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I think a problem with this line of thinking is if treats people like averages (stereotypical) -but people are not the average. People don’t see the nuance. So it’s kind of like the other side of the coin of traditional stereotyping.

So on the one hand we’re saying let’s not stereotype people, but in the other hand let’s stereotype a subset of people.




Stereotyping is when you say that "people of a group all (do|are) X". The concept of "white privilege" is describing how society treats people; it's not describing how those people are. It's saying "people of a group all encounter X". That's a very different thing.


Except the “all” encounter is a stereotype. It’s just framing things differently to try to make it different.

It’s like saying “well, we’re not targeting women, we’re only targeting people who visit gynecologists”.


again. Stereotyping is when you say this is how a person is. Describing white privilege is describing how a person is treated by society. They're different.


Society isn’t homogeneous. How I’m treated in my neighborhood isn’t the same as another one or another country. Yes, on average, if you belong to certain group and display certain signifiers (positive or negative) those will elicit certain responses —but they’re not universal. If you’re a middle class kid (on average) and you go to an ethnic business (that’s outside your ethnicity) that hires people of lesser means and you apply for a job, you’re likely to lose out to someone of the same stratum as the rest of the employees (they may think you’re out of place, you wouldn’t take it serious, you’d want more money, who knows...)


this is one of the dumbest and most poorly-concocted imaginary scenarios I've ever heard. Reverse racism does not exist. Grow up.


No one said this scenario was racist. What I’m saying is outside you social circle whatever cachet you think you carry due to whatever membership you have falls off.




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