Mauser
04/26/17 3:18:33 PM
#85 | meingott posted...pinky0926 posted...
Anyone who's saying "no" I feel is not understanding what white privilege means. It doesn't mean all white people have it easy and all black people have it hard. It doesn't mean that you're not capable of having a tough life because of your whiteness, or that any of your hardships should be dismissed because you are white.
Best simple explanation I read on reddit once:
White privilege isn't some thing where every white person is born with a silver spoon in their mouth (although because of family history, land ownership there are greater chances of wealth being passed down for some non immigrant families)
I think it's more just, for the most part, not being negatively judged by your skin color when searching for employment, dealing with police. If a fictional character is white, it's just a character, if the character is black/asian/etc, you're making a statement.
It's not that it's easy to be white, it's hard to be human in general, it's just you don't have certain flavors of extra bullshit.
Whether it's looking like you're up to no good because you're black and wearing a hooded sweater, not having to prove your ethnicity if you don't like certain things (you're the whitest black dude I know, you don't even like hip hop), not really thinking racism is still a big deal because it doesn't often enter your personal space etc.
Edit: Additionally, growing up in America means that you also had to grow up mostly watching white men/women/culture in TV/Movies. So much so that I literally had to explain to several white kids that anime characters are usually asian. I guess I had the break dancing black power ranger with a gun, Barret and the burn victim demon Spawn, but there were slim pickings being a black nerd and trying to see yourself/find a costume.
That sounds more like "majority privilege" to me. Because the same is true of the majority populations in Zimbabwe, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, etc. Thread should have ended here. |