>>80380762>In terms of "privilege" we're talking about day to day interactions that tend to leave you (a white person, I'm guessing, from the tone of your response) better off than a person of any darker shade. First of all, I'm half black and could never pass for a white person. Second, knock off your ad hominems. If I was the whitest person on earth that shouldn't instantly render any point I might make invalid. Third, how is it not racist of you to make such assumptions?
>For example, if I walk into a CVS with a hoodie, I'm probably gonna be followed down the aisle by one of the store employees (usually followed by a "are you looking for anything?)
Probably going to happen to anyone of any race if you have the hood up.
>It's constantly being seen as suspicious, as "other." This may happen to you at points in time, but for those who look like me, it's constant.
Since we're passing anecdotes, let me throw some of mine out there. My mom is white and my dad is black. I don't look like anyone in my own family or most people I've met, even most other mixed people. I grew up in a red state, which based on the stereotype, should mean I was subject to more racism than those in the blue. And yet I was just as blind to the whole privilege thing most of my life as white people are often accused of being. I definitely know white people who grew up with less "privilege" than I did, who have been treated more unfairly by the cops than I have, and all the usual bullshit.
My point isn't to say that your experiences don't matter or that you're lying or that racism is solved once and for all. My point is that your experiences don't apply to everyone, everywhere, at all times. You talk about how automatically bad it is to be the other, but I'm the other in my own family and I'm telling you it has not ever mattered. I never even thought of this kind of shit until the internet got all bitchy about it.
