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Oprah’s net worth is 2.5 billion dollars.  Must be nice belonging to the billionaire caste.

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Rudolph Harrier
Rudolph Harrier
Thursday, August 6, AD 2020 9:54pm

An exercise in leftist sophistry I recently witnessed on another site:

White people have privilege because even if you are white and completely destitute, you still haven’t experienced hardship because of racism.

For you see, it is impossible for there to be racism against white people, since racism requires a historical context of racism.

And that historical context can never be developed in the future, since that would require racism against white people to occur, which we’ve already shown to be impossible.

Thus it will forever be the case that even the poorest white will be more privileged than the richest black, and hence the black should always be considered first when determining who to help out.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Friday, August 7, AD 2020 2:57am

Ted Cruz is right. The truth is there is little racism in America. Our cultural separations result from education, economic success, and religion to a lesser extent.

Black folks are often looked down upon because of their childlike ignorance, welfare dependence, poverty and, most important, criminality. White people having the same characteristics are also treated the same way.

Trebuchet
Trebuchet
Friday, August 7, AD 2020 4:13am

A lot of good whiteness did for the Irish during the potato famine. Oinkra doesn’t look like she has missed a meal in a long time

Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Friday, August 7, AD 2020 6:09am

The Klan burned a cross in front of my immigrant, Catholic and Polish, non-English speaking Grandfather’s house. That’s some serious white privilege there. The only solution, of course, was for him to work his way to success, which he did.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Friday, August 7, AD 2020 7:43am

Come on now, Oprah has a point. If it weren’t for racism, she’d be a trillionaire, not just a lowly billionaire.

ken
ken
Friday, August 7, AD 2020 8:12am

Greg, my guess is, if Oprah had been born white, she’d have twice the wealth. I think that’s how it works.

ken
ken
Friday, August 7, AD 2020 8:29am

How did we whites, with our collective white privilege, fail to hold Oprah back from success?

Dale Price
Dale Price
Friday, August 7, AD 2020 10:51am

“White privilege/whiteness” are the worst formulations you could give to the question of what smart Americans called the “badges of servitude.”

For starters, it hand-waves away 31.5 million people who are living in poverty, decaying communities and increasing drug abuse. It’s a sort of bizarro world boot-strap argument: “You’re still privileged, rural crackers. Unlike those millionaires in their gated communities over there.”

It’s an obscene mockery.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Saturday, August 8, AD 2020 5:35pm

Right on Dale Price

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