Do white liberals understand the white privilege they receive daily?

[DanTex]

126. I get the "eh". And I agree that many folks are just resistant to the principle.

I'd distinguish between people who have done well and want to take all the credit for themselves and not recognize how immensely helpful being white is, versus people who have suffered economically for whatever reason, and lived a hard life, and justifiably don't consider themselves to have had much "privilege".

Its one thing to remind people that a lot more than their own greatness went into their success. But to people who are already hurting, "white privilege" can easily come off as sounding like they should consider themselves lucky because it could be worse. Which, of course, might be true, but it still doesn't sit well with me. It feels a little bit like telling American minimum wage workers they are "privileged" because they don't work in a sweatshop in Bangladesh -- which again might be true, but misses the point and generally emphasizes the wrong part of the equation IMO.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Who knows, I could be wrong.