If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.
I think this is a nice, lucid observation by McIntosh about how white privilege and racism permeates through every aspect of life, including the very fact that we are able to read and have access to her (a white woman) piece reflecting on white privilege in the first place.
Yes some of the conditions I have described here work to systematically over empowercertain groups. Such privilege simply confers dominance because of one’s race or sex.
I find these points to be quite interesting, as I think semantics and the specific kinds of words we use when talking about racism are very important and an important discussion to have. Some terms or words we use when talking about racism do not grasp the full extent of the experience it is trying to describe, and may inadvertently downplay the gravity of what the term is trying to address. Similar to how there are now black people asking non-black people to refer to "the n word" as "the n slur", as using the word slur emphasizes it absolutely should not be used by those cannot use it.