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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)exercising that privilege, kills and tortuuing the 'right' to do so because, well, what is the claim? Lots of other countries have reason to feel threatened, many of them, by US, yet they are not invading other people's countries killing their citizens, stealing their resources etc. But that's American Privilege for you. And mostly we invade countries that are populated by people of different ethnicity.
So anyone claiming 'White Privilege' who is part of American Privilege, who supports politicians who promote the deadly exercise of that Privilege, is simply a hypocrite. Because, using their logic, and I'm sure the victims of our 'privilege' won't be breaking down who is or is not actually privileged, we are ALL privileged, regardless of the color of our skin, to most of the rest of the world.
The truth is, it is as ridiculous to hold ALL Americans responsible for this display of 'privilege' as it is to single out one group, not even that much of a majority anymore here, and slap that label on them.
But it's fun to try to make people feel guilty. Not working on me, I have to say, nonsense theories that use extremely broad brushes never have, never will.