I&#x27;ll keep this polite and assume you&#x27;re intelligent and informed, a courtesy you did not extend to me.<p><pre><code>     You are aware that Irish and Eastern Europeans, and on and off through history Greek and Italian, have had all those same problems right?
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I&#x27;m very, very aware of that fact. Hey, for the record, I&#x27;m partly Welsh. The Welsh have been oppressed by everybody! They&#x27;re pretty damn white.<p>Literally nobody is denying that Italians, Irish, Eastern Europeans, or people from unfashionable parts of Brussels, or your mother&#x27;s uncle&#x27;s cousin from Estonia, have faced discrimination at various points in time, and perhaps still do today.<p><pre><code>     White Privilege should just be called White Devil.
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I won&#x27;t try and change your opinion, but you should at least understand what the concept of &quot;white privilege&quot; means.<p>It absolutely <i>does not</i> imply that white people are bad, or that white people are devils, or <i>anything</i> of the sort.<p>The concept of white privilege is a way of viewing things that challenges us to observe freedoms that we as white people have that others don&#x27;t always enjoy.<p>For example: as a white person, if a cop pulls me over, I may be treated unfairly. But whatever happens, I generally know that I won&#x27;t be treated badly <i>because of my race.</i> He certainly didn&#x27;t pull me over because I&#x27;m fucking part Welsh, I can tell you that! Black people don&#x27;t have that privilege. Now, 99% of the time, maybe their race doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with their interactions with the police. Most cops are good people. But wouldn&#x27;t it suck to be black and never really <i>know</i> if a cop was going to treat you badly simply because you&#x27;re black? And that at least once or twice in your life, it probably <i>will</i> happen? That&#x27;s some bullshit I don&#x27;t really ever have to deal with in my life. A <i>privilege</i> I have, if you will.<p>Now, like I said above, I can&#x27;t help but wonder if we do need some new terminology here.<p>I am certain that I have not changed your mind. Again, I&#x27;m just defining the concept for you. You can agree with it or disagree with it at this point. That&#x27;s cool. But your post made it very clear that you had no understanding of the concept. Probably because the term &quot;white privilege&quot; itself was a turn-off. You probably thought it was an attack on white people. It&#x27;s not.