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I've never gotten any privilege in my life. Everything was work, everything was struggle. I'm a white Christian male. Tell me how privileged I am due to the color of my skin.
I think you're misunderstanding what the term means. Essentially it only refers to the fact that white males don't suffer from any externally imposed barriers. People of other races/religions/females do. In my part of the world, in my lifetime, that privilege was state sanctioned and state enforced. Mountains of evidence indicate the barriers are still real and still very significant, many of them a function of the centuries of state sanctioned privilege, explicit and implicit.
It's also undoubtedly true that the most significant privilege is being born into wealth or privilege, and it so happens that in part because of centuries of explicit and implicit state sanctioned white male privilege that almost all people born into wealth and privilege are still white and so have large advantages over other whites, and other races.
I could keep going, cite all the studies, the hiring studies, attitudes of jurors, arrest rates, search rates, etc. but they all point in the same direction - white privilege is real. And it does NOT mean that being born white is the ticket to success. That requires hard work for everyone but the trust fund babies. What it does mean is success is somewhat/slightly/hugely (depending on the region/profession, etc) more difficult for non-whites and women. That is, there is a real advantage to being white, especially a white Christian male.
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