Benutzer:Tavin/weißen Privilegien

Als weiße Privilegien (oft auch engl. White privilege) werden Vorteile zusammengefasst, die Menschen genießen, die als Weiß gelten. Dabei wird Weiß nicht als Synonym zu hellhäutig verwendet, sondern als vorgestellte Herkunftsgemeinschaft (vgl. Rassifizierung). Geprägt wurde der Begriff von Peggy McIntosh

• 1. “ I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race mostof the time.
• 2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasinghousing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
• 3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral orpleasant to me.
• 4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I willnot be followed or harassed.
• 5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and seepeople of my race widely represented.
• 6. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I amshown that people of my color made it what it is
• 7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials thattestify to the existence of their race
• 8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece onwhite privilege
• 9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my racerepresented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit withmy cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone whocan cut my hair.
• 10. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.
• 11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people whomight not like them.
• 12. I can swear, or dress in secondhand clothes, or not answer letters, withouthaving people attribute these choices to bad morals, the poverty, or theilliteracy of my race.
• 13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.
• 14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit tomy race.
• 15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.
• 16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of colorwho constitute the world’s majority without feeling in my culture anypenalty for such oblivion.
• 17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much i fear its policiesand behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.
• 18. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge,” I will be facing a person of my race.
• 19. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can besure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.
• 20. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls,toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race.
• 21. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feelingsomewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered,unheard, held at a distance, or feared.
• 22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
• 23. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of myrace cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
• 24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not workagainst me.
• 25. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negativeepisode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
• 26. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have themmore or less match my skin

• weiße Privilegien seien Deckungsgleich damit Teil der Mehrheitsgesellschaft, beziehungsweise der dominanten Gruppe zu sein.Dass Sozialstrukturen ihren Mitgliedern Vorteile bieten ist nicht problematisch, sondern ein Zweck von ihnen.
• Es gibt viele Dimensionen der sozialen Ungleichheit, ein Aufrechnen oder Vergleichen verschiedenen Dimensionen könne zu einer "Opfer-Kultur" führen in der das Individuum als ultimative Minderheit aufgeführt wird.
• Das "sich bekennen" zu eigenen Privilegien ähnelt einer Beichte, die selbst Entlastet, aber die strukturellen Probleme nicht löst. http://www.migrazine.at/artikel/das-problem-mit-critical-whiteness