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In reply to the discussion: I'm surprised how many DU'ers think aknowledging white male privilege is somehow bigoted [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Identifying privilege is the first step towards evaluating any corrections which may need to be applied from a public policy perspective. White privilege exists because of generations of discrimination towards blacks. Even if the discriminiation is stopped, it doesn't change the fact that those communities have been degraded by the effects of generational discrimination and there is little or no privilege they can or do receive which can offset this in the short term. The same can't be said for "male privilege". No woman has any more claim to generational gender discrimination than any man. Everyone has mothers and fathers. Not everyone is black. So those that try to conflate "male privilege" with white privilege either don't understand what that concept means, or they are being duplicitious. Idiocy also comes in when people attempt to assign guilt based on an allegation of privilege, which defeats the entire purpose of identifying privilege in the first place and only seeks to divide.