My problem with "white privilege"....

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99. I feel like I've responded to this basic position over and over again in this thread

But I would also point to post #6, about the value of seeing it as privilege. Very few white people see racism as being about them, but statistically it has to be about a pretty good number of us or it wouldn't still be here. To keep wording it in a way where we can all say, "Oh racism, yeah that's bad, but it has nothing to do with me" doesn't help rid the world of racism. We have to see that even if we don't want it to affect us, if we want to opt out of racism, we can't because it was attached to us when we were born as privilege just as it was attached to people of color when they were born. So long as we are all pointing our fingers at someone else and saying, "They'll have to deal with it - this isn't about me," it will continue to exist.

Yes, the concept is challenging, but I really think it's a good and worthwhile challenge, and the difficulty white people have with the language leads to more discussion within the white community, which I think does more good overall than making the wording feel good would do.