Posted by cccp1014 on 8/24/2018 9:45:00 AM (view original):
Affirmative Action is a privilege.
As I said sometimes being white has privileges and sometimes being black does. Sometimes being Jewish does. We need to look at each situation on a case by case basis. Throwing out blanket white privilege lingo is not helpful to anyone.
Affirmative action exists to balance out the pendulum that currently swings to white people. By saying that white people and black people are currently equally better off in a world with affirmative action recognizes that black people have a disadvantage.
I agree that most things can be applied to a case-by-case basis, and that everyone has advantages and disadvantages. However, as a BLANKET TERM, in general, race is one of the many advantages/disadvantages. I would argue one of the more prominent ones, but that's beside the point. In general, being black has more disadvantages in America than being white.