(GOP) White Privilege

In case you are still confused:

"White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because 'every family has challenges', even as black and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'fuckin’ redneck', like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll 'kick their fuckin' ass', and talk about how you like to 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug."

I wished the writer had addressed the economic inequities here as well, rather than paint with such a broad brush. Money, regardless of ethnicity, tends to transform "irresponsibility" into "challenge".

Nevertheless, a shrewd read on the GOP bullshit machine.

via Sunset Sea