Joe Rogan | The Flaw with the Idea of White Privilege w/Naval Ravikat

What's a very weird progressive argument, and as it pertains to race is always a weird one, right? Because white privilege to me, although you could look at what they're saying on paper, like, yes, yeah, I'm sure there's more black people that are harassed by the police. I'm sure there's more black people who are treated suspiciously by shop owners and the like. But the problem isn't the people who aren't treated poorly. The problem is the people who treat the people poorly. The problem is racism. The problem is not people that didn't ask to be born white or whatever they are and they don't get harassed. So this idea of white privilege or male privilege or whatever it is, that's not the problem. You're just looking at someone who's not a victim of this particular problem that you're highlighting. But you're not looking at the perpetrators of the problem. You're making people perpetrators by simply existing and having less melanin in their skin or having their ancestors come from a geographical cage. Yeah, it's racism by another way. It's a sneaky way of being racist. Yeah, and then they say you can't be racist. It's not racist because you're white. That is hilarious if you can't be racist against white people. That one, I follow this. That's a variation of the whole still while I hate you argument. Stop struggling while I'm hitting you. But it's just so silly. You've just completely changed what racism means. What's hilarious is mostly the people who are yelling racist are not the minorities. When I look on my Twitter, my social media or on my news, it's white on white violence. Virtue signaling. Yeah, it's white on white violence. What's mostly going on is it's elitist whites, blue state whites, college educated whites beating up on high school educated whites, blue collar. It's a white collar versus blue collar war that's going on and the rest of us are just kind of watching like, oh, that's kind of interesting. Well, it's also a side effect of the ability to broadcast, right? Like everyone with a Twitter handle has the ability to broadcast. Everyone with a Facebook page has the ability to pontificate and have these long rambling these huge statements that people put out when you read them. It's like, how much time did you put in this? Do you put that much time in your kids or your job or your life or your future or planning for your, you know what, how much do you work out a day? I mean, are you just these some, I've read some people's Facebook posts. I'm like, this is a preposterous amount of effort that you put into saying virtually nothing. Let's say humans are being creative. Yeah. Let's say an AI do that. Well, that's true. It is creative. It's creative in a very odd way, right? Because it's creative and that they're trying to elicit a response from people and they're trying to raise their social value or raise their position on the social totem pole. It's signaling and it's easy signaling because it's the kind of thing that everybody has to agree with you on because nobody wants to be seen as a horrible person. Yeah. And if it's hard to make the nuanced arguments against, then this is just kind of go along. Right. Well, it's also, some of it is so cliche that it seems like, I know one guy who poses as a woman on Twitter, but he does it obviously. What is the name? Tatiana McGrath? McGrath. Yeah. Hilarious. Used to be Godfrey Elwick. Yes. Oh, is that the same guy? I think so. Yeah. That's hilarious. They killed his account. I think it's the same one. I'm not 100% sure. For pretending to be transracial. That's right. They didn't. He basically says all the crazy stuff that people on the left say, but he says the craziest version and kind of just shows how it's okay. I saw a tweet from recently just said or her that it's not okay to be white. Yes. That was the whole tweet. And then some people agree. But it's so close to what they say. It's so close that it's like the most artful form of subtle parody. Well, if you replace in half of these things, if you replace the word white with black or Asian, watch the lynch mob descend upon you. It's a strange time in that respect. There's a famous old saying that if you want to see who rules over you, see who you're not allowed to criticize. Mmm. Excellent. Yeah. That's so true, right? Yeah. That's so true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.