The following is a 4 message exchange between 4 users
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
Why do you think some people struggle to understand the concept of 'white privilege' and how would you explain it?
@42C8TQD 2mos2MO
People struggle to understand what they're unwilling to try to understand. Humans are obsessed with making chaos make sense. We label and organize and put everything in buckets to figure out where/how we belong and who is the "other".
'white privilege' is as simple as rules for thee but not for me.
@9KKK2TQ2mos2MO
"white privilege" was a concept used before the civil rights movement that was putting white people above other races for everything, nowadays this is illegal and 99% percent of people don't agree with.
@42C8TQD2mos2MO
I wish I was at optimistic as you to believe 99% of them population doesn't agree with it. It happens every day so either people just aren't paying attention to their actions to realize how their own bias impacts their decisions and interactions with others (entirely likely) or as the question suggests, they don't understand it to begin with and therefore aren't trying to avoid it.
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