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comment by lil
lil  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Good bike analogy to help understand "white privilege"

This is a good article and an interesting but limited analogy. The limit is this: the bike rider can find a way off the bike someday: even if she can never own a car and there is no transit, maybe she can move closer to town or change jobs. There is still a way off the bike. There is no way out of our skin.

I do appreciate the article, especially the attempt to explain privilege.

I cycle in a very dense urban area and this line stood out:

    But the fact that “the system” allows him [drivers] to do those things instead of being mindful of me is a privilege he has that I don’t. (I have to be hyper-aware of him).
In terms of privilege, I imagine non-white people in urban areas are hyper-aware of the police in a way that white people are not.