I have as little opportunities as the POC around me, so whenever someone says 'white privilege' I do have to chuckle. It's really more appropriate to say 'rich person privilege' but it's easier to pin it on all whites because a lot of them had a head start historically.
No. In terms of job opportunities, access to shelters, encounters with the police and the legal system, fair hearings for public benefits, and class mobility, poor White people STILL have an advantage over poor POC simply from the fact of being White. So it's looking like your privilege is more than just an inconvenient "societal expectation", huh?
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Date: 2013-08-01 11:06 pm (UTC)No. In terms of job opportunities, access to shelters, encounters with the police and the legal system, fair hearings for public benefits, and class mobility, poor White people STILL have an advantage over poor POC simply from the fact of being White. So it's looking like your privilege is more than just an inconvenient "societal expectation", huh?