Was Homer Simpson the perfect example of White Privilege?

[Michael9100]

Although I like this show, I think Doug and Carey are good examples. Doug worked at that fake UPS (I think it as called IPS) and Carey was a secretary, yet they owned a nice house in Queens. Didn't Deacon and Kelly live in an apartment and they couldn't afford a house for a while?

Inheritance and they had the wife's father living with them.... Not only that but Doug's parents were supportive as well..... Deacon and Kelly had a somewhat dysfunctional relationship and couldn't keep two incomes under one roof.....


^^^I mean.... this does kind of play out in the real world

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

No doubt about it.

Dude is a Nuclear Engineer and doesn't even have a degree?

George Bush was President...

 

[Malt-O-Meal]

Inheritance and they had the wife's father living with them.... Not only that but Doug's parents were supportive as well..... Deacon and Kelly had a somewhat dysfunctional relationship and couldn't keep two incomes under one roof.....


^^^I mean.... this does kind of play out in the real world

Yeah usually for white people. Most black people aren't inheriting much of anything. Look no further than all the government welfare given to white people which allows them to pass wealth down. It's how the white middle class was created, such as Levittown in NY. It's the classic example of white privilege. A mediocre white couple who live well despite not having college degrees or any ambition living off inheritance. And it wasn't until the later episodes that Deacon and Kelly had marital problems.

But I'm not going to go too deep. This is a light thread.

 

[IWunD3r]

Although I like this show, I think Doug and Carey are good examples. Doug worked at that fake UPS (I think it as called IPS) and Carey was a secretary, yet they owned a nice house in Queens. Didn't Deacon and Kelly live in an apartment and they couldn't afford a house for a while?

It's new york... these apartments be costing more than homes.

 

[Malt-O-Meal]

It's new york... these apartments be costing more than homes.

And houses in New York cost more than apartments. Houses in NYC are expensive, especially ones that are unattached with a yard, basement, and a garage.

 

[Clayton Endicott]

That Frank Grimes episode literally talks about how he doesn't.
And how he just walked into the plant the same day they were hiring and got the job

Yeah. That oooold episode were he prevented the nuclear meltdown shed some light on it too. It was some program called Operation Bootstrap that hooked the fukk ups with a job in the plant after high school.

 

[DrX]

frank was a loser tho....how did this dude everything right and still had a dry dikk and was under paid...homer figured the game out....he didn't give a fukk...and he was detached from this society...so everything he got was a bonus...he was just happy with a sandwich and sitting on the couch

 

[KravenMorehead™]

I don't think this episode was making a point about white privilege since Frank is also white. They wrote this episode because they wanted to see what happens when a relatively normal person goes into the Simpsons universe and has to deal with Homer's antics.

"Homer's Enemy" was more about protagonist privilege. Homer is able to do all these amazing things and live a decent life despite being dimwitted and having no special talents. They even made the other characters in the episode a lot more forgiving of Homer's flaws, which pissed off Frank because he didn't understand how someone like Homer could be living better than him. Simply put, Frank saw through Homer and didn't see a caring, big-hearted family man. He just saw a reckless idiot who does whatever he wants without consequence.

But seriously, this episode is a GOAT candidate.

No disrespect my nikka, but how old are you? you look like your best friend is a teddybear

 

[BushidoBrown]

yo looking back at this shyt after years...this a truly dark episode
real on so many levels
but how can it be about white privilege, grimes was a cac too he was just a super lame cac who was honest & played by the rules but got nowhere because of it

EDIT:
nikkas was even laughing and clowning his existence @ his funeral

 

[sfgiants]

Some of The black characters on the simpsons were better off than homer
Doctor hibbert
That judge
Carl also works at the plant


I don't remember one bum ass black character on the show the way Barney was a drunken slob or how moe was a depressed loser who couldn't get laid

 

[Ironman]

Homer has mentioned it a few times on the show so yeah he knows being a white adult male gives him priviliges. One time Lisa and Grandpa were complaining about nobody listening to them and Homer came in and said something like "I am a white male age 25-55 everybody listens to me." They go at some serious issues in a funny way when they can.

That "if you were in any other country in the world you would be dead by now" is a goat insult for anybody you know who is coasting through life in this country. Even as a kid I understood that fukking ether he hit Homer with.

You're a fraud! A total fraud!

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

No doubt about it.

Dude is a Nuclear Engineer and doesn't even have a degree?

Safety inspector

 

[Serious]

Some of The black characters on the simpsons were better off than homer
Doctor hibbert
That judge
Carl also works at the plant


I don't remember one bum ass black character on the show the way Barney was a drunken slob or how moe was a depressed loser who couldn't get laid

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

Yes, Marge is Creole.

No she's not you fat cac

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

No doubt about it.

Dude is a Nuclear Engineer and doesn't even have a degree?

i'm a network engineer and i never attended a single class nor have any certs and i'm wesley snipes black


you can talk yourself into anything with a lot of personality and charm