Learning about white privilege is anti-white, studies prove

[Rostavykhan]

Also, friendly reminder that Donkey Kong, Solid Snake and John Romero all said "trans rights", so cis gamers are cancelled and cis otakus are next. Hail Sobek!

Metal Gear is dead and John Romero is a hack so no.

I remember when Donkey Kong spoke about trans rights.

"ewegh ewewgh!" - Donkey Kong, Gorilla.

[Liriena]

Also, friendly reminder that Donkey Kong, Solid Snake and John Romero all said "trans rights", so cis gamers are cancelled and cis otakus are next. Hail Sobek!

Metal Gear is dead and John Romero is a hack so no.

Not an argument.

[Liriena]

[citation needed]

Not to mention those anime "femboys", more often than not, are trans women written by people who don't quite get how to describe them as such, or at the very least aren't capable of defining their identity in terms equivalent to the technical terminology more commonly understood in Europe and the Americas.

No, they aren't. They're cute gay boys in dresses, it ain't that complex. Quit with the gay erasure.

I'm going to have to admit that I made a really stupid wording choice with the "more often than not", because, now that I thought about it, it is mostly cute gay boys in dresses... or at least ambiguously gay boys.

Not trying to erase them. Just got a bit of a brain fart remembering the sample cases.

[Liriena]

Metal Gear is dead and John Romero is a hack so no.

I remember when Donkey Kong spoke about trans rights.

"ewegh ewewgh!" - Donkey Kong, Gorilla.

"trans right okay" - Donkey Kong

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Metal Gear is dead and John Romero is a hack so no.

Not an argument.

If what I got isn't an argument then what you got isn't an argument :^).

[Liriena]

A lot of trans people on the internet I've seen actually seem to be quite fond of those anime characters, yet hate the word "trap."

I mean, they tend to-

[citation needed]

Not to mention those anime "femboys", more often than not, are trans women written by people who don't quite get how to describe them as such, or at the very least aren't capable of defining their identity in terms equivalent to the technical terminology more commonly understood in Europe and the Americas.

-ah, there it is.
I knew it was coming (because I know your Youtube preferences). Really, this attitude is just Western audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers, which is pretty shitty all things considered. A good rule of thumb if it's not explicitly stated in canon is to see what Japanese audiences see the character as: they have the full cultural context and potentially resources we don't, so checking Pixiv tags can be enlightening.

The only time audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers is when they pull a JK Rowling, but that's an exceptionally rare circumstance almost not seen out of Rowling herself.

With the caveat that you and Crockerland made me re-examine my position, so I'm no longer standing by my previous argument... while I think there's legitimacy to your assertion of "Western audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers, which is pretty shitty all things considered", I think there's also an argument to be made for a 'death of the author' attitude here, even if we run the risk of engaging in a sort of cultural self-centeredness in our critique.

[Proctopeo]

I mean, they tend to-


-ah, there it is.
I knew it was coming (because I know your Youtube preferences). Really, this attitude is just Western audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers, which is pretty shitty all things considered. A good rule of thumb if it's not explicitly stated in canon is to see what Japanese audiences see the character as: they have the full cultural context and potentially resources we don't, so checking Pixiv tags can be enlightening.

The only time audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers is when they pull a JK Rowling, but that's an exceptionally rare circumstance almost not seen out of Rowling herself.

With the caveat that you and Crockerland made me re-examine my position, so I'm no longer standing by my previous argument... while I think there's legitimacy to your assertion of "Western audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers, which is pretty shitty all things considered", I think there's also an argument to be made for a 'death of the author' attitude here, even if we run the risk of engaging in a sort of cultural self-centeredness in our critique.

I think the safest bet there is to treat it as a headcanon or an AU instead of insisting it as fact. And by "safest bet" I mean "literally the only option that doesn't make you a giant asshole".

[Luminesa]

A lot of trans people on the internet I've seen actually seem to be quite fond of those anime characters, yet hate the word "trap."

I mean, they tend to-

[citation needed]

Not to mention those anime "femboys", more often than not, are trans women written by people who don't quite get how to describe them as such, or at the very least aren't capable of defining their identity in terms equivalent to the technical terminology more commonly understood in Europe and the Americas.

-ah, there it is.
I knew it was coming (because I know your Youtube preferences). Really, this attitude is just Western audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers, which is pretty shitty all things considered. A good rule of thumb if it's not explicitly stated in canon is to see what Japanese audiences see the character as: they have the full cultural context and potentially resources we don't, so checking Pixiv tags can be enlightening.

The only time audiences trying to claim they know the character better than the writers is when they pull a JK Rowling, but that's an exceptionally rare circumstance almost not seen out of Rowling herself.

Source on these femboys more often than not being trans-women? I am a man of considerable culture and never really picked up on that. The only one that comes to mind is from Steins Gate. I’ve always figured that they were ccis lads that just liked being fem. I can relate to that, somewhat.

Almost every time, that's precisely what they are. There can be degrees of ambiguity, especially if you take things completely out of context, but it's usually clear if they're just effeminate men.
Typically the "sources" for this "information" are cherry picked quotes, circumstances, or just outright fabrications made by whoever is making the claim.

No, they aren't. They're cute gay boys in dresses, it ain't that complex. Quit with the gay erasure.

Yeah, these people love to erase the gay and those who don't fit into traditional gender roles of dress or act by trying to claim they're "actually" trans.

Because I’m slightly confused, I need a clarification. Are we talking about the difference between “traps” and bishounen guys? Because yeah, there are a lot of bishounen characters who almost look like girls, but they’re not necessarily “traps”.

[Pim Fortuyn]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

[Nakena]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

Go Date her.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

[citation needed]

Not to mention those anime "femboys", more often than not, are trans women written by people who don't quite get how to describe them as such,

Saika Totsuka from Oregairu, trap character whose most famous line is "I'm a boy."
Hideyoshi Kinoshita from Baka to Test, trap character who insists he's a guy.
Hime Arikawa from Himegoto, trap forced to crossdress, definitely a boy.
Rui Ninomiya from Gatchaman, boy who crossdresses.
Haku from Naruto, effeminate boy.
Mariya Shidou from Mariaholic, boy who pretends to be a girl at a Girls' School.
Felix from Re:Zero, boy who crossdresses.

These are some of the more famous exemples

Also, friendly reminder that Donkey Kong, Solid Snake and John Romero all said "trans rights", so cis gamers are cancelled and cis otakus are next. Hail Sobek!

Metal Gear is dead and John Romero is a hack so no.

What does Konimes running meteal gear into the ground have to do with this?

Solid snake said Trans rights. Konimi fucking mgs up has nothing do do with anything.

[Anagonia]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

Allow me to save you the time:

white privilege
noun
noun: white privilege
inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice.
"I'll be the first to acknowledge that I do benefit from white privilege"

I think what you meant to say is that there is no real basis for this being used in our society, except to restrict the rights of those with white colored skin.

EDIT:

Here's an additional definition:

White privilege is the societal privilege that in some countries benefits white people over non-white people, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

That was from wikipedia, the prior definition from your friendly Google. I want you all to think real hard on this, and that actual colleges of "higher education" teach this. Whether or not you buy into the fact that a white man born several decades, nay even a century, after his ancestors first set foot somewhere is somehow responsible for your poor life choices, that's your gig. We're all individuals. My problem as a white individual is constantly being harassed, daily, for that based on my outward appearance. I was grown to move beyond such petty bullcrap, supposed to be the generation that extends that hand in friendship. None of that happened, and it wasn't because of me being the evil white demon.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Saika Totsuka from Oregairu, trap character whose most famous line is "I'm a boy."
Hideyoshi Kinoshita from Baka to Test, trap character who insists he's a guy.
Hime Arikawa from Himegoto, trap forced to crossdress, definitely a boy.
Rui Ninomiya from Gatchaman, boy who crossdresses.
Haku from Naruto, effeminate boy.
Mariya Shidou from Mariaholic, boy who pretends to be a girl at a Girls' School.
Felix from Re:Zero, boy who crossdresses.

These are some of the more famous exemples

Metal Gear is dead and John Romero is a hack so no.

What does Konimes running meteal gear into the ground have to do with this?

Solid snake said Trans rights. Konimi fucking mgs up has nothing do do with anything.

Neither does Solid Snake saying trans rights :^)

[USS Monitor]

Hey, guys... And girls and any other gender categories that anybody identifies with in this thread... Why are we talking about trans rights and anime characters?

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

Hey, guys... And girls and any other gender categories that anybody identifies with in this thread... Why are we talking about trans rights and anime characters?

I think it was... I forget.

[West Leas Oros 2]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

Hate to pull a Godwin's Law on you, but i'd hardly consider any of this at all comparable to Nazism.

[Cappuccina]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

Not that I buy into the notion of "white privilege", but things like that are pretty delicate matters, you have to remember for quite sometime anti-nazism did tend to, perhaps unintentionally, reenforce anti-German sentiment.

[Bear Stearns]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

So being white is the equivalent of being a Nazi now?

[Slongs]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

So being white is the equivalent of being a Nazi now?

That's what they want you to believe

[Liriena]

I met some Hispanic girl on my campus during a fire drill recently. She was wearing a MAGA hat and holding up a sign which read “white privilege is a myth” as everyone congregated in the vicinity waiting to re-enter the building. I asked her why she thought what was expressed on her sign. To my dismay, she could not come up with a comprehensible answer and simply got annoyed.

From my personal perspective not enough of us have a good idea of what white privilege is. Most people have either a vague idea or dismiss it offhand. I think we could all benefit to read a short article or study about the idea. The case for halting it because it may make people “anti-White” is the same as arguing that the Nazism shouldn’t be taught about because it makes people anti-German.

So being white is the equivalent of being a Nazi now?

Nah. Being white is the equivalent of being a communist

[Slongs]

Nah. Being white is the equivalent of being a communist

No u

[Drongonia]

White privilege DOES NOT exist, at least not where I live in New Zealand or anywhere I've seen in the west.

I can only give you the local example:

"We" as whites make up the majority of the population (>70%) and yet we get nearly nothing out of it. Just because we go to prison less and can hold down a job, and take care of a family, we're privileged? Maori who are the so-called indigenous of the land, have special schools with exclusive scholarships, tribal tax exemptions, extra social welfare and family tax credits, medical initiatives targeted at their specific issues (while bowel cancer, the biggest killer of 50+ white men is basically ignored by the government). Maori youth will often be let off the hook for crimes in exchange for them attending special classes which do nothing. Maori are claiming land rights left and right, saying that we tricked them with the totally unfair system of currency exchange. People are being forced off public land after it's sold to Maori because they don't want anyone accessing it.

Let's look at the white and Asian groups for a sec.

We've got the highest rate of suicide, highest rate of YOUTH suicide, worst alcoholism rates, lowest government dependency ratio (meaning we don't get our tax $ worth), highest tax per capita, most crimes are committed against us and much more.

Say it with me here. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WHITE PRIVILEGE.

[Slongs]

White privilege DOES NOT exist, at least not where I live in New Zealand or anywhere I've seen in the west.

I can only give you the local example:

"We" as whites make up the majority of the population (>70%) and yet we get nearly nothing out of it. Just because we go to prison less and can hold down a job, and take care of a family, we're privileged? Maori who are the so-called indigenous of the land, have special schools with exclusive scholarships, tribal tax exemptions, extra social welfare and family tax credits, medical initiatives targeted at their specific issues (while bowel cancer, the biggest killer of 50+ white men is basically ignored by the government). Maori youth will often be let off the hook for crimes in exchange for them attending special classes which do nothing. Maori are claiming land rights left and right, saying that we tricked them with the totally unfair system of currency exchange. People are being forced off public land after it's sold to Maori because they don't want anyone accessing it.

Let's look at the white and Asian groups for a sec.

We've got the highest rate of suicide, highest rate of YOUTH suicide, worst alcoholism rates, lowest government dependency ratio (meaning we don't get our tax $ worth), highest tax per capita, most crimes are committed against us and much more.

Say it with me here. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WHITE PRIVILEGE.

That's a fact that should be commonly known by everyone. Of course white privilege doesn't exist. Only a racist would claim it exists just to silence anyone who dares say it doesn't

[LiberNovusAmericae]

I think the concept of "white privilege" was created to knock white people down, rather than actually helping minorities rise up.

[Gormwood]

So what should we call it when white people are much less likely to be brutalized or killed by police during a traffic stop, or are much more likely to get a loan approval or a callback for a job application especially over the phone?