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@snottyotter
It's not about white people getting a +5 to their stats at birth for money and stealth, but recognising the fact that they don't, on the whole, need to worry about certain things because of their race. If imaginary addict was a women then she might also worry about being sexually assaulted by her dealer (not that men don't worry about being assaulted, especially in dodgy situations, but that would be a similar whatabout to what you've mainly been going on about) or she might walk home a different way to avoid dark streets. That's male privilege, the imaginary addict doesn't necessarily gain something by having a penis, but doesn't need to think about things that could affect them if they didn't. I'm a pretty poor, relatively working class white bloke, I obviously don't feel like I've gain much through the wonder of my skin colour, but I'm also able to look back on certain situations, maybe stupid shit I've done and realise things would've probably been different if I wasn't white, or wasn't male or whatever, that's my privilege at play. I've also realised through threads like this, and the wider BLM and discussions of privilege that things run a lot deeper than just my lived situations (probs privilege again). The idea of being turned down for an airB&B due to perceived race just wasn't something I'd have considered, but is obviously a real thing that runs alongside something similar I know about but don't have to really worry about like being stopped at airports for looking Muslim, although my comedy surname has lead to a few more drug swabs than I'd consider random.