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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^the first pp quoted in the above exchange was indeed talking about white privilege. And no one said anything about white privilege making for a happy life. Have you read the posts at all?[/quote]

they called it white privilege but then they defined it as being raised to believe everything would just come to you and that others were at fault if it didn't. That's an attitude, that's not WP in the sense of not having to experience racism or coming from family wealth or having parents who both went to college or whatever tangible aspect of white privilege you want to point to. That PP was saying that both the attitude and WP explain why white people are so happy. I've said why I think the attitude part is silly. What's left is WP itself. Just because racism can seriously hurt someone's life or make it harder does not mean that WP makes for a good or easy life. The amount of harm done to the person who experiences racism is much greater than whatever benefit white people get from being white.  It's not one-to-one, where white people have great lives because they keep other people down. [/quote]

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