Many incidences of white privilege are exaggerated... however, I think a true example of 'white privilege' is the situation with the Ukrainian refugee's. Let's be honest here for a moment, countries did not mind taking them in and families signed up in droves here in Canada to host them in their homes. Compare that with the Syrians? few people would take them. And as far as hosting the Haitians goes... let's not even go there.
I disagree with that situation being rooted in any sort of "White privilege". That's more like a "your people aren't known to behave like savages" privilege.
We have ample evidence and experience on the way Muslims from the Middle East behave as refugees. And the exact same thing applies to black refugees from Haiti
Haitians might even be a little worse, tbh.
Muslim and black refugees are extremely entitled, rude, have questionable hygienic practices, and their behavior often crosses into criminal. They're the type of refugees who act like they're on a vacation rather than having the solemn attitude you would expect from individuals fleeing a war zone or natural disaster.
And I tend to believe that Ukranians actually look forward to a time when stability returns to their country and they can go home, whereas the aforementioned groups will make their refugee status permanent if at all possible, legal or no.
Back to the whole "White privilege" non-issue: I bet people wouldn't mind taking in Japanese refugees since they come across as quiet, tidy, and polite. On the other hand, Chinese refugees would have a much harder time, since everyone familiar with the way Chinese tourists behave definitely wouldn't want them around for an extended period of time.
And they're both from the far East, the same "racial" group, so to speak.
It goes back to what I said originally. It's all about your culture or group's reputation. Most White cultures have a much better reputation than blacks or Middle Easterners. And the same positive reputation exists for numerous other non-White cultures.
People don't understand in America that class matters much more than race, at least when it comes to opportunity.
Very much true. Money trumps all, and it has in this country for longer than any of us have been alive.
I will meet leftists a quarter of the way in that I do agree that in the past, white people actively conspired to keep other races from breaking into the middle and upper class
The people in America who built their families and communities up originally created most of their wealth by working very hard while spending very little on frivolous affairs. They stayed away from gambling and hard drinking, and they saved and put away every penny they had.
It was that whole Protestant work ethic they followed generation after generation.
And they did make it harder on the people who came after them from breaking into the upper class, but remember, they did this to other White immigrants. The ones who came first had it, they figured they worked hard for it and earned it, and they damn well didn't wanna share it with anyone.
So yes, I agree that they did what you said, but to the later immigrants: mostly White immigrants. Every group that came after them had to tough it out and fight for their piece of the country.
My point is that it wasn't racial. It was tribal, and it was ethnic. The original Protestant American attitude was, "We built this place up from nothing and we wanna keep it all to ourselves: our families, our local community, and our people from whatever corner of Europe we came from. These new immigrants, the Irish/Italian/German/French/Greek etc. are gonna have to earn it like we did if they want a piece of the action. We're not just gonna give it to them."
Asians essentially broke into it by sheer force of will.
They had to break into it the same way that every group before them did. The only difference was that they came later and the later you came, the more groups you were competing with. But they managed to do it, and that says something about them and this country: their work ethic and the egalitarian nature of America, where any group can make it if they put in the work.
