White Privilege?

[Dill]

(01-22-2019, 05:07 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Because she slurred the guy if he were with. She made the assertion that he got where he was in live simply by the color of his skin. She immediately dismisses his credentials. AKA she is intolerant.

Hell even fred gets it and he's MR White privilege.

My first concern here is with two questions.  Is the concept of "white privilege" conceptually clear and rigorous enough that it could usefully define some important social/historical aspect of race relations otherwise overlooked, and then allow us to accumulate data and otherwise use it as a productive research tool?

The second question is whether it actually refers to something, the thing/phenomenon it purports to describe, existing past or present?  This would have to be established by research, not Fred's vote. 

At the moment, I would say the answer to both these questions is "yes," but I am open to persuasion if someone disputes these points in a rational, evidence based fashion.

Those points made, I don't think Martin said Webb got where he was "simply" by the color of his skin. If she does understand what "white privilege" means, she could only be asserting it was one factor among others, that credentials weren't the only reason for his success; he had an advantage blacks don't have.  (Not all black people do understand the concept of white privilege. They can misunderstand too.) I don't see intolerance here. 

I think there is certainly such a thing as "male privilege."  If, in speaking over the phone to a woman who has a husky voice, I assume she is man and so likely a beneficiary of male privilege, that would be a mistake, not a "slur."  I would not be intolerant of males or women or whatever.  Just a guy who made a mistake.