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

[cui bono]

112. I don't care if you are a democratic precinctperson or not.

And btw... since when are all Democrats progressives? As one can easily see, there are not very many elected progressive Dems. So that doesn't add to your credibility at all.

There is a difference between institutionalized discrimination and individuals. Saying that society as a whole is merely a collection of individuals doesn't mean anything. It's not just sticking things together, it's woven into the fabric of society. I do think you don't understand this because you argued against the objectification of women existing as well.

You are using something unrelated to try to prove that blacks don't have it worse in the US than whites do. You are completely ignoring institutionalized racism. You can't possibly not know that blacks are treated worse than whites as a whole in this country. To ignore that and argue against white privilege is simply denial. If you believe that it doesn't exist then you just don't want to see the facts.

Btw... I went to that link and scanned through the beginning of that blog post and didn't get to anything that was relevant to our discussion so if you want to use it to support your point you should post the points from it. It kind of rambles.