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I don't think that's what they meant.

I’m not so charitable. It’s nearly impossible for one to walk around self-conceptualizing as a privileged white male without the inherent identitarianism and rank ordering of identity groups corrupting you into bigotry.

His association with “smart” with “white male privilege” is a mask slip. Yet all saviours believe in some way, they are more powerful and capable than those they are saving. Even if all they’re better at is a board game.

What did they mean? Can't figure it out.

Educated. Access to good schools.

What has that got to do with being good at chess?

The concept of privilege is that you have time/energy/resources to do things like play chess instead of looking for work. I'm not sure if you're questioning the concept of privilege (which is fine) or saying that it specifically doesn't have anything to do with chess.

Which amounts to concluding that whites are collectively more intelligent than other racial groups with extra steps. Funny to hear from a group slowly having its wealth and population collapse. Maybe they’re not actually smart and are just entranced by conspicuous displays of intelligence like school and chess.

You can’t have privilege unless you are in some way more powerful and able than other groups in the first place. I think one day people are going to wake up one day and realize that white people are just like everybody else. That they’re unremarkable - not some privileged elite.

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