Is it productive to repeatedly remind white people of how privileged they are?

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129. There is absolutely class privilege too

and it's huge. To really see white privilege, you have to compare people of the same socio-economic class. So someone who is poor and white to someone who is poor and not white. OR someone who is wealthy and white to someone who is wealthy and not white. People who are poor and white have a much easier time finding a job and a place to live than people who are poor and not white, though these days it's still difficult. It's probably more difficult to see in hard economic times too because the lack of class privilege can feel so overwhelming. But white privilege is still very real and still really effects people.

If you compare a wealthy person of color to a poor white person, you aren't looking at just the issue of white privilege. You're comparing one person who has white privilege but lacks class privilege, to another person who lacks white privilege but has class privilege. To only look at white privilege, you have to eliminate class as a factor, so you need to look at people with the same general wealth/class background, and then you should be able to see it clearly.