Then there are privileges that are not visible to, or acknowledged by, those that enjoy them: racial privilege, ethnic privilege, caste privilege, skin colour privilege, class privilege. White privilege is a term that riles people who don’t understand it, which leads us to another academic term: “white fragility” — but that’s for another day. White privilege is a neutral academic observation. White privilege just means that a white person in the exact same circumstance as a non-white person is far likelier to find success and growth. White privilege comes from the social value automatically ascribed to people just because of the colour of their skin.

Source: thestar May 07, 2018 22:51 UTC