I have a major problem with the term white privilege. It implies that all white people are cruising through life on a luxury liner. I guess I missed the boat.

I realize that I do not suffer the injustices and prejudices leveled against racialized persons.

I can more easily navigate society than a newcomer because I am a member of the incumbent majority. This has nothing to do with being white. A white person from abroad who had no networks, didn't speak the language or understand local social norms would struggle mightily.

My access to certain neighbourhoods is a function of income and creditworthiness, not race.

If you are white and born into poverty and dysfunction, you will probably start off from a more disadvantaged point than a newcomer who will have public resources directed to their advancement.

The label "white privilege" is just another prejudgement based on race that makes wildly optimistic assumptions about wealth and status as though every white person is some exotic investment banking kingpin with a Learjet in the driveway.

The fact that white people do not suffer from the structural racism that racialized people do does not mean we don't suffer every other form of existential suffering.

The white privilege label seeks to overestimate white people's status whereas discrimination directed at racialized people seeks to demean or understate the target groups abilities and rights.