rajanjii asked: I read through your blog, and I have two cents; I'm white, but I have only come across this "white privilege" thing on tumblr and I ask you this: why, as a white person, should I feel the need to accept a new term that just continuously attests to how horrid people are, white or not? Would it not be more prudent to instead promote just simple equality? Because when you alienate one 'race', the door of racism is left ajar for all. No one should be made to feel guilty for what their skin color is.

I love how people always throw quotes around terms they don’t like. Anyway, the fact that you haven’t heard about white privilege outside of tumblr, chances are that you live in a bubble where it it’s never challenged. The thing is, you can use your computer, phone, or tablet (whatever you’re using to instead come here and ask this bullcrap), to instead go on Google, Google scholar, Yahoo, or even Bing if that’s what you’re into, to read scholarly articles on the subject. There are studies, there are facts, it’s not just a tumblr thing. It’s life Stop.

-Ellix