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Absolutely spot on, from my POV, are the recent posts about the impact, direct or indirect of the BLM movement and exposure on 'not racist' white people and their struggle to acknowledge white privelege. Then again, can you and should you force a person to agree with a somewhat abstract concept they simply cannot see or feel, for example white people who might be/feel poor or disadvantaged and disenfranchised. Also, the term white privelege is pretty shit in my eyes as it deflects from the oppression /disadvantageous position on non-White people. My wife absolutely doesn't agree or believe that white privelege is a thing, regardless of my trying to explain the ideas behind it (not very well, obviously) but then again she's never felt privelege from a racial point of view and doesn't have wide experience of multi-racial comparison so who am I or anyone to tell her that SHE IS. She commented earlier that she's never been or felt racist but felt she was being asked to feel ashamed, apologetic and anxious because of her own skin colour, not through her actions, which I thought was quite interesting, and honest.