White Privilege?

[Dill]

(07-09-2018, 02:32 PM)jj22 Wrote: I bet they can run around with their guns at the local store and pig roast and nobody feel any type of way about it. But let them be black and run around with guns out like that there in the same community...... That's an example of what people mean by white privilege. It's not clear cut there are white people mistreated too, it's what society accepts as ok that they wouldn't for minority races. People don't really know they are doing it (much like institutional racism). It's deeply embedded in American society.

It's why you see Bill Cosby in jail and Trump/Bill Clinton voted POTUS.

A Black man who is either admitted (Trump) or an accused (Bill) sexual predators by multiple women would never be elected as POTUS. Never. If you (not you specifically Bfine) think otherwise then there's some naiveté going on.

Actually, I doubt Bill Clinton or any other white/black/brown male could have been elected with Trump's record of sexism and misogyny. And NO ONE could be elected if 20+women accused him of drug rape. That is not a good marker for what "society accepts."

I do agree there is such a thing as "white privilege" though. But at the moment people who dispute it are not taking much care to figure out what the term refers to, or means for people who research it. It doesn't mean that when you board a plane, they call for all the white people first.  And it doesn't mean there aren't poor white people who have less opportunity than rich white people, or even rich black ones.