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  1. 1. The [racist] idea that simply being white benefits people in some unexplainable way, and that discriminating against white people is not only okay, but enlightened and necessary. The excuse some extremists use to justify pretty much any level of [racism], as long as it is coming from people of color. A young American woman died because in college she was brainwashed into believing that her white privilege would protect her from being run over by a bulldozer. > If "white privilege" were only a reality, then I'd be a millionaire by now. Source: ecdict

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