<p><pre><code>    I mean, we don&#x27;t go around calling the issue Sunny privilege to describe it
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We certainly would (or could) if we were discussing privilege in a Sunni-dominated area where other groups were oppressed! That would be completely correct, right?<p><pre><code>    how would people X feel if we called crime instead of crime &quot;people X&quot; behavior as if only that group engaged in crime?
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That&#x27;s an awesome question actually. Let&#x27;s say there was a city where nearly all of the muggings involved black people mugging white people. There are one million whites in this city, and one million blacks. There were also 10,000 muggings last year and most of them were black on white muggings.<p>First of all, that would suck, and in this hypothetical city it&#x27;d be hard to argue that there wasn&#x27;t a racial component to those 10,000 muggings. It is, essentially, a black crime in this example.<p>But! In this hypothetical city, that also means there are 990,000 black people who <i>didn&#x27;t mug anybody</i> and -- this is the key concept -- <i>didn&#x27;t profit from those muggings.</i><p>White privilege is a little different. As a white person I actually <i>do</i> profit from white privilege. My life hasn&#x27;t always been easy, and I have generally worked my ass off. But I have also never had to deal with any of the big and small disadvantages that blacks face in America. Nearly every single day of my life -- and this includes some really shitty, tough, fucked up days -- my whiteness has either helped me or at least not been a disadvantage. I profit from white privilege all the time.<p>It doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m a bad person or that things are always easy, but I do want to recognize it.