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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It cracks me up that we are accused of teaching it in schools because most of my teacher colleagues don't know what it is.

And from their self-Googling, they think that it's teaching white kids that they are inherently bad because they are born white.

That's not CRT at all.

Older white people are just mad because they're learning that what they learned in history in school was a white-washed version. [/quote]

Privilege isn't inherently bad, I suppose, but when you talk about someone's privileged status, it's usually done with some amount of disdain. And one of the things the anti-CRT crowd (whether they're using proper definitions or not) bristle at is the idea that the homeless white meth addict from an impoverished, abusive family enjoys privilege because he's white whereas the black queer studies professor from a middle class home lacks this privilege because she's not white. And, I know that we're also supposed to understand the idea of intersectionality where all of these variables play against the other. But "white privilege" comes from the same communication geniuses that gave us "defund the police," so message about being mad at white people comes across a lot stronger than anything to do with the intersecting variables. And then these objections are minimized as just being about a trivial desire to hang on to a more sanitized version of history. [/quote]

I agree to a point. I'm black and believe that "white privilege" is a real "thing" in the sense that ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL being white relieves you of having to deal with whole host burdens that otherwise similarly situated white folks just don't have to deal with or (perhaps more importantly) devote mental space to.  So, yes, it's a thing and has material consequences. I'm not sure there is room for legitimate debate on the narrow point, but of course, folks are entitled to their good faith views that may differ.

THAT BEING SAID, it's rare that all things are equal, and I'm totally aware that, in terms of SES, I'm thankfully far ahead of the average white American, and in that sense, [i]more[/i] privileged than the average white American in absolute terms. So I can see why some folks call bunk on white privilege because "what about all those black folks better off than those poor white folks in W. Virginia?!?" I don't think that's the right comparator at all...ridiculous even, but I can understand the thought process of [i]some [/i] on this score and understand why the "privilege" nomenclature should be retired.

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Read "Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh [/quote]

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