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To: CentralParkRanger who wrote (202800)	6/21/2021 6:33:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 362304

Now your "white norm" becomes a "white privilege" comparing to a black person. If white and black people are treated differently it is white privilege. It's very simple. Say that you are on a five tier performance rating scale and you get rated "average." Then you find out that a lot of your co-workers got rated "below average." You may be a relatively better performer than your fellows but you are still just "average." You don't move up to "above average." That's because the performance criteria are fixed. I submit that the criteria for service in a store are fixed by custom and what you have come to expect. You expect that when you go into a store you can wander around, find something you like, and then pay the cashier for it without any drama. You expect that you can find someone to help you if you can't locate what you seek. The cashier and other staff are polite and respectful to the extent that they encounter you. They don't fuss over you. Nor do they give you any grief. They do just what's expected in a store/customer relationship. Ordinary transaction. That the store may treat someone Black less well doesn't somehow elevate the service you received to excellent. Maybe this is a better example: just because the waiter doesn't spit in your food, that doesn't make the service excellent. It's merely ordinary/acceptable/meets expectations. OTOH, if the chef greets you when you enter and cooks whatever it is that you want even though it's not on the menu, that's privilege. If you use the word, privilege, for ordinary treatment, if you diminish it's meaning, what then do you call treatment that goes above and beyond? Star treatment, maybe. Then we go to superstar followed by megastar. We have done that to a lot of words so maybe this is just another. The above is an academic exercise. As for the real issue, I am also concerned about the utility of using "privilege" this way. The problem is not that Whites are treated well but that Blacks are treated badly. Focusing on privilege, IMO, distracts and detracts from fixing the problem.