LogFAQs > #927464912

Yes, it exists, but how much of it you're aware of is going to depend a lot on where you live or what people in your immediate social circle do, tbh.

Just for one example... if you take two identical copies of a job application and one has the name "Brad" and the other one has the name "Damian," the latter one will be rejected for hiring significantly more often than the former, despite the only difference on the documentation being that one has a name more associated with black people.

FinalFantasyVII posted...

Branding the lack social adversity white people face as White Privilege was a huge mistake.

I agree. It makes people take this stuff way too personally. In general poor terminology like this makes it difficult to talk about subjects with people not already very familiar with them and you usually end up spending the conversation trying to divorce their interpretation of it being some sort of personal attack from the topic at hand because if you can't, they'll just say it doesn't exist at all.

It's like when talking about how toxic masculinity may result in emotionally neglected boys committing suicide more often and someone runs in and starts losing their mind over how maleness isn't bad. They're getting torqued out of shape over the term rather than the substance.
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Hi