My "white privilege"

It doesn't have to occur on an individual level for it to be true. What a stupid post

Obviously there's more white people in poverty, because there's a lot more of them in the first place, dumb dumb! However, the income poverty rate is lowest for white British at 20%.

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The premise of "white privilege" is that white individuals are inherently privileged beyond those in other ethnic groups. I demonstrated in my post that this is not necessarily true and that I, a white individual, do not exhibit much of the "privilege" and socio-economic superiority that pedlars of this concept claim. Most people who use the term "white privilege" wrongly apply it to all white individuals, regardless of their backgrounds -- this was the point I was making.

We've all heard how privileged we are for being white, and how much better our lives are because of this, so I thought I'd share some of my privileges with you guys to so how advantaged I really am, and how much power I have over my minority friends:

- I was born into a working class family in a small two-bedroom house in a working class suburb to parents struggling to pay their mortgage.

- I went to a mediocre public school and got relatively okay grades (but slightly lower than that of the East Asian and Indian students).

- I got into university on the minimum grades required and was funded entirely by the government for being poor.

- After working very hard, I graduated with slightly above average grades and went to an average grad school (that practices affirmative action) which I am currently paying my way through by undertaking teaching duties and additional part time work (interestingly, neither of my bosses are white)

- I have never been arrested or pulled over, but, then again, I don't drive, nor do I carry drugs, chill with the 'wrong' crowd, or get into fights with people.

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This is why the term "white privilege" seems unfitting to me, at least on a personal level. It appears my life would have been no different whether I was coloured or white -- I had the same economic background as most ethnic minorities in my town, I had all the same educational opportunities, and I had no powers or recognisable advantages over my ethnic minority friends, classmates and colleagues. In fact, very few of the ethnic minority friends I had in school that I am still in contact with are any worse off than I am now. This holds true for a lot of people (there are in fact more white people in poverty in Canada and the UK than any other ethnic group). Am I missing something? Is there a cheque white people get in the mail that I wasn't delivered?

Feel free to share your privileges in a comment below, fellow white overlords.

idk, you're unlikely to be rejected for a job for your skin colour. You also won't have to work twice as hard to keep your job over someone who is white.

It doesn't have to occur on an individual level for it to be true. What a stupid post

It simply refers to the privilege of rarely being judged based on your skin colour. No-one even thinks about your skin colour, because it's the normal colour.

The normal skin colour is whatever skin colour the majority of people within a particular group is. This isn't always white.

While it is true that most of the time a white persons skin colour comes into play, it's because they are "not not-white", people of all skin colours are judged based on their skin colour (as well as numerous other traits).

White privilege only really applies when amongst other white people. Skin colour privilege comes about when you share the skin colour with the individual you are interacting with, or the most common colour in the particular group.

White privilege only really applies when amongst other white people. Skin colour privilege comes about when you share the skin colour with the individual you are interacting with, or the most common colour in the particular group.