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Re:Who gets invited to the party? by UncleMeat on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:19PM (#23945820)
> Being born white isn't some ticket to a silver spoon, and with so much emphasis on purely race there are negative repercussions.

This is also not new information. Again, this is the basis of intersectional analysis. Activists have been talking about this and working on this for decades, yet people use this as some sort of argument that modern analysis is broken. "White Privilege" only means "being born white is a ticket to a silver spoon" to people who haven't been involved in this discussion before.

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Re:Who gets invited to the party? by MaximumYComb on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:44PM (#23945953)
I'd argue that it's the way the term is being used every day in both the media and social media. The academic term might be different but it's not that definition that's driving discussion.
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