[spodek]

> * The more white and privileged you are - the more predictable your life is.*

That's a quantifiable claim, especially in response to an article about a gulag system that killed and tortured many white people, many of whom you may have called privileged before they were imprisoned.

I would love to see your justification. Seeing a scatter plots with whiteness and privilege on the horizontal axis and predictability on the vertical would seem persuasive, though I'm not sure how you'd quantify the variables.

Can you cite a source?

[heavenlyblue]

Gulag system tortured political dissidents, who could or could not have been rich or privileged.

Those who were privileged in the Soviet Union have always had a better hand. Don't have a job? Here's a job for you. Your brother's got cancer? We'll find the best doctors for him. Can't find a TV set for your nice flat? Here's a guy you could call. Your idiot child has been speeding and killed someone walking down the street? Well, we may speak to those policemen so that his life would not be destroyed by such a small mistake.

I understand why you picked on the phrase "white and privileged", but it has nothing to do with the substance of my statements.