Life experiences are clearly relevant to a person's perspective, to the extent that they are actually life experiences, and not presumed life experiences. They don't follow automatically from having a particular skin colour. There are lots of white people who enjoy structural advantages, and a whole bunch that don't. There are lots of black people who are burdened by structural disadvantages, and many who aren't. This is what Caramon meant by oversimplification - classifying people into groups and assuming they share certain characteristics and experiences simply by virtue of their inclusion in those groups is irrational. So if that qualifies as "explaining why white privilege doesn't exist", okay... the point is it exists for certain individuals, and not for all white people by virtue of their identity as white.
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