I am jealous of white privilege, but I also recognize that I benefit from other privileges such as male privilege (as well as others), which has no doubt been hugely beneficial to me. I'm not 100% where I am because of my own hard work. Privileges have a huge part of it.
Yes, there are a million privileges a person can be born with or without. The privilege of being male in some circumstances, or the privilege of being female in others. Female privilege may consist of things like being the gender that has never been subjected to the draft and only comprises 7% of workplace deaths (while the other 93% are male), and which lives longer on average, and which the entirety of society since the dawn of history has been more concerned with the well being of.
Then there's the privilege of being born without a cleft lip, Down syndrome, a missing arm, blind, deaf, shortness particularly for men, high susceptibility to depression, heart defect, alcoholism (as in the case of Native Americans), and I could go on all day. Hell, you could even talk about the human privilege as compared to being born another species, or present privilege and the advantages being alive now has over being born a thousand years ago.
Even as a tall, heterosexual, devilishly handsome white male born into a first world country, I could still have been much more privileged by being born into a wealthy family or with a higher metabolism or without the genes to go bald. I don't think it's particularly productive for me to dwell on those things though.
The people we eventually come to know the names of and admire are those who set out to achieve their goals regardless of what privileges they were or were not born with. We build no statues honoring lifelong whiners who sit around carping about what privileges they didn't get, and how it's preventing them from doing anything. Perhaps you will be the first.
Not simple. Annual performance reports are subjective in nature.
Of course they are. Which is why many police departments have gotten rid of metrics such as arrest rate, conviction rate, etc because the racial outcomes looked bad, and after all... when you're judging the efficacy of a police officer, that kind of stuff is totally subjective!
Standardized tests are often written within white privilege.
Yea, and yet Asians consistently beat whites on their own tests, written to privilege themselves... apparently Asians have more white privilege than whites do. Also interesting is the fact that even tests which have been designed to remove ALL cultural content and bias still show the same score rankings between groups that the supposedly biased tests do.
How about we farm out our standardized tests to Djibouti?
How about you move to Africa if you want to work within a black privilege framework? Oh wait, you can get that right here in America because of numerous and pervasive tangible privileges blacks have via government programs and institutional preferences at just about every level of society including corporate and particularly academia.
this country will never get anywhere if we keep white privilege so strong. It must be crushed and then go to crush other privileges.
We'll never get anywhere, eh? Funny, because I thought we got quite a lot of places back when white privilege was even stronger. Like, y'know, the moon... or to being the most powerful nation on the planet... and the top economy on the planet... and a powerhouse of technological innovation and the envy of the world in areas like governmental structure, standard of living, medicine, and even education (hard as that may be to believe these days.)