Well, like I said, I think fewer people would be disagreeing with you if you'd couched your argument like that in the first place, instead of a) being fairly contemptuous of the idea of white privilege, which doesn't leave people coming from my perspective predisposed to cut you much slack, and b) appearing to genuinely make the argument that because there are non-white people who are racist, white people are being unfairly scapegoated for racial problems in American culture today. Which comes across to me as a fairly self-serving argument. I sympathize, because I can't say that white liberal guilt is a whole lotta fun (and I only have a half-dose), but even so.
Also, you are severely underinformed if you don't know that minority activist groups aren't fully aware that they have to promote inter-minority friendliness as well as combating institutionalized racism.
Common sense is culturally bound. What seems common to you is unfathomable to someone else. College is only a good place to learn cultural sensitivity if there's a basic level of cultural diversity on campus in the first place; you're conflating book-learning with culture-learning.
I'm not saying that you haven't been wronged because you're white; if I've understood the situation correctly, you have been. Where we disagree is that you seem to think because of a bunch of (almost certainly white!) hospital executives making a boneheaded move, that the whole premise is flawed. Consider, in addition, that your non-white colleagues have been wronged as well - they're being deprived of the opportunity to educate themselves because those executives assumed that only white people would need the manual.
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Also, you are severely underinformed if you don't know that minority activist groups aren't fully aware that they have to promote inter-minority friendliness as well as combating institutionalized racism.
Common sense is culturally bound. What seems common to you is unfathomable to someone else. College is only a good place to learn cultural sensitivity if there's a basic level of cultural diversity on campus in the first place; you're conflating book-learning with culture-learning.
I'm not saying that you haven't been wronged because you're white; if I've understood the situation correctly, you have been. Where we disagree is that you seem to think because of a bunch of (almost certainly white!) hospital executives making a boneheaded move, that the whole premise is flawed. Consider, in addition, that your non-white colleagues have been wronged as well - they're being deprived of the opportunity to educate themselves because those executives assumed that only white people would need the manual.