| JereNYC has offered a thoughtful and balanced view of the phrase "white privilege" but, in my experience, that's not how it's usually interpreted. By law, a privilege is an entitlement. The word "privilege" itself derives from "special law." Are there special laws for White people? I find the phrase racist. Why is it OK to make specific attributions to all White people as if we're a monolithic group? Surely it would be offensive to do that to Black or Asian people. I thought the goal of our "new-found knowledge" was to treat people as individuals, not by using group labels. (All right, blast away.) Gustave |
