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Originally Posted by wil318466
I honestly don't know what you're trying to say. I speak plainly. I guess I have to ask you to do the same, because I don't understand your point.
Let's try it this way, with yes or no answers.
Sorry to take so long to respond. I somehow managed to have two different projects with important milestones the first week of January and between that and the holiday I was distracted. But now I'm in an airport so I have a little time to kill.
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Originally Posted by wil318466
Is there such thing as white privilege?
Yes.
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Does someone like Malia Obama face challenges due to white privilege?
No*
*I know you said we'd followup afterwards but I don't think it's useful to give this a yes/no answer with no elaboration, so here is some :P
If we understand (following the definitions I linked) white privilege to refer to some definable set of relative advantages or disadvantages tied to race, then theoretically Malia Obama could experience some of the disadvantages of being black. For example, one can imagine a scenario in which she's shopping in a high-end boutique store and the clerk treats her with suspicion because she's black, not knowing who she is. That's an experience a white woman (say one George W. Bush's daughters) wouldn't have faced, even if she were similarly unknown to the clerk.
On the other hand, I take your question to really be asking whether or not Malia Obama is disadvantaged relative to something like "the average white person", and the answer is clearly no. She has other advantages (class and social status, wealth, notoriety) that more than compensate. She's a fairly uniquely privileged person. In other words, "white privilege" isn't the only kind of "privilege".
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Originally Posted by wil318466
Just to be clear - I have no issue with you and I'm not upset about anything, if I came across that way I wanted to clear that up.
Cheers.