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In reply to the discussion: Damon Young, [theroot]"I will never forgive white people for Donald Trump" [View all]unblock
(52,196 posts)But my point is that he didn't earn any of it. He was born into money, just as he was born into whiteness.
It's not a question of which characteristic benefits him the most. The point is that all the characteristics he has going for him are based on the social hierarchy. Outsized wealth is one of those unearned characteristics.
He's rich *and* white *and* male *and* straight *and* Christian (socially if not spiritually)
Beyond that he's got *nothing*. It's not like he has a talent and just happened to be rich and white and so on. He has no talent. Even the talents he claims to have (great negotiator for his own multimillion dollar private real estate business) are based hugely on privilege.
In a society where everyone was judged on merit he'd be toast.