Academically, white privilege is an idea that has been around for the better part of a century, and somewhat broadly studied over the last 50 years.

Socially, white privilege is an idea that has manifested in its current basis just within the last couple years or so. It’s become so popularized in the first world, especially in America, that MTV green lit a new upcoming documentary show called “White People” which purportedly follows around white people who enjoy their white privilege.

If you’re watching carefully enough you’ll see that the general demographic that has escalated this into the phenomena it is now, is encompassed mostly by younger people, late teens, and adults in their 20s. Look even closer and you’ll notice that the people most usually making the case against white privilege are white people. It’s become regurgitated rhetoric with zero argumentative originality.

Decrying white privilege has, arguably, become trendy. It follows a decade or more of media that pokes fun of long set trends by other people that in hindsight have been considered lame, and even crafted through failed attempts to mirror black culture. At times, these sorts of phenomena become trends because they’re deemed edgy.

But like all trends, it’s going to die in a few years and go away. Because like the people who have created all of the trends we look back on and go, “god, what were we thinking, we look and sound pathetic,” - the people who are most apt to embrace it and spew it all over the landscape, will get older, their views and tastes will mature, and they’ll be over it.

How can you tell it’s just a trend and not authentic activism for real social change? Because the people typically beholden to bring it up, don’t realize the irony by which they’re acting in. They’re totally believe that they live in a world that is built for the privilege of their skin tone, but are still more than willing to speak over non-white people, not give up their jobs to non-white people, not apply to college so that non-white people can have a better chance to get ahead, stop voting for white political candidates, would probably never offer their seat on a full bus or train to a non-white person; but most of all, they don’t do anything to better the communities of those who are less privileged than they are.

They love to pounce to news stories where a cop shoots a black teen, or some white racist dipshit shoots up a black church - but they never talk about the tragedy that is the on-going violence in poverty stricken communities, specifically the epidemic of black-on-black crime. They don’t volunteer to help in black communities. They don’t donate any money to charities that will help the black community. They could honestly give a shit less about what’s going on in the black community.

The worst of these social hypocrites are white people who either run, or write for new media sites and are more than ready to tackle stories about white privilege, and white-on-black crime with their clickbait articles, but would never consider donating a percentage of the money they earn from clicks back to the black community. They’re more than willing to race bait you into believing that they’re in a perpetual state of dissolution all because of white people, though.

And don’t get me wrong, this isn’t an attempt to shit on hypocritical white people as a guise to showcase white privilege. But take a good look around - white guilt is trendy right now, and it’s going to be that way for a little while. But like I said, there’s good news; it will eventually go away. Because as long as the masses call these hypocrites out, they’ll eventually have to detour, grow up, and be an adult like everyone else, letting the next batch of young, passionate, ignorant miscreants manufacture some new load of bullshit to grip on to and cry over.