Good points but I was talking specifically about the problem with stigmatizing white people in order to somehow advance anti-racist ideology. White people are still the majority in the US, actively demonizing them probably isn’t an effective means of persuasion.
I got that. Pulling that out of the larger context of the article tends to look like one is dodging the problem of white privilege.
I do think white privilege exists, though not necessarily in the individual forms the left usually cites. It's pretty much inherent and pervasive in European / Christian / Western Civilization.
Individually, a white male should not feel guilty because his race and gender was not traditionally counted against him when obtaining credit or health insurance. It is not his individual fault that the system screwed black people. Yet the system did and governments and extant corporations are responsible.
When we talk about the government owing reparations to Indian tribes for treaty violations, no one seems to thinks that's unfair to white taxpayers who were not even born yet when the trail of tears happened.
But mention reparations for slavery and Jim Crow or try teaching CRT, look out. You might hurt some white person's feelings.
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