Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[Losty]

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Your whole point, as far as I can tell, in this thread has been to cry about how people shouldn't call it white privilege because it's not only white people or all white people who have privileges. And who cares if white privilege is real because we should be talking about all privilege because God forbid I be made to feel uncomfortable by the fact that my life is or could be demonstrably easier because I was born white.


My favorite one (though not necessarily from you) is "I'm white and I'm not privileged".

People don't need to be privileged for this to matter. You don't have to call it white privilege if you don't want to. Every person in this world who is mentally competent enough to make their own choices is responsible for their own life. While obviously there are unfortunate and unavoidable circumstances that do happen, for the most part everyone (regardless of race) has their own poor life choices to blame for their problems. When I think of white privilege I think of leeway in this area. We have more room to fuck up without landing ourselves in prison or killed or so poor that we can't climb ourselves back out of poverty. Life tends to be easier and more convenient when you're white. People tend to make less assumptions of you based on your skin color if you're white. No one ever says "If you don't like being mistaken for a mass murderer you need to reign in your people and get them to stop mass murdering!"  White people are not to blame. We as a whole are not to blame for white privilege, we are not to blame for the existence of racism, we are not to blame for the plight of minorities, and we are not to blame for any individual PoC's poor life choices or personal problems. If you can get it through your head first and foremost that discussing while privilege is not about laying blame, having a discussion with you will become massively less frustrating.

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I decided to stop reading upon the part where you said , the whole point of the thread is to cry about.....

Cool beans! I'll go back to making jokes. Don't ever accuse me of not trying to have a real discussion.