I mentioned this a few days ago in another post. Revised somewhat

Racism As Defined by Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives, 10th Edition "The belief that humans are subdivided into distinct hereditary groups that are innately different in their social behavior and mental capacities and that can therefore be ranked as superior or inferior."

Anyone can be racist against anyone

"Discrimination is the behavioral dimension [of ethnic dominance] and involves actions designed to sustain ethnic inequality." -Same source as above

This is what they think they mean, but regardless. This doesn't take into account that within each pocket of society, the pecking order is different. If black kids beat up a white kid in a predominantly black neighborhood, they're maintain their power on that scale. A latino business owner who refuses to hire whites, because he considers them inferior, he's maintain power and inequality in his pocket of society.

The problem is that these people don't understand relative situations. I'd agree, that overall, white people in the west often have advantages and have often use those advantages to screw over minorities. But these folks want to believe in magical absolutes to easily categorize right and wrong. Where all white men are privileged, where are all minorities are oppressed.

I'm sure your all familiar with Peggy McIntosh's (no relation to our FemFreq buddy) white privlidge list https://www.isr.umich.edu/home/diversity/resources/white-privilege.pdf

I personally, experienced less than half of those where I grew up. And it's not because they don't exist at all, it's because where I grew up was a uniquely different experience than other places in the country. These people cannot believe that, they think that white privilege is a superpower or some insane construction like that. It's used to rationalize away problems instead of actually working to solve them.