I don’t know about you, but if I’m ever anesthetized and under the surgeon’s knife, I would prefer the chap on the other end of the scalpel be focused solely on correcting my ailment, stitching me up, and most importantly keeping me alive.  Ah, but I would prefer that, wouldn’t I, inherent bigot that I am?

Thankfully, the luminaries at Ohio State University now offer a course in which aspiring health professionals, particularly those lacking melanin, are invited to...wait for it...confront their privilege!  Because if you’re an anti-racist, then that’s what you want your surgeon worrying about.  His privilege.  Not your open chest. 

According to the Ohio State University course, this privilege “protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color.”  Gotcha.  So not only am I protected from minority violence, but I am subtly being violent and hostile toward minorities.  That certainly would explain my nasty habit of roaming the Chicago streets in sub-zero weather, noose and bleach in hand, ever on the prowl for the unwary Subway-frequenting gay actor of color. 

The documented evidence may suggest otherwise.  The FBI statistics illustrate that whites are over five times more likely to suffer violent crime at the hands of blacks than vice versa.  But statistics are racist.  Whom are you gonna believe, the wokerati at Ohio State University or your own gaping bullet wound? 

Progressives approach scientific questions in reverse order from how we flyover rubes do.  We would look at the success or failure of an individual and apply the scientific method to determine the causes thereof.  Progressives determine the cause (i.e., privilege or oppression) beforehand and then cherry-pick their way backwards to shoehorn whatever evidence, real or imagined, into the hypothesis.

Any evidence that contradicts their hypothesis is ignored or vilified.  Because the scientific method is racist.  Hence, the conclusion that whatever success I enjoy has nothing to do with hard work, persistence, intelligence, honesty, and integrity and everything to do with an invisible and unconscious yet omnipresent racism that only the progressives themselves are capable of detecting.

This Freudian “if you deny being racist, that’s just proof of how much you’ve repressed your racism” approach cannot be falsified.  Nobody can prove he’s not racist.  This is what the scientific world refers to as a non-verifiable hypothesis, and it cannot be used as evidence to verify a claim.  This extends to our legal culture as well, as the burden of proof falls on the accused to prove innocence, not the accuser to prove guilt. 

Such ideas are, of course, racist.

But since the left has predetermined that my “privileges” are solely responsible for any and every one of my advantages in life, I was curious to examine these privileges within the context of the social structures around me.  To be honest, what I found shocked me, and completely validated the left’s claims against my entire race.  Here are but a few of the privileges that I, as a white person, enjoy:

White privilege!  Is there anything it can’t do?

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