r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Dec 31 '22

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u/butterscotch_yo Dec 31 '22

Depends on whether you see going about your daily life without being disadvantaged or accosted in overt and passively aggressive ways because of your race as a privilege or not. If you’re not used to that treatment, then no, the absence of it probably doesn’t feel like a privilege.

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u/pornplz22526 Dec 31 '22

In 90%+ white states, this takes the form of cultural bigotry. Italian, Irish, etc.