(April 29, 2016 at 1:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It does, however, point the way to understanding why puling a small minority out as a counterexample and saying "therefore no white privilege" is inaccurate. Simply because another subset of the American populace has done well doesn't mean that whites don't enjoy privilege inaccessible to blacks and Hispanics.
True it doesn't mean that whites don't enjoy priveleges inaccessible to blacks or Hispanics but it doesn't make it a white privilege to enjoy these privileges if white people aren't the only group enjoying these privileges.
What a white privilege would be is an advantage, right or immunity granted to only whites and to no one else.
That's what a privilege is and whites privilege especially I'm guessing must be focused on whites unless the title is just misleading.
So what advantages or rights or immunities do whites have available that Asians, Indian Americans, Maltese Americans or Taiwanese Americans or rich black or Hispanic people don't have?
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