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and I didn't address you. I quoted and responded to Batlord.

By definition that is a privilege.

I understand it's not specific, but if we just called it "majority privilege" nobody would care. For better or worse "white privilege" has people talking and it's because the race with privilege is being called out and it's accomplishing things. The people open to the phrase are talking, the people offended are talking, and in general the basic idea is entering the public consciousness in a way that it wouldn't if it were more general. I think this will accomplish far more in the long run than using some boring phrase nobody in society will ever actually care or even hear about.

You really, really, really want to be black, don't you? I bet you think of yourself as a black man trapped inside a white man's skin.
All I can say is that when people become homeless here because the bank repossesses their house when they can't keep up the mortgage payments, being white doesn't turn out to be any sort of an advantage. Just as many white people as other races are homeless tonight in Dublin, probably more so.
I'd have to point out South Africa during Apartheid as an example? At least, a past one.

Yup, just shows how much progress we still have to make when we can't talk about the reality of problems without using race baiting language and dramatic terms.

^Being nitpicky to avoid addressing the bigger picture of the argument is pretty boring.

But it's also a culture specific concept. You could call it American White Privilege and I'd say good on you, but it's not called that and we just have to live with it and argue the idea in the hope that people who wouldn't believe in it no matter what you called it would get it through their skulls. It's still a concept with overlap no matter where you live in Western Society given our shared history. It's one of those, "just deal with it" things.

There's nothing to address. I agree with the idea, but I'm allowed to complain about why I think it's bad terminology. Similar to how I think it's stupid when people talk about god like it's the universe. We have words to describe that already stop adding on to them and making them unclear to the broader audience. It's just muddying the water. Thanks

Majority privilege is a completely misleading term that tip toes around the idea that it's a racial topic. Pointing out that places like Japan and Africa don't have the same race relations as us does not mean that it's not racial. Yes, majorities do tend to have some kind of advantages where ever you go, but right here in America the reasons are completely out of racial bias. It's not a religious issue, it's not a political identity issue, it's not not a cultural issue, it's not an ethnicity issue it's an issue completely motivated by racial biases. So calling it white privilege is the best way to address this because there are plenty of other majorities in this country who are not affected by the same biases.