(April 30, 2016 at 11:23 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: You don't have to feel guilty... to make the fact that white privilege exists true. There is overall less prejudice against whites, if only because overall white people tend to be in the majority... the same thing goes for other sexualities besides heterosexuality, for example. There is more prejudice against homosexuals than heterosexuals, for example; there is more prejudice against white people than other races. The privilege belongs to the groups where there is relatively less privilege against. Minorities don't get the privileges. White minorities are a lot rarer. You have to believe that in this world you're privileged to be born white. That's just a basic fact.
I'm guessing it's a typo where you said there is more prejudice against white people than other races?
There's so many blanket statements in your post here. What do you class as a minority? World wide white people aren't in the majority, in places like Europe, Canada, Australia and so on whites people are in the majority but there's populations within these places where whites people will be in the minority.
This isn't an advantage you're born with as a white person it's an advantage you get if you happen to be born around a population where you're in the majority.
Which also isn't necessarily true because sometimes a minority in a population might still have more privilage than the majority if you think about variables such as military power, political power and wealth.
Like a Chinese billionaire going to Africa to start a mining company or something might be one of the only Chinese people in the local population but will just hire lots of security and guards and they're unlikely to be racially abused.
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