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You may or may not have come across the hashtag #MyWhitePrivilege on twitter, but nevertheless, here’s what it’s about;
White people are making use of the hashtag on twitter to draw attention to some of the most outrageous things they’ve gotten away with because of that privilege.
The hashtag became a trending topic on Saturday, at first becoming a space for white people to admit the ways in which the color of their skin has benefitted them…before the conversation devolved into something else!
The hashtag started after Twitter user @FreeYourMindKid asked white people to share the most “outrageous thing that you’ve gotten away with as a white person that you know damn well a black or brown person would have never gotten away with…”
He then asked them to caption their responses #MyWhitePrivilege. Here were some of them:
Although many were open to sharing their stories, the hashtag quickly devolved as right-wing conservatives used the opportunity to clown the very idea of White Privilege.
