To support the premise of white privilege, I have been asked, what about height? Don’t tall people have privilege?
White privilege is a lie furthered to oppress and enslave the mind
In unthinking societies, sure, might (enabled by size) makes right. There (in ignorance), size matters. However, I see cognitive privilege as the great equalizer/enhancer. See Napoleon Bonaparte (5’6″), Julius Caesar (5’7″), Alexander The Great (5’0″), etc. Clever people all, I imagine. Western civilization, so long as it lasts, values problem-solving.
Also, homo sapiens (possessing a prefrontal cortex and reason) outlived the Neanderthals in Eurasia (Neanderthals having bigger brains yet less developed prefrontal cortex). Thinking enhances adaptability. Neanderthals did have a huge occipital region of their brain, however. This must have given them better sight, which is predictable because they lived in caves without lanterns.
Finally, sometimes, size is a negative. Homo floresiensis (a homid like us) evolved from taller hominids to be around 4 ft tall. They were a species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia. Nature selected a small size for that homid due to a process called island dwarfism. Small people eat less, I suppose. In other words, on Flores, height was not a positive.
The Decline of New Thinking — It’s Not My/Our Imagination
Innovation in all fields of research and invention has entered a uniform, precipitous decline since at least 1945 — A recent Nature article sheds new light on our decaying scientific institutions.
