[donretag]

That was pretty much my experience. Immigrant family and since I went to high school in Europe, I did not have much of a choice for university and ended up at CUNY. Worked evening in supermarkets for the first couple of years, then I was able to get an internship due to my grades, but basically installing computers, not development. There were not many internships available. Eventually went to a top engineering uni for grad school. Despite all of this, I am still considered privileged and white. When you have no circle, no network, no money, when no one in your family went to college, everything is more difficult.

[p0pcult]

> I am still considered privileged and white. When you have no circle, no network, no money, when no one in your family went to college, everything is more difficult.

Now imagine being a Black person with no circle, no network, no money, no one in your family having gone to college. Everything identical for your skin color. Statistically, the hypothetical black person is likely to have worse outcomes than the hypothetical equivalent white person. This is what white privilege is.

It is possible that you benefitted from white privilege, despite all of the hardships you faced.

You can pretend all day that white privilege doesn't exist, but that's just not what is observed.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

<< You can pretend all day that white privilege doesn't exist, but that's just not what is observed.

Here is an alternate way of looking at this. An immigrant from Kenya comes to US with nothing and little to no support system and succeeds despite things stacked against him. A local black person that should have turf advantage can't compete with an immigrant, who is actually hungry to get ahead.

What do you want me to do? Cripple the immigrant so that the local black person can have a leg up?

Are you sure is about white privilege? Are you sure it is not about something more systemic?

We can pretend. We can even have a real conversation.

But white privilege is an actual social construct ( ie. made up bs ).

[bumby]

I think what you may find in many of these discussions is that people understand privilege may exist across many domains, but that it's an error to think those privileges can be distilled down to just a single domain. We can do better to acknowledge all these different domains, but it's not like there's a single "privilege index" to rank people.