white privilege

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white privilege (uncountable)

  1. (sociology) The collective advantages that white people are granted and enjoy in a society, usually apart from demonstrable merit, as contrasted against the advantages (or lack thereof) of non-whites of the same society.
    Synonym: white skin privilege

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