Comments by "Ida Larsen" (@idalarsen2540) on "What Is 'White Privilege'?" video.

  1. I mean, I get and do believe in white privilege but there surely are exceptions. I've been personally and know of MANY white people who can't feel safe from harrassment, questions on how you can afford this or that and such. I think class has a lot to do with this. What I mean by this, is that there surely are groups of/including white people who get criminalized in unfair ways, just because of looks or social status. Drug addicts and (noticable) mentally ill people, homeless people, people with downs syndrome and such. Those groups gets disenfranchised heavily as well, yet we ignore that. I think class has A LOT to do with it. I would certainly say that a rich black man has more privilege than a white, homeless drug addict. This goes to show the effects on class privilege. We don't talk about this. We ignore this issue. This does NOT delegitimize white privilege, but claiming there aren't exeptions is just ignorant. Saying all white people have privilege.. no. It's important to talk about class privilege as well, the two are not mutually exclusive or deligitimize the other. Now, take a homeless drug addict that is BLACK and a homeless drug addict that is WHITE. Certainly the white homeless drug addict has a bigger advantage in that situation, due to white privilege. This is partly what makes this complicated. Now, in this situation, although the white person would have an inherent advantage on the black person, it doesn't mean that all white people get treated better than all black people. Would you say a rich, black man has less privilege than the poor white man? I would not. This is why I think privilege has many factors to it and that it's on a spectrum. It's complicated, but I hope this view on it all can start a thinking process in some people. Don't tell me that the white, homeless drug addict has more privilege than LeBron James or Beyoncé. Get my point? Two things can exist, coexist and conflict at the same time. Nothing is (no pun intended) so black or white.
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  2. Wth 😶
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