Yes, I Think Privilege Exists.

Yes, it’s probably different from your definition of privilege.

In the Culture War of 2019™, opinions on privilege tend to go in one of two directions: 1) Privilege is immutable, absolute, and the cause of most or all problems in the world or 2) The concept of privilege is for whiny SJWs who can’t do anything besides writing incoherent editorials for HuffPost and Medium. However, in true LGBT Christian fashion, I’m taking a third route: one that offers the context and nuance that these ideas lack. Privilege definitely exists, but that is relative, contingent on context, and able to shift drastically at a moment’s notice.

For one, today’s discussions of race relations and historical examples of discrimination in America tend to leave out subgroups of people that are considered “white” by conventional standards. However this does not change the fact, during the Palmer Raids, thousands of Russian, other Eastern European (at the time Soviet), and Italian immigrants were deported without a fair trial. This was due to assumptions that, largely because of their origins, they were enemies of the state. Of course, some people barely know about Japanese-American internment, but it is important to know that this way of thinking had its roots in the 1920s and that Japanese-American internment was a rehashing of the idea of protecting American ideals from the foreign enemy.

In 2017, an 18-year-old disabled white male was the victim of a racist attack. His attackers threw taunts of “F — k white people” and “F — k Donald…