Date: 2007-03-25 11:27 pm (UTC)
White privilege, (institutional and otherwise) racial discrimination of all types, is not about what happened "then", in the past -- it's about what is happening now, and will continue to happen until people actually learn that it IS happening and do something to stop it. You can't "change the way it's handled" unless people realize that there is a problem in the first place, which they are apparently loathe to.

"Past actions" have nothing to do with this. They way people act today, does.

What "wrong" issues am I/others obsessing about? I'd say the fact that there are people by and large receiving preferential treatment because of their race is a pretty big issue. And actually, no, comparing the current social standing of any race (which ties into their economic standing, their cultural mores, etc.) to any other race is incorrect and fallacious no matter how you slice it, considering each of them had and continue to have very different, distinct histories and cultures, not to mention timelines. It's not comparable. Apples and oranges.

I'm really curious -- who is making white people out to be "bad"? That seems to be a very common misconception when talks like this crop up. White people aren't a hivemind. We don't all fall in lockstep because we have the same color skin. There is, as you said, a "world of difference" between villainizing a group and presenting a breakdown of how that group is operating on a different level than everyone else in the society in which they operate and live. White privilege is a phenomenon that (unfairly) benefits white people, not a meeting of the minds that we all consciously contribute to in an effort to impede everybody else's progress.
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