White privilege is not characterising someone based on their skin colour. White privilege is a term that describes how society treats white people better than non-white people.PeterWilton wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:19 pmI don't think it makes much sense to tell me I'm wrong, and then prove that I was right.
I never said it wasn't based on skin colour, I said that saying someone has benefited from white privilege is not characterising that person based on their skin colour. You have either misread or misinterpreted what I posted. If you would kindly quote the part of my post you misunderstood I will see if I can try to reword it so that others don't make the same mistake you made.
it is and always has been based on skin colour, and that is where you are fundamentally wrong, that in itself is not a big issue, but trying to tell people of the back of the class to wake up, is. It's the equivalent of saying male privilege has nothing to do with males! The society you refer to is made up predominantly of white males and to be white and male makes you top of the privilege tree.
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All of us who are white, by race, have white privileges, although the extent to which we have them varies depending on our gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical ability, size and weight, and so on. For example, looking at race and gender, we find that white men have greater access to power and resources than white women do. The statistics from the 1995 Glass Ceiling Commission show that, while white men constitute about 43% of the work force, they hold 95% of senior management positions in American industry. Looking purely at white privilege, white women hold about 40% of the middle management positions, while Black women hold 5% and Black men hold 4%. Unless we believe that white women or African American men and women are inherently less capable, we have to acknowledge that our systems are treating us unequally.
White privilege has nothing to do with whether or not we are “good” people. We who are white can be absolute jerks and still have white
privileges; people of color can be the most wonderful individuals in the world and not have them. Privileges are bestowed on us by the institutions with which we interact solely because of our race, not because we are deserving as individuals.