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I think this is generally right (especially in the US) but not always right because there are people of all different kinds of races, religions and orientations who are very well off. Also, there are many white people who are poor.

In Europe, for example, the streets of big cities are full of homeless white people. It's not about race, it's about privilege and the manipulation of our global monetary system in a way which gives an unfair advantage to the privileged.

Many white people today are having a very tough time; not only that, but the media is constantly rubbing salt into the wound by creating the perception that they are all privileged.

It can be counterproductive to point to white people instead of pointing towards the corporate technocratic elite who run the world; it plays right into their hands of turning the masses against each other to deflect attention from themselves.

The irony of it is that it is often those same technocratic corporate elite who are peddling rhetoric about white privilege; they do so while earning huge salaries that are more than 10 times what the average white person earns.

All that said, I fully agree that the system should not give special treatment based on pedigree. Everyone should have access to equal opportunity; this means that privileged people have to be allowed to fail.

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