General Discussion

That the resistance to the very idea of white privilege is done so out of fear. I know it's probably rehashing a point, but I think that the resistance is in the terminology itself. The term "privilege" is a pejorative for most of a liberal/progressive bent. The privileged class traditionally meant aristocracy or its equivalent - wealth, WASP, old money - and all the abuse and inequity it implies. This societal dynamic is something that most progressives in most cultures have for centuries fought to undo, only now to be defined as privileged themselves in this newly minted social construct. Traditional terms such as "advantaged/disadvantaged" or "victims" of racism and sexism or other forms of minority persecution have been unfavored as describing our social dynamic. So, "not a victim" has been renamed "privilege". Embracing the term requires a paradigm shift in linguistic meaning, unless you are youth-privileged and growing up with the concept. Discomfort with the term, IMO, is not borne of fear, but of cognitive dissonance.