Explaining white privilege to a broke white person

[Man from Pickens]

21. It's full of false equivalences

White people don't see themselves as "white people". They see themselves as German, Italian, British, Irish, Swedish, Russian, etc. in origin. "White" covers a very diverse set of cultures, many of whom don't see eye to eye at all, and don't make common cause with each other (e.g. Polish and German, not very comfortable relationship there).

So when there's an assertion that a "white privilege" is being able to live around people that look and act like you, that's not true at all. I'm Italian, and if there are any significant number of other Italians within two hundred miles of here, I don't know about it. I'd have to move to New Jersey (almost a thousand miles away) in order to be in an "Italian neighborhood".

That's a significantly different situation than black Americans, most of whom do have common cause and roots from the legacy of slavery. There is a coherent "black" culture in this country but there is no coherent "white" culture.

I can't see where this line of thinking goes but to alienate wide swaths of the electorate at a time when we can ill-afford to alienate anybody.