re: How to talk to your kids about White Privilege - ABC

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I'm not sure about this. There are certainly cases where being 'average' is advantageous but they aren't universal and thus cannot be inherent. Had you said "there can be advantages to looking like the majority of the population" I would be inclined to agree with you.

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There are so many different ways one can cast a majority vs. minority dichotomy that the entire notion of privilege really seems like a dramatic oversimplification of how social interactions really work.

If one experiences an advantage from being in the majority, this advantage wouldn't necessarily stop at race. It would go into things like how you dress, how you talk, what is your sexual orientation, what is your religion, do you have visible tattoos, all the way down to the most mundane details. And if we all experience a series of advantages/disadvantages based on how well we align with a majority for a single trait, of what value is isolating individual advantages and focusing solely on them?

Which factors matter for being in the majority and which ones don't? The single variable analyses that these "privilege" conversations promote don't seem particularly convincing because the vast majority of people simply don't view their social interactions through these single-variable lenses.