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CyricZ posted...

The fact that you think "being treated well" is "normal" makes plain which perspective you're operating from.

Thought I made it pretty clear that I'm white but good detective skills there chief
CyricZ posted...

You just don't like it being called "white privilege" because it puts the spotlight on white people. Which it should. Because white people built the system.

They built the system that made minorities second-class citizens as well so this logic doesn't really hold up

The sad part is that people generally understand the point I'm making, it's just that they, like you, would rather tribalize and hate a particular section of the population. You generally hear PoC say things like "I shouldn't have to go out of my way to seem non-threatening when walking down the street near a white person", rather than "White people should have to go out of their way to seem nonthreatening like I do". This demonstrates an understanding that it's not a privilege, it's the baseline. Everyone else is just disadvantaged.

The system wasn't built with white privilege. Slavery was the institution, nonslavery was the default. Not discriminating job applicants based on their name is normal, discriminating is the aberration. Etc.

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