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    myopicprophetFelice León
    8/15/18 3:01pm

    Oh here come the #NotAllWhitePeople comments.

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      Vanguard Knightmyopicprophet
      8/15/18 3:14pm

      Dont forget the mentions of Chicago and misleading crime stats.

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      Raineyb1013Vanguard Knight
      8/15/18 3:19pm

      Someone is bound to claim not to benefit from white privilege because they grew up poor. 

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    MWCFelice León
    8/15/18 2:40pm

    The problem with this analysis is that by calling these things privileges:

    “What white privilege means, for white people, is that their whiteness hasn’t been a social, political, professional, financial or legal hindrance. They have the privilege of the benefit of the doubt, which manifests as the privilege to just be.”

    Is that everyone should be free of their race being a “social, political, professional, financial or legal hindrance” By calling that a privilege suggests that no body should be treated with the “benefit of the doubt”. Where as in truth I think we all believe everyone should have the benefit of the doubt.

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      Raineyb1013MWC
      8/15/18 3:21pm

      No. By calling it by its proper name,  white privilege, you point out that the rest of us are not being given the benefit of the doubt that we all are entitled to.

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      Mud's Not Yer Buddy, PalMWC
      8/15/18 3:57pm

      I dunno if this will help you figure it out;

      I’ve spent half of my adult life in East Asia as an ESL mook. There is a heap of Grandma Brand Casual Racism there, but being white means that most of the racism is of a sort I can use to my advantage. And while these days black expats are mostly enjoying the same ability to take advantage of that casual racism (we all “look foreign”) there are still large companies that their policy of only hiring whites is an open secret.

      If my resume is up against some American who bleeds apple pie and baseballs but just happens to be of Indian descent? Good luck to them. My blinding pinkness wins. Even as a visible minority in a foreign country I still get options other people don’t

      *That* is what White Privilege is.

      I mean, you’re right. Everyone should be getting that benefit of the doubt. But that’s not the world we live in.

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    STLOrcaFelice León
    8/15/18 6:48pm

    Oh, this ought to be good.

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    Minimum MausFelice León
    8/15/18 5:57pm

    I’m white and I had to work for everything I have! I’m not privileged! I don’t even own a yacht!

    Seriously though, I’m reaaalllllly tired of the people who keep conflating “privilege” with “never having struggled”. Words can have more than one meaning. I tried having a conversation with someone on Twitter who seriously said everything (except the yacht thing) in my first paragraph, and when I mentioned there are studies that show that white privilege is a very real thing, he replied back that “anyone can do a study to prove anything.” At that point I signed out of the argument because there was no point.

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      TheWorstofTimesMinimum Maus
      8/16/18 2:37am

      A fine observation.

      I’ve worked pretty hard, and still do.

      I wasn’t nearly aware enough of what white privilege was for far too long.

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      Minimum MausTheWorstofTimes
      8/16/18 10:23am

      Yup. I’ve never been carded in the street, I don’t get followed around when I go into a store, never turned down when renting an apartment, and I’ve been able to interview for almost every job I’ve applied for. Does that mean everything’s been easy for me? No. But I can still recognize that there are people who can’t say the same things.

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    etanowFelice León
    8/15/18 5:52pm

    Connfronting my own white privilege is like deprogramming from a cult. It turns out that so much of what I believed about myself and the world was just not true. I was living in an unreality where most people are good and the world is my playground. Learning how blind and brainwashed I’ve been has not always been easy. But I don’t want to live in a house built by slaves on a foundation of bones. That’s what my world seems like now. I am still confronted regularly with the fact that the world is not as safe as I thought and I am not personally as innocent or special as I thought. I'm just a white person in Amerikkka. 

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      Nih Guh Rohetanow
      8/15/18 9:00pm

      white guilt makes you stupid

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