@raphjd The article makes absolutely no reference to race at all, so what I'm saying is where does white privilege come into the story? Or white supremacy? To my eyes, this is another example of people taking what is in itself a tragic event and injecting it with personal bias.
@raphjd said in 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Video Of Her Getting Jumped By School Bully’s:
Everything to you people is "white privilege" and/or "white supremacy".
Stop right there. Stop with this "you people" attitude. There are things we agree on and things we don't. That is life. Language like that is clearly intended to silence someone when they question something and it does little to promote debate, which I thought was what this forum was for.
@raphjd said in 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Video Of Her Getting Jumped By School Bully’s:
She was white and her attackers were black.... When you clearly can't make something about race, you demand we not talk about race.
Not every bad interracial interaction is down to race. Sometime people just do bad things. Immediately alluding to a racial cause can mean that other more relevant issues get swept aside and not discussed.
@raphjd said in 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Video Of Her Getting Jumped By School Bully’s:
Hell, even when everyone involved in an incident is non-white, you people make if about "whites are evil".
I have NEVER said anything even vaguely along those lines, either in this forum or anywhere else. Don't try to put words in my mouth.
@blablarg18 Perhaps my comment might have been phrased better. However, nearly every time I have questioned or asked for an explanation of his reasoning from @raphjd in this sub-forum he has repeatedly and consistently sidestepped anything people ask, refusing to engage with anyone who challenges his assertions beyond telling them they are liberal puppets because they're not simply accepting what a random person on the internet has told them. To the contrary, blindly accepting these things is what leads to people becoming puppets. And yes, some of his replies to previous comments have been rude, abusive and downright crude, so I was trying to say I'd like a direct answer without the usual deflection.
Now if we could return to the issue at hand, I'm going to admit to being rushed and just taking the Wikipedia definition of white privilege which reads "White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances."
As such, my original question still stands. A girl got bullied and committed suicide. There's probably more to the story, but we only have the article posted above to go on. Where in this article does any privilege come into this?
