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[–]justjoggin 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Privilege seems to be synonymous with trust. And in that sense, they are not completely wrong. People trust white people. But people also trust chinese people and Japanese people and really just about any people but blacks. It should really be called non-black privilege, and it is earned with good behavior.

Trust is not only not a problem, It’s generally considered to be a good thing. The fact that blacks somehow regard “white privilege” as a bad thing really exposes their feeling of inadequacy and insecurity. What exactly would blacks gain by whites no longer being trusted? Seems like more of a “If I can’t have it, then nobody can” thing.

Weirdly, the only reason this privilege idea is even a thing is because blacks don’t have it. Without blacks, there wouldn’t even be a name for it. It would just be how people are.