Snopes Daily Debunker - Does ‘White Privilege’ Really Exist?

Does ‘White Privilege’ Really Exist? Critical to the ongoing dialogue around police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. are the interlinked concepts of white privilege and systemic racism ⁠— concepts some people want to deny accurately reflect the reality of American society. One of those making such an argument is a Black ex-police officer named Brandon Tatum, who, in a newly released video, points to his own success and life experience as evidence against the existence of white privilege. In today’s featured article, Snopes.com’s Alex Kasprak examines Tatum’s claims in light of what “white privilege” means and the empirical evidence for its existence. Read more

 

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Staff Pick Did Hitler Defund and Eliminate Police Departments? Adolf Hitler posed as a champion of law and order, claiming he would uphold traditional German values. But was one of his first actions upon taking power “defunding” the police, as recent social media rumors claimed? Read more

 

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