The Disturbing Reality of White Privilege

[AverageJoe90]

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See, the basis of your argument is your definition of privilege. Your definition is not the only one.

The problem is, Not every white person is on the same exact level, and gets the exact same respect from society as a whole. A poor white person, for example, isn't nearly as likely to get away with a light sentence on a drunk driving charge as a wealthy athlete or politician who happens to be black, or Latino, or whatever, despite whatever *social* disadvantages compared to the norm the latter may have faced; because the latter man's wealth gives him protection that the poverty stricken fellow wouldn't.

When we flee from the right's terminology battle, we are surrendering the field to them. There is no magic term that will make the right agree. They are turning to terminology in the hope that people will waste their time arguing about the exactly perfect word to use, instead of actually fighting them.

But that's not what we're trying to do. And this isn't about the right, Jeff; many of them can't be saved by our efforts alone. It's about those people on the fence.......those are the ones that can and need to be, woken up, by and large. And special snowflaking over who has the least "privilege", etc. sure as hell isn't helping us.