A white man may be privileged relative to me *in a given context* (let’s say being followed around in a store) but I may be privileged relative to him *in a given context* (let’s say I grew up in a stable 2-parent home and he grew up with abusive drug addicts.)
There is at any given time an infinite number of counteracting priviliges in any given context so it is nearly impossible to account for it or use it as a matter of shaping policy. It is too crude.
Hence both the left & the right are wrong on this issue (and talking past each other.) The left thinks all of life can be boiled down to white privilege vs black suffering (the ideologically possessed) & the right thinks that there’s no such thing as privilege (the blind tyrant).
And this is also why Intersectionality is mostly useless. Okay have a great weekend!
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