Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[paulpablo]

The 19 pages in the interim have been nothing but.  Own your comments, or don't bother making them.

The "certain circumstance" in our discussion....is simply being born in the US, today.  Under that circumstance, if you happen to be born white, you enjoy white privilege.  Poor whites enjoy white privilege, rich whites enjoy white privilege.  Law abiding whites enjoy white privilege, criminal whites enjoy white privilege.  White privilege is ubiquitous....so long as you are white or taken to be white.  Our prison stats show it, our economic stats show it, our social stats show it...there is not a single dissenting fact to the reality of white privilege.

The definition of privilege is an advantage that only one group has.  

Asians earn more than whites, they're imprisoned less than whites, they're shot by the police less than whites, achieve more academically than whites.

So as a group white people aren't privileged in terms of earning money, being imprisoned, being shot at by police, academic achievements.

That pretty much is the sum of what I've been talking about that I think you disagree with.  The definition of privilege and how that relates to racial groups in the US.

I'll agree with white privilege existing in situations where it's been statistically shown that white people have an advantage over all other races which varies from situation to situation.
I don't have a problem with someone saying white privilege exists in a situation as long as they can show that white people have the advantage over all other races in that situation, ALL other races, not just black people.