Mildly spicy thing I think: the slogan “all white people benefit from white privilege” is not good because it occludes a politically very important truth. The intended idea is something like - white privilege consists of benefits one gains access to in virtue of being white...
... and depending on how one then defines it this can be true. But a key tenet of the left is that a world without white privilege is a world where solidarity is easier. Per Du Boisisn psychological wage theory, it’s basically the point of white privilege to prevent solidarity...
... and a world where we act in solidarity to improve our condition is a world that would be better for the great majority of white people. Thus the politically important truth occluded is: the average white personality is on net worse off because of white privilege.
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