Irish White Privilege......Yeah

Privilege comes from class, not skin colour. To be fair the glossary should replace 'white' with 'middle/upper class' or 'privately educated'.

But they won't do that. Class is what nobody mentions in Ireland.

Whooosh!

It’s not being taught in schools. It is simply asking students to consider what advantages, if any, they may have had, when considering inclusion of a minority, any minority. That is all. The rest of it is intentions that have been projected onto a single worked by dozens of posters at this stage. A classic straw man. And the continual claims that anyone who has not wiped themselves into a frenzy are claiming “white privilege” is pure gaslighting, to use your own term.

It must be great when you can create an alternate version of what you are arguing against. Eliminates any need to actually form a coherent vioewpoint.

A lot of this conversation is going over your head isnt it.

Being white is not is not our fault,, we are more or less the same colour as all other Northern Europeans.

And not so long ago, being Irish might have been seen as a negative in the eyes of some of our nearby fellow Europeans.

So why should anyone now think that being Irish and white now comes with Privilege,, it most certainly does not.

But it may be argued that in the eyes of other non White Northern Europeans, that we do indeed have some kind of perceived Privilege. And again, this is not our fault.  

That is complete bullsh*t. There isn't a hierarchy of under-privilege. The circumstances that any individual faced that resulted in disadvantage are real. Someone who grows up in Darndale on Moyross is not to blame for where there grew up, no more that the asylum seeker form Kharkiv or Mogadishu. The disadvantages that someone faces should be acknowledged irrespective of their background.

Take Kieth Earls as an example - he overcame the under-privilege of growing up in Moyross, a very disadvantaged area of Limerick. However, everyone from the same area did not benefit from the same privileges that he did - e.g - being from a rugby family he was exposed to the community around Young Muster rugby club which gave him structure that others did not benefit from. It doesn't negate his achievements in overcoming his challenges. But everyone who grew up in the same area did not have the same chances he had.

"....White privilege certainly exists. And it’s dripping off this thread. "

thats one of the reasons it shouldnt be promoted, it gets weaponised like above to Other people in a discussion, and its a good idea to teach white privilege to kids of all backgrounds?

Meh, just replacing the Irish Catholic guilt complex with Irish white guilt complex.

Some people just love beating themselves up, let them at it, not my bag.