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			white privilege, a social relation 
 1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.  
 b. A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc. 
 2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non–white persons. 
 3. a. The special right or immunity attaching to white persons as a social relation; prerogative. 
 b. display of white privilege, a social expression of a white person or persons demanding to be treated as a member or members of the socially privileged class. 
 4. a. To invest white persons with a privilege or privileges; to grant to white persons a particular right or immunity; to benefit or favor specially white persons; to invest white persons with special honorable distinctions.  
 b. To avail oneself of a privilege owing to one as a white person.  
 5. To authorize or license of white person or persons what is forbidden or wrong for non–whites; to justify, excuse.  
 6. To give to white persons special freedom or immunity from some liability or burden to which non–white persons are subject; to exempt
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
			
			
			
				 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
		 
	
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