Still waiting for my ''white privilege'' to kick in. Everything ive ever gotten or my family has gotten has been through hard work and earned.. Anti-whiteism is a disease.
Black and non-black people of color work just as hard as white people, in fact given the overwhelming amount of racism poc have to deal with in predominately white countries, I'd say they work harder and yet they still succeed less and to a lower degree across the board. You and your family work hard, good for y'all, but being white makes your goals more easily attained as you have an entire society catering to you. You can be born with all kinds of cards stacked against like you like physical disability and poverty; you still have it easier than the POC who are in your exact position.
And white privilege isn't limited to the USA, it's very much a global phenomenon. The only person a white individual will be treated lower than is the native of a non-white country...But they'll be treated better than any other person who isn't white and isn't strictly a native of said nation. White privilege is the fact that you are never socially penalized for being white (being killed by someone who hates white people is not a social penalty or oppression, it's simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time). If you could make a list of Goods and Bads "Being White" is always on the Goods, next to "able-bodied" and "smart" or "good-looking" or whatever.
Nothing like demeaning someone's achievements based on the color of their skin
How would you, lostrib, articulate the social reality of white privilege while simultaneously not demeaning the individual achievements of white people? Something tells me you don't even believe in the former.
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