re: Did anyone catch the Jon Stewart and Oreilly debate on white privilege?

Well, what's the normal first step for someone in this day and age who's genuinely interested in learning about something (as opposed to recoiling in horror from it and defeating the concept at all costs?) I suspect, for most of our generation, it's checking Wikipedia. Let's start with the first sentence.

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White privilege is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

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I bolded the last part because it's the part that seems to elude people who try to argue against white privilege by copy/pasting arguments against affirmative action and reenacting the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. The poorest, gayest, white cripple still has white privilege.