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CMV: The term 'white' privilege shouldn't exist.

Before I get flamed: I'm Southeast Asian and middle income.

I'm willing to change this view if my inquiry is proven wrong or if the logic is proven shaky or fallible.

I have two issues with 'white' in the context of race.

The first being, there is no scientific evidence to suggest white people are genetically or biologically related. A person of West Slavic origin is genetically different from a person of Tunisian origin, a person of Finno-Ugric descent is genetically different from a person of Northern Germanic descent. Same with how you cannot lump black people together as a person of West African descent is entirely different genetically from a person of Ethiopian descent.

Second, the term white is vague. What delineates white people from other races where their appearance is slightly different but not entirely? If this was the case then wouldn't Tunisians, Hungarians, Albanians, Finnish, Sicilians, Spaniards of moorish descent, be considered non-white or white? Racially classifying people is an asinine cause because each time you jump to the border of a country you'd see that races are usually mixed and blurs the lines on a specific race.

Is the definition of white considered to be tied to imperialistic old world powers with racially white physical characteristics, further citing the historicity of the matter? If that was the case then, Irish, Welsh and Scottish natiobalist and independence movements throughout history are essentially anti-White which would mean that  people who descend from those heritages are non-white. 

Unless the definition of white is formalized and has some sort of basis on hard sciences rather than being a social construct, then use of white (and any other racial term like black, yellow, asian) should be banned or discouraged in use. At the very least treading lightly on the subject matter.

Privilege on the other hand, does exist especially in a number of countries where majority of the wealthy are concentrated on a minority. That being said, white privileges as a result of them being white is just furthering the narrative of white ultra nationalists that white people do have privileges over other races. At the same time, white privilege's historicity is often cited, where people blame white people on committing treacherous acts of exploitation and subjugation.

In that regard, imperialism is not endemic to white people. The Aztecs practiced ritual mass human sacrifice from captured slaves. The highland head hunters (Igorot) of the Malayan archipelago practiced head hunting and raiding. The Arabs practiced slavery, furthering the practice into the Malayan Archipelago where the islands of Sulu became a slave trading and pirate hub. Native Africans procured slaves by way of conquest and ethnic cleansing, which they then sold to European merchants (see: African slave trade). The empire of Akkad in the middle east was the first empire in history.

The old world European powers which colonized and subjugated native populations are just a scaled up version under a long line of conquerors and imperialists. Blaming it on racial privilege is nonsense.
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You’re misunderstanding the origin of “white” people. It’s an American term, invented during slavery/segregation era. So instead of putting up “Slavic/British/European water fountain” signs up they just put “white”. You say the term white is vague. That is correct. It used to be basically anyone who wasn’t a n******. 

Same goes for “black” people. It’s a completely made up term by white people. That’s why you’ll come across Dominicans and Jamaicans who would swear up and down they are NOT “black”. Or Irish Americans who say they’re not white, they’re Irish. 

So I’m not sure why you’re fixated on the word “white”. It’s not racist since a white person is just an American, who had ancestors with a few hundreds head start in history.