Do u believe that White privilege actually exists ? 💡

People are wrong to take this personally because its a systemic critique.

If I am a middle income white guy from a middle income background, it doesn't follow that I have fallen into that position. Even moderate success requires hard work. However, I have had advantages.

Just look at the numbers. Any numbers. Then tell me why there are different patterns of outcomes based on race and class.

The people hating on this post are wrong to either:

1) Take it personally. Its not about you and advantages you have inherited are not your fault. It's about looking at systemic problems so we can look for systemic solutions.

2) Name outlier examples to prove that white privilege doesn't exist. 'But Obama...' Well yeah but he is the only non white president in American history. Also, there have been zero female presidents and only one Catholic. The rule matters more than the exception. If anyone thinks that a black man could have bragged about grabbing p🙀🙀🙀🙀 and still got elected then they are kidding themselves.

A lot of people hate the idea of white privilege because they see class as more important but the point is that both are important. To believe otherwise is to fall for a divide and rule tactic which only benefits the rich and d powerful.

No because when you dig deeper you find they refused to take their hands out of their pockets, rushed the cop, refused to show ID, or many other things. Skin color has little to do with it from the law enforcement side. It may be reverse racism causing civil unrest and them having to deal with the consequences.

White privilege just means your problems are caused by reasons unrelated to your race. It's a shockingly simple concept people love to pretend to be confused by.

Are you saying my accomplishments are not genuine because my skin color is white?

Yup, and so does white guilt, white rage, along with reactions to all of the above, which can cause their own problems and feed the fires even more.

IMO, we don't live in a race neutral society, and while it might be nice if we did, pretending we've gotten there already is pretty simplistic and as toxic as blaming everything on racism.

We have racial, religious, economic,educational, and host of other social and cultural divisions, which I think shouldn't be ignored or exploited.

Police brutality and sentence disparity are not just racial problems, but ignoring the racial component is foolish and makes things worse.

Everyone is born/given situations. Class/money privilege is probably a much bigger factor as far as success in life is concerned.

I believe true evil really exists.

For this one particular example you state yes. But you are not mentioning the amount of money given to kids of color that is not available to white males.

Goto a science museum. Count the number of black families that are there bs Asian and white. Museums must be racist.

Of course it exists, and has existed a long time. It is hard to claim that being white doesn't give you an automatic advantage in the US.

Oh, yes. It does. Even here! Not nearly as bad, but it's true.

And then, because it is known to happen, when a black man gets stopped anywhere because, it is usually is a man and it usually is a black one, the guy is sure the cop is going to give him a hard time, there's an attitude of "WTF NOW?" And there off to the races. The cop get offended and so makes assumptions about the person's guilt, immediately, and becomes extra aggressive, and from there, it escalates. Even if the black man doesn't say anything, but gets an aggrieved look, exactly the same look, I might get, if I were stopped for any reason, because he's black, and male, he will be presumed to have a guilty reason.

However, it's not just black men that piss the cops off when they get angry at being confronted. They really hate getting dirty looks. And in truth, it's really hard not to give cops a dirty look when you get stopped, no matter your gender or the colour of your skin. In general, cops have a dirty job, and even if they go into the profession for the right reasons, it's not long before they become jaded and frustrated.

It truly is a vicious cycle. Cops expect the worst from certain demographics, and therefore behave accordingly, and because cops behave more aggressively with those demographics, they react accordingly.

[i]Please, note. I'm not talking for anyone els here. These are not statistics I'm quoting, nor am I repeating things I've read, or heard. This is my own personal opinion, based on personal observation and talking to victims of police prejudice.

And I'm talking about my own small corner of Canada; nowhere else. You may disagree, and I won't argue, as I haven't experienced anything, anywhere else. [/i]

I think the groups of people you can't criticize are the ones with all the privilege and sway in society. Doesn't have to relate to race necessarily either.

Certainly not. What is completely ignored is the reasons the person was stopped and the reaction of that person to being stopped. My instinct is to get along with the police and try to help them do a thankless job. As a result I have not had so much as a traffic ticket for over 40 years. A friend of mine has difficulty with police and I watched him get his face smashed into his truck door when he refused a simple lawful request by the police.

I believe that people react differently based on their race or culture and that may bring them into conflict with other people. Then neither side looks inward, both expect more and worse next time, and unfortunately more and worse is what seems to happen.

I guess it depends on what you call white privilege.

Some seem to see it as something granted, given. Like special rights or privileges.

I don't see that as true.

However of we see it as the freedom from certain hassles and troubles, then that's certainly true.

I don't worry about a lot of things others do.

Yes but its not like they get away with everything. I get harrassed by police regularly & I look like every ethnicity but African.

I think that divide and conquer exists.

No I do not. I definitely do not have any special treatments for being white lol.

I don't really understand the term.. but all the things you say are true; not opinion, not conjecture but fact, so something is clearly very wrong.

Yes. No question.

No I don’t.

Yes I do.

Nope

Yes.

The phenomenon exists, but the term has been abused by both sides.

Over the past few years? Since its inception.

Yes, white privilege definitely exists. It's why laws like affirmative action have been needed. It's why vastly more black people sit in jail for drug offense even though drug use is roughly equal among blacks and whites.

It exists here in Australia.

Yes

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If that's all there is to go on, no. I've been criminally mistreated by cops as well

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