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Privileged doesn't mean easy. Even if you're poor and white, you will never be judged by a potential landlord, store security employee, or taxi driver on the b
by Arainach 5y ago
Privileged doesn't mean easy. Even if you're poor and white, you will never be judged by a potential landlord, store security employee, or taxi driver on the basis of your skin. You may have a tough life for all sorts of other reasons, but that won't be one of your problems, and that is a form of privilege.
- vmception 5y agoAgreed, this is an obtuse non-consensus definition that is conflated by disenfranchised, the beneficiaries of this phenomenon, activists, and casual onlookers. Is there another word to convey this concept more universally?
- sidlls 5y agoThat abuses the word "privilege" to the point of making it useless to communicate the point you're (likely) trying to make (which I agree with, if it's what I think it is) effectively in general.
- HideousKojima 5y agoThat's assuming, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary (exhibit 1 is all of blue check Twitter), that there are no people out there who discriminate against white people.