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White Privilege seems an odd sort of privilege to me. I never would've thought that having to have a higher GPA and SAT/ACT scores to have the same chance as a minority applicant to get into the same school was a privilege. Nor would I have thought it a privilege to have to be demonstrably better than any minority applicant to have the same chance of getting the same job. Nor would I have thought it a privilege to have to have a higher income, credit score and down payment to get the same terms on the same loan as a minority applicant. I never would have thought it a privilege to be told that I was responsible for all of the ills of the world based on my race. I wouldn't have thought it a privilege to have all of the bad things my ancestors did emphasized ad nauseum while all the positives were either derided or ignored while everybody else got the exact opposite treatment. I didn't think it a privilege to have an ever-increasing amount of my money confiscated via taxation to fund welfare programs that disproportionately benefit minorities. In fact, it seems to me that a lot of what is called white privilege, if applied by whites to a minority, would be considered the worst sort of racism and bigotry