Well I have talked to someone about my "white privilege" and have been absolved from all past aggression against everyone.

Can't wait to share this when asked. Think we will become friends?

A woman named Peggy Hubbard, retired Navy officer, took the Black Assholes, er, I mean, Black Lives Matter movement to task for protesting the death of thug who drew upon police with a stolen gun and was killed when the police had the unspeakable gall to shoot back. This, while ignoring the death of a nine-year-old girl Tamyla Bolden who was killed in a drive-by shooting while in her room doing her homework at around the same time. And best of all, the drive-by shooters targeted the wrong house; their intended target was not Tamyla Bolden's home.

As you can imagine, she's gotten a lot of hostile feedback from the Black Assholes Who Think They Matter movement, calling her "Uncle Tom," "Aunt Jemima," "white man's bed wench," and other choice names. (I don't know what they are because Fox News and CNN bleeped them out during her television appearances).

In one her television appearances, she had the temerity to say there is no white privilege.

And some of the black YouTubers took issue with that assessment. A lot of commenters said they were actually with her until she said that.

So, I responded on YouTube, and I'm sharing it here, because I think it's relevant. The rest of this post is my YouTube post, with nothing following.

There is no such thing as white privilege. There are no laws that support whites that do not support everyone.

But let's talk about black privilege...

You have laws that require employers to hire a certain number of you. But is there a problem if an employer hires an all-black work force? Does the law have a problem with that? Nope.

There are an infinite number of social programs, both legally sanctioned and private, to benefit black people. Ever hear of a WHITE scholarship?

Black Entertainment Television is perfectly fine. But White Entertainment Television would be "racist."

You are permitted to call us "honkeys," "crackers," "white bread" and a host of other colorful racial epithets, but if we call you "nigger," you seem to feel that outrage, and in some cases violence, is a perfectly justifiable response. That's YOUR word to call each other and we're not allowed to use it. Not that I care to, except in a reasonable discussion of racial epithets where the word is pertinent. And anyone, white or black or any other color, who calls anyone a racial slur is an ignorant jackass. And that includes blacks who call each other niggers or niggas (like there's a difference).

You freely adopt styles of dress, music, etc. of whites, but if whites adopt black staples, "WAAAAAH! Cultural appropriation!" (Newsflash: there's no such thing as cultural appropriation. Deal with it.)

You protest police brutality, yet ignore the VASTLY larger number of deaths due to black on black violence. You also ignore the fact that in police encounters, a white person is 1.7 times more likely to be killed by a cop than a black person.

You kill FAR more whites per capita then whites kill blacks, then have the colossal NERVE to claim you're oppressed. Ditto with black on white rape, as opposed to white on black rape. In fact, you commit a HUGELY disproportionate amount of ALL types of violent crime, but, of course, that's all the white man's fault, isn't it?

You seem to feel that you have the right to disrupt white speakers, like Bernie Sanders or Milo Yiannopoulos, even threaten these people. Can you imagine the unearthly SHRIEKING that you would do if white demonstrators DARED to interrupt a black speaker? And don't tell me you don't sanction this! I don't see YOU protesting it.

You seem to enjoy the benefits of lower expectations, even in personal conduct. Racist bitch Bonita Tindle assaults a white male student for wearing dreadlocks and the school doesn't expel her. Can you imagine what would happen if a white male accosted a black female student telling her it was "cultural appropriation" for her to straighten her hair, especially if he actually put his hands on her?

You seem to feel that a Black Lives Matter is completely justifiable, but the minute the KKK (sans robes) tries to do a White Lives Matter counter protest, they were violently assaulted on sight. Don't get me wrong. The KKK is disgusting, but the members have a right to demonstrate peacefully. And you do NOT have the right to assault them on sight.

You black supremacists have more double standards than whites ever even THOUGHT of inflicting. You seem to think (INCORRECTLY!) that racist is something only whites can be. But blacks supposedly CAN'T be racist. THAT is ignorance on steroids.

So then what happened?

Damn Patrick! Was this before your workout? Whew!

Bet the sheeple are still hiding in their safe spaces and I doubt if the #BLM looters even read it, but I think it's time we simply adopt this as our standard response PERIOD.

Might as well state the obvious with or without snark. We've got nothing to lose at this point.

(They really don't get that do they.)

No one has a monopoly on racism; no one is completely free of it. Everyone is born racist. It's hard-wired into our primitive brains. It must be overcome by education, cultural influence, and self-determination.

In the we-change-the-meaning-of-words land, racism is only about a power imbalance (ignoring for the moment the fact that most white people are not powerful).
In the real world, fomenting and expressing hatred against some group is racism. It can lead to people getting killed. It led to genocide in Rwanda.

Craig Loehle:

In the we-change-the-meaning-of-words land, racism is only about a power imbalance (ignoring for the moment the fact that most white people are not powerful).

I haven't researched every sociology website I could find on the subject, I have looked and I think I know where this asinine idea came from.

I found it on a video by Franchesca Ramsey of MTV's "Unplugged."

Franchesca Ramsey is, to be blunt, a dullard. I would match the intelligence of any poster on this blog that I have seen (and I've been here since this blog was created) against hers any day, and I'd win.

After viewing her wikipedia entry, I discovered two things. 1) She apparently has no post-secondary education whatsoever, and is therefore not a recognized expert on anything, yet MTV presumes to give her a spot where she lectures us on social issues. 2) She's a comedian. Apparently there's a new genre of comedy; the type that doesn't make people laugh. She's not funny, or even entertaining.

But what do I know? I fail to see the humor in what passes for comedy nowadays. For example, I watched the movie "Something About Mary," from beginning to end when it was in theaters. I didn't laugh or even smile. Not once. Some of what passed for humor was cringeworthy and some of it outright disgusting.

In any case, Franchesca Ramsey maintained that we weren't going to pay any attention to that big bad dictionary definition of racism. Because it's the just the dictionary. That dictionary that says that racism is the belief that traits are innate to race, making one race superior to another, or extreme prejudicial feelings toward someone on the basis of race?

What does the dictionary know?

And we were going to resort to Sociology for the correct definition of racism. Franchesca Ramsey's definition of racism was a severe oversimplification of the sociological one, but technically correct. She said, that racism was basically about power.

Like I said, that's technically correct, but the poor dear concluded that since it's about power, black people can't be racist because they've never been in power.

Like I said, she's a dullard.

She might have, for instance, understood that she was discussing sociology, but I doubt she, with her brain cells numbering in the single digits, even knows what sociology is.

When we discuss racism in the sociological sense of the term, we're referring to institutions, both legal and social, which favor persons on the basis of race.

But to conclude from this that only people who have benefited from those social institutions could be racist is to misunderstand what makes an -ism into an -ist.

Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist. Applying Franchesca Ramsey's logic to this, this would mean the Bernie must be the beneficiary of democratic socialism as well as its supporter. Since the U.S. is not a democratic socialist republic (yet), that would mean Bernie couldn't possibly be one.

There could be no communists in the United States because the U.S. has never been a communist country.

So, the term "racist" as it applies to sociology is merely someone who favors the idea of social institutions that discriminate based on race.

So the members of Black Lives Matter cannot be racist? On the contrary, there are racist in every sense of the term. They are prejudiced against whites and they favor institutions that discriminate based on race. The black race, anyway. They want special favors based on race.

The United Negro College Fund is a racist institution. Where's the United Caucasian College Fund?

Franchesca is right about one thing, but for the wrong reason. She said that "reverse racism is not a thing." She said that because she's forwarding the idea that blacks can't be racist.

But the reason that "reverse racism is not a thing" is because it's just racism.

Any group that wants to have a private "safe space" for people who agree with them should be allowed to do it -- provided they paid for it themselves and didn't just impose it on a public place such as a university.

Freedom of association is an absolute right.