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Its kinda like racial bonuses in Video games.

Some races or classes might be better suited as a Tank or as DPS.

Except in real life you cant necessarily choose if you are a tank but forced to tank anyways.

so lets say White People are the Tank and Black People are the DPS. Not exactly intended to do a whole lot of Tanking so they gotta work a little bit harder to stay alive while White People have an easier time.

Sorta like that.

The boss they are tanking is society as a whole.

Its about how society treats groups differently. In our example because White People are the Tank they have, overall, a generally easier time. Still difficult because Society sucks and all that. But you also dont have people randomly calling the guards to interrupt your tanking over dumb shit.

ok. Eh...

basically the idea of White Privilege is how people are treated based on race.

If if you are white youll always be assumed to be legal, even if you are speaking Spanish.

If you are Puerto Rican and speaking Spanish there is a good chance you will not be assumed legal.

The literal difference is one is a literal citizen and one is some bloke from Ireland. Oh and one is white and the other isnt.

Who is more likely to be harassed for speaking Spanish? Is it the White Dude from Ireland or is it the Puerto Rican?

Who is is more likely to have ICE called on them? Probably not the Irish Lad.

Both of them are walking down the street carrying a computer monitor they own.

Which one do you think will most likely be accused of stealing if the cop pass
by?

its not a hard concept too understand. The first 170 or so years had black people had less then human. With another 100 years where they were just treated as such legally. A hundred years following the civil war full of terrorists bombing and lynching and burning down black churches and neighborhoods.

a lot of this shit lingers. The Civil Rights Movement and the era of Jim Crow laws are well within living memory. At no point did it all just go away over night.

Of course in each scenario our Irish Pal could have been harassed, accused, and examined by ICE. Well within possibility. Absolutely.

It has nothing to do with wealth. Its so easy to go there because we have also labeled the wealthy as being Privileged. It also isnt about whether or not you have had hardships or not. Society is one hell of a boss that kicks everyones asses from time to time.

Its about how society treats us vs them. Whether its on an individual level(person to person) or laws or whatever.

Thats all.

Also the whole Check your privilege thing is about acknowledging that the reason the cops slapped you on the wrist while hauling another person to jail for the same crime might be because of White Privilege.

or something like that. Its not about guilt or shaming or anything like that though.

But this is GameFaqs and odds are I typed this for nothing.