| 单词 | white privilege |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite privilege white privilege n. the high status and accompanying rights and advantages accorded to white people in a society based on or characterized by racial inequality or oppression of non-white (esp. black) people; (now often) spec.: advantages deriving from, or taking the form of, freedom from prejudice or discrimination based on skin colour in a majority-white country. ΚΠ 1921 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 8/2 The black population..are no longer content with the policy of wholesale disenfranchisement..which has been so long pursued in the Southern States... The claim to white privilege is threatened, and a very serious problem looms ahead. 1963 Liberal Opinion (S. Afr.) Feb. 5/1 She and her fellow liberals have..set out to expose apartheid as the shabby attempt to entrench white privilege at the expense of non-white rights which at bottom it is. 2015 K. Green Something must be done about Prince Edward County vi. 92 Having friends of color, gay friends, and immigrant friends that faced various forms of discrimination opened my eyes to the ways I benefitted from white privilege. < as lemmas |
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