Daily Topics - Wednesday April 8th, 2015
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Hour One: What do Libertarians think of Rand Paul for President? C. Edmund Wright, Breitbart / WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost…Again / PLUS, what white people don't get about 'white privilege'
Hour Two: REVEALED...The True History of Libertarianism in America - Mark Ames, Pando Daily
Hour Three: Is America 'rejecting moral boundaries'? Dr. Alex McFarland, Center for Christian Worldview and Apologetics
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There is no such thing as "white privilege". There is a profound disparity between the way white people and black people are treated generally in our culture, but the source of that disparity is not white privilege. It is not a positive for white people; it is a negative for black people. I don't believe that is an unimportant distinction. The absence of a negative is not the same thing as the presence of a positive.
I am 65 years old, southern, male and white. For several months I have been thinking back through my life and trying to remember and identify a single event in my life when something good happened to me because I am a white male. I cannot think of a single one. It's true that I haven't had to deal with the kind of discrimination black people have to deal with, but again, that's not the presence of a positive for white people, it's the absence of a negative.
I know somebody is going to say that white people just don't understand white privilege, but that's because racial discrimination is something that doesn't happen to them. It's something that happens to black people; that's why white people have no personal experience of it.
Whenever somebody mentions white privilege, what they are really talking about is black dis-privilege.
Ron
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"Police" does not come from the word "policy", but they both come from the Greek word for "city"--"polis", with the stem "polit-". This is also the source of "politics". This is parallel to anything like "civic" or "civil", from the Latin word "civitas", which was slurred over the course of centuries into the French word "cité", leading to the English "city".
I've never figured out if the countryside was just left ungoverned, or if it's because the Greek city-states (and the city of Rome) were the highesl level of government, or if there was some other reason why the city was the source of these concepts.