Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #6493 –
I'm guessing you're well aware I never used the label white male privilege. Whatever p!ssing contest you and LP are having over that, leave me out of it.
If you look back at my posts, you'll see I had a go at the privilege rich tennis superstars exercise. I cited 2 examples: Djokovic & Serena Williams. You'll note there's no through line there when it comes to being white males.
As for the notion being a child witness to bombings in your youth gives you lifelong immunity from being regarded as privileged, my counter-example is Queen Elizabeth II who was in Buckingham Palace when it was bombed by the Germans and lived through the Blitz well aware of the toll it was taking on Londoners. She was about 14. Would it be outrageous to consider her privileged? (Edit: Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II's mother, was the one who was present; the then princess and her sister were sent to the country).
No one's suggesting Novak was privileged when he was a child, but he sure is now.
The whole point of being privileged is to have been born into your success, safety and a position of privilege.
White privilege is a social phenomenon intertwined with race and racism.[1] The American Anthropological Association states that, "The 'racial' worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual low status, while others were permitted access to privilege, power, and wealth."[19] Although the definition of "white privilege" has been somewhat fluid, it is generally agreed to refer to the implicit or systemic advantages that people who are deemed white have relative to people who are not deemed white. Not having to experience suspicion and other adverse reactions to one's race is also often termed a type of white privilege.[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
This term doesn't apply to people from the Balkans. His treatment isn't one born of privilege. Have a look at how he has always been viewed irrespective of what you think of him, and at this point ill throw Adam goodes at you and how there is a point of racism to his treatment.
Novak and people who hail from the balkan peninsula in general do not have a warm and fuzzy experience in the western world and have always been viewed as second class citizens to Anglo Saxons.
He may have been granted white male privilege now that he is at the top of Tennis but he has not been given that as a result of being white or male its because he has money and that would apply unilaterally to anyone who went from rags to riches who would automatically be held in that esteem because our society values wealth.
Im calling out what is obviously BS personal bias. I dont see the relevance in quiting a monarch. When Novak was dodging bombs and living without electricity most privleged 12 year olds were watching power rangers and playing with ninja turtles.
Kilian Mpabbe and Paul Pogba are they privileged? Do they have white male privilege even though they are black?
Interesting question.
Finally, because I'm replying to this thread, you chimed in with something I replied to you, and im cognisant that you have not bandied about that term, but irrespective you seem to be continuing your argument. This has become something more akin to validation of LP's point which makes you an associate by default. Someone who boos Goodes not because he was acting like a flog but have joined the voices of racist boos and are similarly racist.
I have not stated that Novak is not a flog here. He behaves in a manner that makes it hard to like him at times, but in this circumstance this opinion has driven public response prior to any real wrong doing on his behalf.