&gt; <i>This sort of response is typical for someone from NY(yes, this is also racist).</i><p>Gee, assumptions much? I&#x27;m a mixed race straight male from the Netherlands. I have definitely been on the receiving end of racism plenty of times in his life, and even then there&#x27;s still plenty of privileges that I got to enjoy and that I wasn&#x27;t aware of until my late twenties.<p>These are not binary mutually exclusive concepts.<p>Pointing out privileges is not an <i>accusation</i>, or at least it shouldn&#x27;t be. It&#x27;s just saying: you take &lt;x&gt; for granted like a right, but not everyone get&#x27;s to enjoy that, and the reason they don&#x27;t is a lack of being male&#x2F;white&#x2F;straight or combination of such. Let&#x27;s put in an effort to make &lt;x&gt; equal for everyone.<p>&gt; <i>tells me how would i know anything about discrimination because i&#x27;m too white.</i><p>Except that this is not what I&#x27;m saying. I&#x27;m saying that privileges exist at many levels, and there&#x27;s gradations of privilege.<p>GP is a white Eastern European man. This brings a number of societal privileges. It also means he missed the boat on a number of others, and had to endure racism against certain stereotypes.<p>The point is that &quot;whiteness&quot; as a race is a exclusionary social construct that exists in gradations, and not as a yes&#x2F;no binary thing based on skin.<p>See also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bmHct5IHxrA&amp;list=PL6orzhPfnuvllc7IkVDqyy8gymGsmq1Ho&amp;index=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bmHct5IHxrA&amp;list=PL6orzhPfnu...</a>