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In reply to the discussion: here is a question regarding my "white privilege", [View all]Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Reality is: on AVERAGE it is easier to be white than it is to be black in this society. There are myriad reasons for this this and it should come as no surprise to anyone posting here. ( And I don't think it does to YOU either.)
HOWEVER... you have a point in the sense that the *terminology*.... in this case "white privilege" is tone deaf and counterproductive. Doubtless the coinage of a "Left Forum" confab somewhere or a more gradually emerging consensus of lefty grad students and their terminally pc professors.
The phrase drips with manipulation and condescension. If you want to make inroads with people... in this case an obvious target population would be working class whites.... you don't start out by telling them how "privileged" they are.
Normal people understand this instinctively; alas, the academic left does NOT.
Which is why more people don't take them ( us) seriously.