I made that point because of alias_sqbr's remark that "most of us have stories like this in our pasts (if you go back far enough there's always the romans), the point is that non-white people have this stuff in their present".
Returning to alias_sqbr's post and that of rivka we can observe a dynamic in which white speakers in a community of discussion are inclined away from an exposition of the range of difference within the "white monolith" using reasoning such as (rivka):
"We're used to most stories being about us, in one way or another ... I recognize that it's not easy, and I don't claim to be especially or particularly good at it myself. But given the number of other things that are easier when you're white, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect us to spare the effort."
But really, where I'm from, the differences within whiteness are very germane to discussion about social structure, and I don't see the need to elide them for fear that they will crowd out the airwaves. I'd be more concerned with devaluing discussion by acting as if they didn't exist.
The Tim Wise video to which you linked seems concordant with that point of view, discussing as it does the politically expedient use of interethnic prejudice against systematically disadvantaged whites as a diversionary tactic manipulating that electorate. You can't even begin to combat politics like that without highlighting the illusory character of the white monolith. The ruling class is white, but to be white is not to be a member of the ruling class. And ultimately I believe the more important dialogue is about power and privilege and how they're located, and not about race.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Re: Intersectionality
It's one of many possible examples of real systematic prejudice against certain groups of white people now. Women as well, as you point out. But that's nothing new. I have enjoyed a huge social privilege in my life, one that has guaranteed me a good education and an effortless entrée to a career as a white collar professional. In my country, a person who suffers from systematic disadvantage relative to me is far more likely to be white than to be of any other "race".
Returning to
The Tim Wise video to which you linked seems concordant with that point of view, discussing as it does the politically expedient use of interethnic prejudice against systematically disadvantaged whites as a diversionary tactic manipulating that electorate. You can't even begin to combat politics like that without highlighting the illusory character of the white monolith. The ruling class is white, but to be white is not to be a member of the ruling class. And ultimately I believe the more important dialogue is about power and privilege and how they're located, and not about race.