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This is actually how I explain white privilege to my kids. Whenever we travel and need to go, I waltz into the nearest 5 star hotel and just march to the restro
by meetingthrower 5y ago
This is actually how I explain white privilege to my kids. Whenever we travel and need to go, I waltz into the nearest 5 star hotel and just march to the restroom. If it's in the morning, I usually grab a free cup of coffee too.
- anonnyj 5y agoUnbelievably racist comment.
- scotty79 5y agoReally? I don't feel the racism in this comment. I believe he's accurately pointing a white privilege he has, which is kind of a thing anti-racists do. Or us that inacurate because it's more of a class privilege than racial privilege?
- meetingthrower 5y agoNot at all. I'm just saying this is something I can get away with easily, and that if I was a black guy wearing the same hoodie and jeans, I have to believe it would probably be harder. Structure supports me even though I didn't do anything for it. The definition of white privilege.
- nimbleal 5y agoMay be a US/elsewhere thing but for me more important in this sort of circumstance are >= middle class dress, hair cut, accent/idiom if spoken to, demeanour etc. Not directly related to race.
- mbg721 5y agoHaving kids in tow also makes this easier.
- meetingthrower 5y agoYes all of the above but have certainly done it all over the world (American), so having different language actually helps as it establishes you as a traveler. With or without kids. Point above on white privilege is that I think it would be a lot harder to try it as a black guy...