't work. His mother worked in resthomes to help support their 7 children. My hubby went to work to help them out, later he was the first in his family to go to college.
I guess we somehow missed that white privilege thing.
I love listening to his talks. He brings up a lot of relevant stuff.
I love hearing everybody’s interpretation of their experience.
It’s a funny, thought white privilege if it exists or if it doesn’t. I’ve seen white people not get specific jobs because they were white and they need to bring more colored people in. I’m all for balance. Privilege is subjective.
I’m a 48 year old white man and was raised in a biracial house my stepdad was black. Both my parents were alcoholic and drug users, extremely abusive, psychologically and physically. We were poor to wear. My mom had to go get food from the church to help feed us. I had to move out when I was 14 due to the abuse. I am a dyslexic high school dropout that spent my whole childhood in special education.
I am a passive person which all my employers would take advantage of me, because I could not say no, because all I wanted to do was make the peace and make people happy. I had to fight my way in this world. Nothing was given to me.
It takes people not to quit, but to fight for yourself to build a life better than what you were given. treat your loved ones and friends and family with compassion and understanding. Fortunately, I was able to start a small construction company and make a decent living for my family. At the same time, fighting the thoughts of chaos from when I was raised. I was told I was going to be nothing growing up.
I stay true to myself my wife, my kids.
Love everybody.
What a teacher. Tolerating mythical ideas from ignorant students all while remaining calm and supportive, what a great teacher.
This video made me realize how much majority of current universities and colleges need to change their ways of educating the next generation.
White privilege... is a very American term.
Well, America owned and freed slaves in their backyard, which gives a lot of historical context.
@@binaryvoid0101 So did many other countries before America!
@@philpollard6802 No, the Europeans and the British Empire outsourced their slaves to the Caribbean, not in their backyards. So when they were freed, the former slaves stayed in the Caribbeans.
@@philpollard6802 Pointing the blame at other countries when talking about America's history with slavery is a logical fallacy. America has had 246 years of black slavery (1619-1865) and 89 years of Jim Crow segregation (1865-1954). The past affects the present. This is why we learn history in school.
@@binaryvoid0101 America is the only country to ever fight to stop it. 500,000 whites died to free blacks. Now Bureau of Justice Statistics stats show a ton in real today's context.
Interracial Violent Victimization's (Excluding Homicide) Between Blacks And Whites (2018)
Total: 593,598
Committed By Blacks Against Whites: 537,204
Committed By Whites Against Blacks: 56,394
She understood the question, but was unable to answer because her woke ideology didn't allow it.
Martin what's the definition of woke?
@@gregsage-if7yv Good question. What do you think? :-)
@@martinkaarup2847 I'm not sure what the phrase "woke" means, but since you've used it to criticise someone, surely you won't do the humiliating thing of using a word for which you don't grasp the meaning, so could you help explain it?
I am 68 years old and came from a middle class family. I was fortunate in many ways, economically, life style and community respect based on my father’s profession and success. I felt privileged, but I never related it to my skin color/race. My friends and my peers were ethnically diverse and racial concerns, other than the civil rights movement and political climate of the times. My generation tried hard to be accepting of other ethnicities and people from less fortunate economic status. I may have been oblivious, but I never experienced white privilege first hand.
Growing up I experienced episodes of racism towards me from a few black males and Latino gang members targeting me for bullying.
I noticed you usually have a strand of something in your hand when you teach. What is it?
The ironic thing is that “being rich” like in the top 1% is the minority situation.
You have more in common with the people you share a socioeconomic class with than someone in a different class regardless of their skin color.
Sure, people might make assumptions about you based on the stereotypes they associate with skin color or your sex, your body size, the country you’re from etc, but that’s not what is claimed by people who believe in WP. I can understand why people put so much on it.
I wonder if he could have another discussion about having a “black burden”. It’s not that privilege is bad, but things that are put on you, like burdens (above and beyond what’s “normal” for your class), could be argued to be due to some other factor, like race or historical oppression.
I think focusing conversation on white privilege actually does harm to people really seeing the issue of inequality of opportunity due to race or class.
Students can't even put a sentence together explaining their beliefs. Wow
I was really hoping for a better explanation of white privilege beyond white people have inherent privilege.
All I heard was about the advantages of being wealthy
I would push back that Black people as a members of a protected class have privilege. I will relate a story that happened at least 40 years ago here in Miami-Dade County, Florida. A secretary at Miami-Dade Community College was caught stealing and dismissed from her position. She went to the local NNACP office and complained she was dismissed because the administrator was racist. The Woman was reinstated, and the administrator was reassigned to another campus to preserve the image of the college. There are many stories like this, where Black people get a pass on offenses that would get White people in trouble simply because every negative act against a Black person by a White is immediately deemed racist thereby giving Black people Black Privilege. Even the fact that White people are privileged is a form of Black privilege since it justifies anything Black people do as equitable acts of push back against the skewed playing field upon which they exist.
Point proven, few things in life are clear cut and easy.
People can be complicated and they bring that into everything else, in contrast the world isn't complicated at all.
White privilege = majority privilege.
I am minority in my country but rarely complain about that things.
This is THE main thing people never bring up and its so damned simple.
I'm glad someone finally brought up financial literacy. How you learn to handle money and how you personally handle your money will have an affect on your financial situation.
Theo Vaughn said it best “ woulda loved to have me some of that white privilege growing up”
When I was growing up my dad had so much white privilege he got to work 3 jobs(1 full time 2 part time totaling 80 hours a week) just to put powdered food on the table. He had to pay extra taxes on the extra money he earned so the minority kids on welfare could have enough to eat--and we saw them in the grocery store and their shopping carts were full !!!
What happens when "the dominant group" changes? I like that these ideas are being challenged and fleshed out. None of these children know what it's like to be truly poor, and I think they are conflating socio-economic advantage with privilege...for one color of skin, but I commend them for hanging in there and trying to THINK
Changing the dominant group is their ultimate goal considering that intersectionality is a Marxist ideology.
Here's a good example out what happens when the dominant group changes - South Africa. The whites ran South Africa for years and it was a large economic force. The whites saw the change coming and deactivated South Africa's nuclear weapons. The blacks took over in 1990s. Question - is the quality of life for all people in South Africa BETTER or WORSE than it was under white rule, after the blacks took over?
@@reggiekray723that's actually a very very interesting to look at it.
It’s all about how ur parents create a life and have a huge impact on how ur going to grow most of the time
When I was in elementary school, whenever we have somewhat a first world problem, one of our teachers often responded by saying: if you can afford to have three meals a day, you are already automatically more privileged than half of the world (which was true btw), if you have a roof over your head, you have both of your parents, you have a school to attend to, you are on top of the world.
I thought the same exact thing, but this professor/guy keeps saying white privilege, privileged white... so now all white people are bad?
Only one of these students can express themselves in a complete sentence. Well erucated!😅
a concept introduced in last 10-15 years by the Democrats to maintain the plantation 😆
She can’t imagine where and how Maya lives. She would have to live amongst them for at least 3 months to fully comprehend.
I think "Discrimination and Disparities" by Thomas Sowell should be required reading in every high school in America. It really crushes the myth of white privilege.
Wow all three of these young adults would make great lawyers, that was some of the best double speak and avoidance.