An interesting exchange about white privilege in the comments of the DWB story I posted earlier

[cui bono]

92. You're looking at this as individual people rather than a societal/systemic issue.

Of course there is white privilege when you look at society as a whole.

You cannot possibly deny that blacks are more likely to get pulled over than whites, especially when driving a nice car in an affluent neighborhood. Or that blacks get harassed by cops more often. Arrested more often. Convcted more often. And by more often I mean disproportionately. Even when whites are doing more drugs than blacks, more blacks get arrested for that crime.

Just because there is anecdotal evidence of some whites being poor or being arrested does not mean that they are not better off as an entire race in this society. Doing that is just like the climate change deniers talk about how there is a snow storm so of course there's not climate change issue. Or the handful of people whose insurance rates went up after ACA kicked in even though as a whole ACA helped a ton of people, and would have done more if the Republican governors hadn't declined federal assistance.

White privilege exists. As does male privilege. Any real progressive knows it. Unfortunately, DU is clearly not a progressive place.