Something I dug up from TV Tropes: they get triggered by the "It's OK to Be White" campaign:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13067440860A98240100&page=578
First off, if ANYONE on All The Tropes is caught dead being this damn stupid, please mock them. Hell, I'll join in.
Second, the "privilege" argument is utterly moronic for one reason.
While it's true not everyone is born with the same wealth, personal talents, or opportunities, that is in no way a negative for them so long as those qualities are not used to deny the opportunities of others, insofar as they are capable of achieving them.
The only time the privilege argument holds water is when the above is true. Otherwise, something like being rich, white, or having access to friends in high places is nothing to be ashamed of simply because they exist, because hating someone or even yourself for simply having those qualities is the same as hating someone for breathing air.
I still don't understand this shit(aside from autism, yes), so allow me to sperg out a bit here.
Every time I see these arguments, they make zero sense. First off, they treat privilege as the new original sin, but most of the time, if not all the time anymore, they apply it strictly to whites. At the same time, however, they try to claim the following:
1. You cannot escape your own privilege. No matter what you do, no matter how you deal or cope with it, the privilege is always with you. I remember reading some open article thing where a black uni student wouldn't shut the fuck up about one white student being privileged, so he did research on where he came from and found out his great grandparents or something actually escaped nazi camps in WWII and fled to America to start their own business from scratch. And when he refuted with this information with "Yes, I am very privileged and blessed, thank you", he was simply met with "No you're still privileged in the bad way". You can be sick, homeless, dying out in the street, but you're still privileged if you're white.
2. There's nothing to be ashamed of. This is the most baffling part of the argument to me. Every time white privilege is brought up, when it's argued against, the straw man arguments are things like "But it's nothing to be ashamed of" and "You're just being too sensitive". You can't defend against white privilege because there's somehow nothing inherently wrong with having it, but people of certain ideology sure never shut the fuck up about you having it. It's just some kind of extreme level of autism to me when the two core things I notice are constant reassurances that you shouldn't feel bad and, simultaneously, constant reminders of the thing you shouldn't feel bad about, which REALLY insinuates you should.
3. Arguing against white privilege makes you an asshole. The final catch-all straw man argument, that while there's nothing inherently WRONG with being white and having white privilege, trying to say it's okay to be white, that there's nothing wrong with being white, which let me remind you is something the other side itself often tells you as stated above, that white privilege doesn't exist and you aren't privileged, makes you an asshole. This is just a catch-all to instantly disprove any dispute against the argument because the ones making the argument are fucking pansies themselves who can't handle a proper debate, so they have to reflect.
That's to say nothing of white guilt, internalized racism, and all the other neat little buzzwords they make to pander to their retarded ideologies. Rate this however you want, I sperged out a bit over it, but this stuff makes me legitimately annoyed sometimes. It's not because I hate white privilege though. It's because I despise fucking idiots who can't hold a proper debate and have to show their asses to get a self-perceived victory.
