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This is actually how I explain white privilege to my kids. Whenever we travel and need to go, I waltz into the nearest 5 star hotel and just march to the restroom. If it's in the morning, I usually grab a free cup of coffee too.

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May be a US/elsewhere thing but for me more important in this sort of circumstance are >= middle class dress, hair cut, accent/idiom if spoken to, demeanour etc. Not directly related to race.

Yes all of the above but have certainly done it all over the world (American), so having different language actually helps as it establishes you as a traveler. With or without kids.

Point above on white privilege is that I think it would be a lot harder to try it as a black guy...

Having kids in tow also makes this easier.

Unbelievably racist comment.

Really? I don't feel the racism in this comment. I believe he's accurately pointing a white privilege he has, which is kind of a thing anti-racists do.

Or us that inacurate because it's more of a class privilege than racial privilege?

Not at all. I'm just saying this is something I can get away with easily, and that if I was a black guy wearing the same hoodie and jeans, I have to believe it would probably be harder. Structure supports me even though I didn't do anything for it. The definition of white privilege.

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