White people need saving?

[Union Scribe]

27. Why telling working class white people they're privileged is counterproductive:

1. It insults them by insinuating any success they've managed to get is just because of their race. Apparently what some liberals think of white men is the same as what the GOP thinks of minorities in college or the workplace: they didn't earn it.

2. It insinuates further that those without success, like the person you're trying to browbeat in this thread, must have something wrong with them because they've squandered this huge advantage of whiteness and still aren't successful.

3. By doing the above, you alienate white workers and insist that they aren't a part of the same struggle you are, because they're, after all, part of the problem.

4. By doing so, the only possible result is bad feelings and division amongst the 99%, which ultimately serves the purposes of those actually enjoying privilege, who love the fuck out of it when the peons segment themselves.

5. Collective guilt is for the pukes. Your insistence that each white person is somehow responsible for "spreading the word" about how shitty they should feel is idiotic. The white working class is no more responsible for "privilege" than any other member of the working class.

The people posting on DU, whatever their color, are not the people keeping anyone down, and asking them to bear the weight of that is wrongheaded.

Edit: I just had to add in response to

And I should point out that the biggest and most pervasive benefit of that privilege is the mere fact that white people can simply deny that it exists, or they as individuals are beneficiaries of it.

Don't you think it's a wee bit condescending to presume to tell perfect strangers what THEIR experiences have been in life? To presume that YOU know better how people have treated them, or why? People sometimes, very vocally, wonder aloud why the response to such blanket allegations is sometimes itself vocal, well that's why. No one likes some screen name online tell them how cake their life has been.