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No the guy has way too many mistruths. America is not 90% white and 10% black.

Yes the benefits of white racism is psychological but it's also economic and legal. Please check out the copius data on employment and income gap for equivalently educated white and blacks. Check out ongoing disparities in the legal system at all levels between black and white.

To say white privilege is nonexistent is US is to be extremely ignorant.



Black people face stigma. You are right about the disparities. It is shocking sometimes. I work at a big research university and I see quite a few black faces but when you look into it many of them are from Africa or the UK or Caribbean and the percentage that is African American is tiny.

Specifically I think you have to be careful of constructions that involve negation. I see a stigma as a bad thing, and a privilege as a good thing. One is not the opposite of the other.

Privilege also has the connation of being ‘earned’, I heard an incel get told that ‘Having sex with women is a privilege not a right’. White people don’t do anything to ‘earn’ privilege even though my dad had ‘that talk’ with me back in the Rodney King days (Say his name? Or did you forget it?) and said that I’d better not run away from the cops when they tell me to stop because white kids get shot too.

Feel free to say ‘white privilege’ all you like but every time you say it another Republican gets elected. The key is that rank and file whites aren’t getting something good, blacks are getting something bad. Who benefits are the wealthy donors behind the Republican Party because when you say ‘white privilege’ a white person somewhere concludes that there is one and only one party for them.

(It is the same with the Democrats, the other half of the US also has a one-party mindset. We don’t have competition for efficient government, good public services, justice, peace, prosperity, etc. when everybody just votes the way that they think their tribe has to vote.)

The 90%/10% is a toy model. (It doesn't matter qualitatively if it is 85%/15%, if it is really wrong it is because America is full of other ethnicities and if you look close at 'black' and 'white' you will find people in those groups are not all the same.)

All models are false; when you look close for instance you see Kamala Harris is the first Asian-American Vice President too. The census question model of race has been very bad for the left because people look at it mindlessly, see ‘hispanic’ and think ‘hispanics are a minority that will vote for US’. They say that every year since 1970 and it never comes true because Hispanics are a diverse group of people and ‘minority’ does not mean lumpen, many ‘minority’ groups are wealthier than average.




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