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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all your education (assuming this from your self-description), I don't think you understand that white privilege is not just economic.

I'm not a big wikipedia fan but this basic definition says it all..."... a term for societal privileges that benefit people identified as white in Western countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances."

In other words, what is acceptable and desirous for your well-being (economic or non-economic) should also be afforded to those who are none-white.
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Your Polish-American friend who spent two hellish years in a refugee camp can still go into a department store and most likely won't be followed, can most likely not be criminally stereotyped and assumed to be on welfare, etc.  The poorest white "redneck and hillbillies" in your comment can easily walk through a Potomac neighborhood with so much as a glance versus someone non-white where the possibility of police being called is much greater (even though neither class had any nefarious behavior in mind).   That is white privilege.

Again, white privilege is not confined to [b]social-[/b]economic.

[/quote]PP again.  Meant 'not confined to economic.'[/quote]
The problem is that the white guy in flyover country, with a HS diploma and a job at the shop paying $18/hr, isn't thinking about the fact that he can go into a rich neighborhood without being suspected of something nefarious. (There ARE no rich neighborhoods near him, anyway..) He is focused on trying to stretch his paycheck to pay for the groceries, rent, and electric.....and everything seems under control this month....and then, the old car breaks down and needs $400 in repairs.

So now, the budget is kaput for the month. He was planning to take his wife, who stays at home with their two young children, to the fanciest restaurant in town for her 30th birthday, but now they can't go. In fact, he has to return the special $100 gift he bought her, and replaces it with a $25 thing to come up with the car repair money. The social-economic aspects of white privilege are higher up the Maslow ladder. He's just worried about survival. Mention white privilege to him, and you're pushing him even more to vote for Trump.

This isn't an extreme example. This is the typical, average white guy. (Also typical everyone, but we are talking about white privilege.)[/quote]

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