Piobaire wrote:
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Systematic/Institutional racism exists, white privilege does not. It implies that every white person has an unfair advantage which they do not.
You can't possibly be serious. Every single encounter with any authority figure I've ever experienced in my life, from teachers and school principals, to employers and supervisors, to bank managers and loan officers, to realtors, to police officers and judges, I have materially benefited from being a white male, as have you.
I do not have the ability to judge your life and what advantages you have had but I have been been given some unfair advantages, been treated fairly, and descriminated against for any number of reasons and that is probably true in varying degrees for most people. If you are black the odds are much more you have been traited unfairly more often than if you were white. If I speed and a cop pulls me over and because I knew his brother he does not give me a ticket I received an unfair advantage, a privilege, same if he likes my shirt. If he gives me a ticket I got what I deserved, if I was pulled over because I was black in a white neighborhood he then shoots me because I made a move that if a white person had done would not have resulted in my getting shot I was discriminated against, same concept if I was shot because my stimming or lack of eye contact was seen as threat.
I am not saying that plenty or even most white people have not received privileges and unfair advantages because they are white. I am saying stop confusing being treated fairly with bieng priviliged.
Automatically assuming every white person because they are white is privileged is assuming things about a person based on skin color. Thus the current weaponized concept of white privilege is by definition a racist concept.
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