Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[paulpablo]

I would have to disagree. It doesn't cloud the issue, it simply detracts from what the agenda is for some. For them, there exists two ethnic groups in the USA; the blacks and the whites. The inbetweens are insignificant and it has shown.

When you're treating cancer, focusing on trimming the toenails doesn't strike me as terribly useful. The fact that he's so wedded to such an approach strikes me as odd and raises questions in my mind.

I'm not saying that the others are insigificant. I'm saying that there are different dynamics at play in those racial relationships because they weren't, you know, kept legally as slaves for several hundred years, for the most part. And they weren't the object of specifically-targeted laws regulating where they could live, eat, sleep, and even relieve themselves. The racism Asian-Americans, Native Americans, and others endure has different antecedents, and different results. Lumping them all together would, as I wrote earlier, cloud the issue.

Also just to reiterate I also think that lumping groups together is precisely what the phrase white privilege does.

It lumps together all white people of all nations, religions, circumstances, economic statuses, health levels and age.

And lumps together all non white people which as you pointed out is irrational since black people and Asians do have totally different circumstances and so often enjoy the privileges some people would say are white privileges.