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CMV: Many on the left focus too much on white privilege

I believe that white privilege does exist, at least to a degree. Some amount of ardent white supremacists still exist, and a larger number of people who hold discriminatory views without being hostile also exist. This is a problem, and I support efforts to address this problem as we can.  

However, a growing trend since the 2010's has been to place white privilege as one of, if not the, biggest problems in society. Scarcely can leftists even mention another issue without making it about race, too. It's not enough to say "10,000 people are homeless in x city", they've also got to say "a disproportionate number are black". Does that really change anything? Is it not enough for some people that they're homeless? Why does their race factor at all? You see this on issue, after issue, after issue. If it's not made about race, it's as if some people don't care. 

I'm a leftist. I live in a deep blue state. I've voted Democrat or further in every election I've ever voted in. I want to feel less agitated about this topic. But I do, and for a number of reasons. 

1) Class is more important than race. In just about any scenario, a rich black man lives a better life than an impoverished white man. Given this alone, poverty should be considered the most important issue with regards to privilege and power, and yet race so often seems to distract from this. Talking about white privilege as such a central issue implies racism is a bigger problem than poverty. 

2) It misses the trees for the forest. Any generalized statement like "white people are privileged" is going to have a million caveats to it. You can say, for example, black people are disproportionately killed by police, and this is a fact. Some go the extra step and say that whites don't know what it's like to fear police. Sad to say, it's also a fact that police kill thousands of white people every year. This fact is, for some reason, very rarely ever mentioned in discussions of police brutality. Plus, on an even more basic level, there's just people who are exceptions to any rule. Assumptions, in that way, are kind of inherently toxic when taken uncritically. 

3) It's counterproductive. Focusing on race is inherently divisive. It reinforces that race is something that matters, which moves us further away from the goal of a colorblind society. Some reply to this by saying we're just not ready for a colorblind society. To that I say, how exactly will a colorblind society ever come about on the path we're headed? At what point do we get to say enough is enough? The historical realities of discrimination will never truly go away, and focusing on race only strengthens it. 

My biases: I'm white, I grew up in a low income family in a racially diverse minority-majority community in a blue state, I'm Irish by ethnicity, my dad would probably go further on all this than what I've said here. 

Alright, tldr, basically I think white privilege is real but it's secondary to class and toxic to focus on so much besides. 

If you want a delta, be respectful and try to build off what I've written here.

CMV.

Edit: To anyone going around downvoting this conversation, you are part of the problem.
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> which moves us further away from the goal of a colorblind society

Do you think having a classblind society would address class based issues (homelessness, access to healthcare, ect)?

If not, then why do you think willful blindness to race based issues will solve them?