I like this because it so perfectly illustrates how context matters. It's like a meta-meme. The number of people who long to have a job working like the guy in picture two and for whom it would be the chance to feel like the guy in picture one... I cannot count them, but they're numerous. Glorious.
This is really a good point. A reasonable blue-collar job is a 'low point' for many people who live with white privilege.
OH, there are those of us, myself included, who've been white and supremely, power-getting-cut-off, kicked-out-of-your-house, poor and white. My father was disabled, my mother a waitress, I the oldest of 5 boys. I was also a minority, white people made up 3% of where I lived for 300 miles in any direction.
But you know what? I'm crazy well off now in comparison. My hispanic friend? Still poor. My other white friend from the middle class? Middle class. I escaped, due in no small part to the automatic positive assumptions made about white males.
Yea, I worked hard. But I also believed in myself. You see, it's easy to believe that you can make it when you see others like you having made it.