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#MyWhitePrivilege Trends On Twitter As White People Reveal Some Of The Things They Can Get Away With

...And it's shocking!
#MyWhitePrivilege Trends On Twitter As White People Reveal Some Of The Things They Can Get Away With
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By Paula Rogo · Updated October 23, 2020
The hashtag #MyWhitePrivilege briefly 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…”

White people - What is 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?#MyWhitePrivilege

— 🇹🇹Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇯🇲 (@Freeyourmindkid) March 30, 2019
He then asked them to caption their responses #MyWhitePrivilege. Here were some of them:

I got caught stealing multiple times as a teenager and they never called the cops. They just let me go with a warning. Every. Single. Time. #MyWhitePrivilege

— VoteForWomen ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 (@AnnAnnChe) March 30, 2019

When I door-knocked for political campaigns people usually opened their doors with curiosity, rarely with anger, never with fear. Police were never called. #MyWhitePrivilege

— Cindy Gross #Words4Justice #BefriendingDragons (@CindyGross) March 30, 2019

Got financing to buy a house as a 30 year old pizza cook. I've never been denied a line of credit actually. #MyWhitePrivilege

— Nick Barrett (@partyballoon_) March 30, 2019

A LOT of shoplifting when I was younger: even when I was caught all I got was a slap on the wrist. But nobody was watching the white girl in the polo shirt, they were too busy scrutinizing the Hispanic and Latinx kids. #MyWhitePrivilege

— Why Why (@S0methingS1lly) March 30, 2019

Sitting in swanky hotel lobbies using their WiFi all night as a non-paying guest #MyWhitePrivilege

— Rochelle Sandoval (@RochelleSpire) March 30, 2019

I got pulled over for going 85 in a 25 while texting and drinking whiskey out of a gallon jug and the cop apologized when he saw that I was white and offered me a coupon to Arby’s as a token of regret. I slapped him and said “be gone.” He cried and walked away. #MyWhitePrivilege

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 31, 2019
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.

#MyWhitePrivilege let me get away with faking my own hate crime and have 16 felony charges dropped. Oh wait...

— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) March 31, 2019

I’ve had to work for everything I have. Period. #MyWhitePrivilege

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) March 31, 2019

instead of tweeting #MyWhitePrivilege I approached a group of African Americans and told them how awesome it is being white in hopes they would give me a standing ovation for how self-aware I am of my privilege

Anyway, I should be out of intensive care by next week

— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) March 31, 2019
Were you surprised by some of the tweet confession you read on the #MyWhitePrivilege hashtag?
TOPICS:  trending Twitter White Privilege
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