Every white person in a predominantly white country does have privilege based on that alone. White people have varying levels of privilege, just like everyone else, but just because you aren’t affluent, or influential, or whatever, doesn’t mean you don’t have privilege. A black person living in South Africa (for example) enjoys that same privilege.
A black person living in South Africa (for example) enjoys that same privilege.
That statement alone demonstrates how little you understand the concept. Privilege is a set of advantages one has in society based on their background and where that background places them in society relative to societal norms. Plenty Black people in the U.S. are under-privileged, but a Black person born into a middle-class family that goes to decent schools is not one of those people. Likewise, plenty of White people in the U.S. have privilege, but a lower class White person living in an area that doesn’t afford them the same degree of access to standard education, income, and saddles them with the label of “white trash” doesn’t. In South Africa, Black people might be in the majority, but they are not running the country.
Privilege is about advantages, not skin color. Learn the difference.
Privilege is a real thing, but it is racist to assume every White person has it.
Every white person in a predominantly white country does have privilege based on that alone. White people have varying levels of privilege, just like everyone else, but just because you aren’t affluent, or influential, or whatever, doesn’t mean you don’t have privilege. A black person living in South Africa (for example) enjoys that same privilege.
That statement alone demonstrates how little you understand the concept. Privilege is a set of advantages one has in society based on their background and where that background places them in society relative to societal norms. Plenty Black people in the U.S. are under-privileged, but a Black person born into a middle-class family that goes to decent schools is not one of those people. Likewise, plenty of White people in the U.S. have privilege, but a lower class White person living in an area that doesn’t afford them the same degree of access to standard education, income, and saddles them with the label of “white trash” doesn’t. In South Africa, Black people might be in the majority, but they are not running the country.
Privilege is about advantages, not skin color. Learn the difference.
You are confusing the everyday use of the word with the sociological.
You are literally correct, yet showing ignorance about group privilege, social equity and structural discrimination.
Yes, we’re using the same words, but we’re not talking about the same thing.
The convo began about whether every white personal has privilege, not whether white people as a group have it.