Answer to Question #173644 in English for Iya

Question

White Privilege' is a Distraction, Leaving Racism and Power Untouched by

Kenan Malik

Write claim, support, warrant, backing, qualifier and rebuttal

Answer 1

'White privilege' turns a social issue into a matter of personal and group psychology. White privilege is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, mainly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. People are discriminated against by their income levels such that a rich black man cannot be killed, but a poor one is arrested, tortured and killed. White privilege is a bad thing to a society that highly affects the politics, lifestyle, injustices, and moral nature of a country.

I strongly don’t support white privilege since race and class are not competitive causal categories to be set against each other. Minorities are an integral part of the working class, and they often have similar state authority experiences. Race and class shape people's lives in complex ways. Getting an example of how Covid 19 management has been handled concerning White Privilege and the poor people, you realize that it is doing more harm to society than good.

Whether of race or class, general inequalities cannot be reduced to the question of white privilege or challenged by eliciting guilt, but it should be abolished entirely. But the heart of the problem lies in warped social relations and deformed institutional structures. As we search for new political moorings, we need to think not just of identity and psychology but also of the material and the social.