RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 17, 2016 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2016 at 1:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:What I'm saying is that there's a term called white privilege while not all white people have these privileges that white privilege is supposed to entail so I'm questioning to what extent it actually exists.
I'm also stating that I don't think it's a valid way to make a phrase to use a racial adjective then add the word privilege to the end of it to imply that the people of this race are inherently advantaged wherever they go, whatever they do. The reason being people live individual lives and have inindividual experiences and some of these people no matter what race they are will be excluded from these so called white privileges.
Jeus christ Pablo, lol. Yes, by default, a white person in the US has white privilege. You're commenting about some white people not doing well (somewhere....say..Sudan, idk?)....and that's not at all relevant to the discussion. Even the whites who aren't doing well...have white privilege. These are those privileges assigned to you merely because of the color of your skin. Mostly, we don't actually think about it, no ones going around handing out or revoking cards. We're not intentional including or excluding anyone at a race privilege board.
That would be overt racism. White privilege is the subtler effect.
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