[blackjack160]

Alexis Ohanian said it better and in a less incendiary way @ HN's event in NYC last year:

Being a middle-class white male with loving parents is like playing the game of life on easy mode. One has an obligation to do good things for the world - in acknowledgement that there is more to be done and that others deserve the same environment you were born into. (Paraphrasing)

That's a balanced viewpoint, one that's hard to resent.

[unit_testing]

Why add the "white" qualifier?

Think about it: By many measures, all things being equal, it's actually (institutionally!) easier to be a non-white (non-Asian) male.

The all things being equal qualifier is extremely important, of course—being born white is correlated with being born middle-class with loving parents. But it in-and-of-itself, it does not make things easier.

If you are born black, it's less likely that you will be born middle class, and it's far less likely that you will have loving parents. But that's issue we need to focus on.

Being born white does not make your life easier. Being born middle-class with loving parents does. Love your kids—don't teach them to hate themselves (and their peers) if they're white.

[MaysonL]

Why add the "white"? Because in general, it's true.

[smarsh]

I would argue that it is in fact easy to resent having one's accomplishments belittled on the basis of race, gender and sexuality.

Even if it is, generally speaking, a true statement when applied to the demographic as a whole, individuals will always bristle at such language.