Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[BrokenQuill92]

But seriously, fuck the idea that a black man should feel complimented for 'overcoming cultural influence'.

Then perhaps we should stop unduly rewarding black people for what happened centuries ago to their ancestors.

Rewards? What exactly are these rewards you speak of?

[Silver]

Rewards? What exactly are these rewards you speak of?

Affirmative Action.

[Edwardo Piet]

Non-minority-race privilege is very real.

The Caucasian race is a minority in very few counties.

Therefore white privilege is very real in the vast majority of countries.

Suck it privilege deniers.

[Silver]

I don't believe it.

I am a white guy and I have never received privilege over a minority.

I have been homeless, living in a car, and still black people were doing better than me.

[Edwardo Piet]

Your logic sucks.

"I'm white and I can think of many ways I haven't been privileged over black people I have known who were better off than me: Therefore white privilege isn't real".

Your logic just plain sucks.

[Silver]

If you knew how to use logic....

[Edwardo Piet]

Guess what: If you don't want it to be true that something isn't real, that doesn't make it actually not real.

Kind of ironic that you're an anti-theist but you display lots of theist logic quite often

[Edwardo Piet]

If you knew how to use logic....

I do unlike yourself.

[Silver]

I do unlike yourself.

I have yet to see it, but I shall concede that you believe you do logic.

[Regina]

There are no biological races - race is a social construct.
What about someone who considers themselves Latino or black but they pass as white. Do they have white privilege?

I would argue "yes" because there's still a perceived whiteness about them. If you're mixed but you look flat white, people who don't know you are going to see a white person when you're walking along the street. Also "Latin" isn't a race, it's a culture.

It also works the other way as well. You can be someone with mostly/totally European ancestry who is therefore socialised as a "white European", who is not percieved as white based on looks. My grandfather was "white" as a Maltese person, but ask the average British person what they'd think he was based on looks, they'd probably think he was a carpet merchant from Gaza. That perception is a reality, regardless of what he might have claimed to be or whether it's a social construct.