the evolution of a charge: from white privilege to white supremacist

[haele]

62. Understood, and I had thought to add that. But this is a USA problem.

To some degree, there is a similar issue in Canada, but their society 1) does not have the history of racially based disenfranchisement - which leads to avoidance tactics as the Status Quo tries to sweep history under the rug and pretend everything's now peachie-keen and we're all equal, Kumbaya... and 2) Canadian society is still less "individual property rights" driven and more "community well-being" driven.
Except, of course, when dealing with the First Peoples. That's another issue, and just as contentious in Canada.

Look, a lot of the majorities vs. minorities issue is what plays in class privilege, but again, the privilege in "good/bad first reaction" is always based on facial recognition - which means that a critical part of that is race. When getting a first look at someone or a group of someones, the first thoughts for most people is going to be:
"Do you look like a threat to me?", then "Do you look like you belong here?"

And for better or worse the "my Tribe" of US culture has been established to be Western European. Western Europeans are the "tribes" that have run the infrastructure and access to that infrastructure, the media - which influences social norms, and especially the law and legal system since the founding of this country.

I do have a question on your "African Countries" comment. Do you know people who live in Africa?
White people are not only associated with former oppressors and colonists, they are associated with wealth and power in most communities. I was told that it's often difficult to get a true read on what is going on in most of Sub-Saharan Africa because white people are almost visitors or transient workers who generally interact with the upper levels of society and business and they and their families don't aren't considered normal residents in the majority of the local community. To be accepted as a peer member of a community, to live under the same laws and cultural norms when white is unique.
Whereas, in Northern Africa, darkness of skin tone brings with it a historical class-based disadvantage - darker skin usually is associated with a more working class or itinerant tribes.

Haele