How has use of the term "white privilege" harmed you?

[AverageJoe90]

290. "Then you benefited because everyone else HAS!" I hate to say this, but.....

There is a major problem with this rather dualistic thinking; it doesn't hold water in reality. While ethnic, gender, etc. disparities do, unfortunately exist, not every Caucasian, or male, or straight, etc. person collectively reaps direct benefits from such.

And, for that matter, not every person in a disadvantaged group will necessarily suffer direct consequences in return; this realization, in turn, does not, at all, disprove that these prejudices do exist in the background and that the risk of suffering such is still universally present for these groups, even if not every individual is themselves directly affected.

Which is why that even though I myself have not, so far, directly benefitted at the expense of other ethnicities, nationalities, etc., as far as I am able to possibly tell, I still realize, and accept, that these problems do exist.

Hopefully this clears things up a bit.