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[quote=Anonymous]One other note about "white privilege" for the poster above.  PP proposed a "thought experiment" about Latinx and Asian folks, which is fine but kinda misses the point.  There lots of experiences that Latinx people have that white Anglos don't (e.g. I've heard nasty comments when speaking Spanish with friends in "worldly" NW DC, but never when speaking German).  In other parts of the country, Latinx parents live in fear of their US citizen kids being picked up by police and detained.  What do these things have in common?  They are problems that white people don't have.  You can argue that blacks don't worry about deportation or that Latinos will be picked up by Uber, but [b]the bottom line is the commonality of all of these problems is that they are not white people's problems.  This is white privilege.[/b]

Interestingly, in my experience, if black people mention an actual incidence of racism that happened to them to a group of white people, in my experience, there are ALWAYS people who have to say "yes, that's a shitty experience you had, but..."  "But it was an isolated incident" (despite mountains of evidence that it's an utterly commonplace incident).  "But one bad apple cop doesn't represent all white people" (despite the horrible statistics about disparate rates of arrests, convictions and sentencing for whites and blacks for the same crimes).  "But Latinos experience prejudice too" (as if that was somehow better?).  But, but, but.  That need to argue against, deny (or create "thought experiments" about) the complete ubiquity of unfortunate experiences that non whites have regularly that we don't --- that's white fragility.         [/quote]

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