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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
There are like 4 ways to go with this.
Why buy into the idea of privilege at all? There will always be someone more privileged than you; be it by circumstance of birth, or opportunity of youth, or fortunate fit within society. Where's the line that cuts between him being more privileged than you and him being better than you? And even when you can see that line, what does it matter that it's there?
I barely claim to understand culture, but I know that it, culture, is accepted and dictated upon by successive generations. And America in particular has a lineage of tolerating slavery of blacks, banning of chinese, interning of japenese, genocide of redskins... I think there's ample reason to prefer being white in America than any other racial option.
Perhaps privilege is a generalization of a very large group where people of similar circumstances have grouped up?
Meaning perhaps it's an illusion based on generalizing circunstances?
But then we wonder why that generalization can happen, and why it seems that whites are generalized higher than others...is that generalization itself what privilege is?
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