Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Radfem/reply

Which "privilege" are you talking about. The one that says something like "white people don't experience racism so get an invisible leg-up in the world" or the one that says "white people don't experience racism so are prone to think racism is less of a problem" (substitute "white" and "racism" for whatever the discrimination du jour is). I've seen both used. The former is a bit odd because it's trying to define something that isn't there as a positive thing while the latter is just an observation bias inherent in all people. In both cases, the broad strokes you're talking about are problematic as what you experience in the world is defined by many factors, and singling them out too broadly at best over-simplifies the world and at worst enforces bad stereotypes.