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In reply to the discussion: Bill O'Reilly denies that white privilege exists in America [View all]sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)"If you acknowledge that institutional racism disadvantages an entire race of people; doesn't it follow that the entire race of people NOT disadvantaged are benefited?"
If all A's are B's then all C's cannot be B's i.e If all whites are privileged then all non-whites cannot be privileged.
I live in rural Appalachia. There are plenty of white people here who are as poor or poorer than any people in North America. The irony is that many of them think they are better than their non-white neighbors because they're white. They think they have more in common with the rich man who lives in the big house in the gated community down the road because he's white too, even though he wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. Whatever else that kind of delusional thinking is, it isn't privilege.