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Also changing the phrase white privilege to make it more palatable to us whiteys seems a bit white privilegey.
Just in case it seems like I was misconstruing Rankine point. iirc her motivation was to make it more all encompassing to demonstrate that it spans the whole way people live their day-to-day life - not to make it more palatable.
She also had a great anecdote about a white woman walking in front of her in the business class queue, mistakenly assuming she wouldn't have been in business class. Once this was pointed out she was mortified over her mistake and queued behind her... not noticing she'd cut in front of a middle eastern looking man.
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People aren't doing this though, they're discussing the real life, actual ways race affects their lives and social interaction, in this country and when they interaction is with "the system" they may well be negative. People aren't putting it as the be all and end all, or saying other factors don't exist, but, especially in the context of this thread and BLM it's a specific conversation about racism. All you seem to be doing is "not all menning" a discussion about the patriarchy but when the discussion is about racism, overt or systemic. No one has denied that there are other privileges than race and that some of those will apply or not to people of different races. It's not about taking away something from the people with privilege, just noting that it exists and should be looked at and worked on, probably not by, say, trying to make sure white people are as likely to be pulled over whilst driving as black, but the other way around. Also changing the phrase white privilege to make it more palatable to us whiteys seems a bit white privilegey.