[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

The point isn't whether "Asians are good at math" can be correct or not situationally, the point is that one is based on an in-born trait while the other is a social trait.

So observing that Asians have slanted eyes (displaying an epicanthic fold) is racist in your books, regardless of context? Pointing out that the Irish tend to burn and blister at the slightest exposure to sun is going to be racist? Trying to understand where the lines are drawn here, because there are so many people that scream racism for the slightest reasons.

Racism focuses in on "biological/in-born" traits (positive or negative).

Traditionally, yes, but not always these days. Almost anything the SJW set doesn't like is lumped in as being racist. This site has seen plenty of screams of racism where none existed and only based on the minority was feeling marginalized or attacked. Some of the most obviously racist comments have come from some of those minorities as they defended what they believed to be disenfranchisement. So while you can say that everything is focused on "biological/in-born" traits I would argue that perceptions and feelings also come into the mix and drive charges of racism.

"White Privilege" is the result of hundreds of years of historical precedence, subjugation and and media domination, not a result of a biological trait. Pointing out that White people have cultivated a world in which they benefit from being culturally blind to injustice is not Racist, just as it isn't Racist to say that Asian societies put a higher impetus on Education.

I acknowledge your definition of white privilege but white privilege is not there for all white people. The "system" does not work for all white people which is why the term is considered a cooked up concept. I tend to believe that white privilege exists to some extent, but also recognize that there are more poor white people that the system doesn't work for, and more than all other races. When minorities throw white privilege in the face of white people they themselves are making a predetermination of benefit based solely on association toward "biological/in-born" traits - you're white so not only does the system work for you, but you need to apologize for it. That is racist by your own definition and the very definition you use for white privilege falls apart. "White privilege" does not benefit all white people equally nor does it guarantee them benefit. So when it used as a generalization to isolate, blame a white person for some action, or insult their place in society, it can be racist and just as ugly as any comment about someone's eyes or hair or a statement about their culture.