White privilege lifts white people just for being White like racism oppresses non-White people just for being non-White:
a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.
A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non–white persons.
Interestingly the only police officer to ever - and I mean ever - tell me that I have to unicycle on the side of the road with traffic rather than against it was an African American police officer. I wonder if that could be considered white privilege nullification?
Not to trivialize your topic, Billy, I just don’t think you’re going to get very far with this crowd.
Why trivialize the topic when you can trivialize the crowd, eh? Honky.
See Billy, I took one for you. 
You can’t use a dictionary to prove your logic…
How often are you asked to give the White perspective on an issue?
If you’ve had a great achievement, did anyone tell you that you were a credit to your race?
Get off your soap box, white bread.
Ah, the “good old days” are still here. Billy, you are a credit to our race.
A credit? How much would I get if turned Billy in for cash? Will he be enough to get a new flat-screen TV?
Billy, you can’t take the advantage away, it’s endemic now, all you can do is to try to counteract the advantage by extending it to others. The problem with simply offering the “white advantage” to others is that it’s not going to change the past, i.e. without a culture of success, how do you convince people that success can be theirs?
Breaking a culture of oppression takes as long to repair (or longer) than it took to create. One of the issues in extending an advantage to others is that it takes from those with the advantage, so expect reluctance in people who may not see themselves as being “to blame” for the conditions of others.
Oppression is as old as human society, not sure what you want from this group, most of us have benefitted from the advanatge…some may even be willing to give up some advantage so others can advance easier, but then issues of “earning your advance” could make things sticky.
So Billy, what do you want?
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Billy wants to play in the Rucker.
Rafael,
It’s difficult for most to recognize how privilege has lifted them. It’s easy to overlook the fact that advantages we have received are unfairly distributed based on skin color.
The cognitive biases that make it difficult to recognize white privilege are not acts of volition. You do not choose not to see the source of these advantages.
Billy
Spoken, Billy, like a true therapist, but one who doesn’t care enough about his client to know how to spell his name. Which is to say, one who misses the point entirely.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting the world to be “just” and “fair”, but that is one big complicated bag of worms.
I suppose that thinking globally and acting locally applies.
So what can a single person do to help progress equality?
Billy, it’s your thread…take it!
And it’s also easy to overlook the struggles that people have overcome when your view point is only based on skin color.
Assuming every white person is privileged is just as racist as assuming every Asian is good at math…
I live in a nation that happens to be architecturally biased against persons who must rely on a wheelchair for transportation.
Being able to access taxis, buses, buildings with stairs, toilets in every restaurant, subways, etc is only a small part of the privilege that comes with being a Temporarily Able Bodied (TAB).
Of course, TAB privileges may extend to many arenas, social, vocational, professional, sports, etc.
To recognize the privileges widely available to every TAB in my society that are NOT widely available to every non-TAB is not prejudice.
We could start a TAB Privilege thread:
TABs: How have you benefitted from your TAB status?
What do you have against married people?
Why would “we” do that? No one has any interest in starting a thread like that. Even you aren’t interested in starting a thread like that.
Go for it Billy. I’ll say something pointless that Harper will interpret differently than I intended and then maestro8 can make one of his douchbag comments. We can see where it goes from there.
Massengill.
There, do you feel validated now, Raphael? I hope I never break out of the box you’ve put me in… I’d hate to make you feel as if you don’t have a full grip on reality.