White
privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin
and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family
is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your
parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and
Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as
irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like
Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes
with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like
to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible,
all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
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White privilege is being able to dump your first wife after she's disfigured in a car crash so you can take up with a multi-millionaire beauty queen (who you go on to call the c-word in public) and still be thought of as a man of strong family values, while if you're black and married for nearly twenty years to the same woman, your family is viewed as un-American and your gestures of affection for each other are called "terrorist fist bumps."
White privilege is when you can develop a pain-killer
addiction, having obtained your drug of choice illegally like Cindy
McCain, go on to beat that addiction, and everyone praises you for
being so strong, while being a black guy who smoked pot a few times in
college and never became an addict means people will wonder if perhaps
you still get high, and even ask whether or not you ever sold drugs.
White privilege is being able to sing a song about bombing Iran and
still be viewed as a sober and rational statesman, with the maturity to
be president, while being black and suggesting that the U.S. should
speak with other nations, even when we have disagreements with them,
makes you "dangerously naive and immature."
White privilege is being able to say that you hate "gooks" and "will
always hate them," and yet, you aren't a racist because, ya know, you
were a POW so you're entitled to your hatred, while being black and
insisting that black anger about racism is understandable, given the
history of your country, makes you a dangerous bigot.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among
the "lesser adversities" faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin
explained in her convention speech.