White privilege also exists but is probably a horrific argument to make because people only ever get defensive and you have to argue what privilege is rather than the issue at hand, which is white supremacy. Privilege should be retired in general population nomenclature.
Well, not to say there aren't advantages to being white in a white majority society, I'm sure there are (I don't consider myself white btw) but the very concept of White privilege isn't a particularly scientific one. It's kind of nebulous in many ways with no objective standard of measuring it.
The problem with these types of amorphous epithets is you end up speaking about white people (or any group really) as if they are all just one homogenous block, as if character is determined by skin colour or that 'class' isn't even worth speaking about. So something mentioned earlier was that 'white people' all have a level of racial animus. Now it may not have been entirely meant in the way it sounds. The problem is the language kind of mirrors the old racial determinism Black people have faced throughout history. If white people are all just a little bit racist, presumably this would include the white people that marched with Martin Luther King? In a way I find that type of language almost shits on the people who have fought for equality along side black people. It is needlessly divisive as are all wild generalisations like this. It also pathologises white people in a sense. Like there is somethign about being white that doesn't affect the rest of humanity. This is why I pointed out that in India, black people are facing racism daily. It is not something unique to white people or Western civilisation. The language and rhetoric makes it seem like it is at times.
I buy into the notion of universalism. I feel that appealing to 'common interests' and 'common goals' and looking at the similarities between groups of people has a far better chance of moving things forward than this divisive rhetoric that seems focus on the differences. This also relates to 'intersectionality' and 'identity politics'. As Brendan O'neill mentioned recently, identity politics rehabilitates the racial imaginiation in an ugly way, where as the old anti-racist activism was all about destroying the racial imagination. It runs entirely counter to those ideals.
