Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[Regina]

@BrokenQuill (I tried to quote you but it didn't work) - The sad thing is this seems really common. The LGBT "community" does alienate a lot of other identities as well as racial minority LGBT people.

The amount of white gay men I see who still don't realise how much of a dick they look when they right "no blacks, no Asians" across their dating site profiles, and use their little "preferences" to justify blocking minority gays from LGBT safe spaces. It's rampant.

Then these same people question why "LGBT black pride" is a thing... 

I saw one guy a few weeks ago up in arms because BLM had "the audacity" to (briefly, not even all day) stop the Toronto Pride parade and make requests for more/better representation of trans and black LGBT people within gay spaces. This guy seriously thought that was such an unreasonable request.

Cmon now...you can't really have a problem with people honestly expressing their sexual preferences and attractions?  If I had a dating profile...I'd be pretty upfront about rosy cheeked angular blondes needing not apply......   .  I mean, a person could interpret that as some sort of weird anti white reverse racism or plantation complex...or maybe it's just because I spent my formative sexual years surrounded by jewish snowbirds, positively drowning in latin heat...?

The only safe space a person is denying someone by being open about what they like, is the one between their legs.

This is the thing I'm tired of explaining to other gays in this discussion; there is nothing wrong, in itself, with having a preference in dating. The "problem" is when you are just being a cunt about it and being downright nasty, writing people off before you've even seen what they are like or what they look like, and doing it so distastefully like this;

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And by "gay spaces" I meant when non-white LGBT are actually treated badly in or even blocked from gay bars and pride events. It does happen very often.