White privilege isn’t some abstruse notion from the outer reaches of the critical theory literature. It’s an empirical fact, and not one that people should have much difficulty getting their heads around.
What specific empirical evidence could convince you that it might not be an 'empirical fact' within a particular culture & time? Give me three examples.
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An audit study that shows, contra (e.g.) Bertrand Mullainathan (2003), no callback advantage to whites vs. nonwhites in job searches.
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A police body-cam analysis that shows, contra Voigt et al. (2017), that police don't speak more respectfully to whites than blacks.
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Given that Asian Americans are, on an empirical basis, the top beneficiaries of this socioeconomic "privilege" -- highest educational attainments, highest incomes, lowest incarceration rates, longest life expectancies -- what sense does it make to call it "White"?
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