being white myself I haven’t had much privilege.

You’re still more privileged than you would be if you weren’t white. And I say that as someone who hasn’t had an easy life either, but would have a much harder one if I hadn’t been lucky enough to be born a cishet white male in a rich and somewhat well-functioning country.

being in Europe in itself is a privilege, but that goes for black/asian/other people living in Europe as well.

To a MUCH lesser degree, though. They experience hardships that we don’t because they don’t have our privilege of having the only skin color that isn’t discriminated against in Europe

I’m as white as they come, but I didn’t have any privilege

Again, not how it works. Having privilege isn’t a binary of either playing on easy mode with all privileges or not being privileged at all.

A rich and powerful person with the same skin color, gender, sexuality and nationality as me but no disabilities is MUCH more privileged than I am, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have any privilege.

except those I fought hard for

Again, having privilege ≠ everything being easy.

Turns out privilege doesn’t have much with skin color, but is caused by capital and money.

Again with the false dichotomy of everyone being either extremely privileged or not privileged at all 🤦

So, it’s the same as treating all black people as criminals

Whoa, wtf?? It absolutely is NOT! That’s a BIZARRE comparison!

Sure, there are statistical reasons to say that

From the cops who consistently target people of color more. Black people aren’t inherently more criminal than white people.

White people ARE inherently more privileged in a society built by their ancestors to give them advantages at the cost of disadvantages for everyone else, though.

it’s incredibly racist to treat black people as criminals by default

And the 2024 “Well, Duh!” Award goes to…

as is attributing shortcomings of the privileged to white people)

No. Absolutely not.

Believe me, most white people I knew growing up weren’t what you’d call privileged.

If I took a shot every time you trotted out that false dichotomy, I’d be absolutely wasted by now.

I don’t think I ask for too much when I don’t want people to use my skin color to mean something bad, do I

Like it or not, your skin color gives you privilege. If you acknowledge your privilege and don’t abuse it, “sounds about white” and similar expressions aren’t about you and you have nothing to worry about on that account.

Like, have we learned nothing?

I couldn’t say about everyone, but it sure seems that YOU haven’t.

It’s frankly disgusting that racism against me is allowed because it’s socially acceptable

Again, not racism. It’s not about all white people.

Racism against black people and Jewish people used to be socially acceptable, too.

Now you’re going to bring jewish people into your ridiculous false analogy too? Ffs! Are you trying to start the oppression Olympics or something?

Spoiler alert: we don’t medal in that sport.

And I for one really dislike racism because it’s stupid

So is pretending that calling out privilege and the lack of awareness thereof is racist.

To chronic downvoters: If you only downvote without providing your thoughts on the topic, your opinion on this topic is as important as my dog’s.

Sounds like your dog knows about as much about what privilege is or isn’t as you do. I bet your dog is much cuter too.

what government wants to pay for their mistakes?

The Danish one. Unlike certain other ones, it tends to be serious about dealing with its past atrocities and the effects they had on the victims.