“For poor and working-class whites, skin color no longer feels like an implicit guarantor of privilege”
For poor and working-class whites, skin color no longer feels like an implicit guarantor...
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“Telling someone to ‘check their privilege’ can be a means to discredit different opinions merely because people who express them belong to a certain racial category”
“White privilege” is too broad a term. It lumps a white Walmart employee with...
“…there is, indeed, a distinct White Privilege. Being white does offer a freedom not easily available to others”
…there is, indeed, a distinct White Privilege. Being white does offer a freedom not...
“In a society where racism is treated as morally equivalent to pedophilia, what whites are seeking is the sweet relief of moral absolution”
In a society where racism is treated as morally equivalent to pedophilia, what whites...
“If the idea is that black people cannot solve their problems short of white people developing an exquisite sensitivity to how privileged they are, then we in the black community are being designated as disabled poster children”
I assume, for example, that the idea is not to teach white people that...