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 @9QQW925from Ontario  answered…9mos9MO

They have most likely been influenced by their families or generation and considered it "normal" or "normalized" behavior.

 @9QQHFMCCommunistfrom Ontario  answered…9mos9MO

people struggle because they get it mixed up with racism, I would explain it as the benifit of doubt letting you do something just because you're white

 @9QQGGYJfrom Ontario  answered…9mos9MO

White privilege is a little bit like a house in a way, you don't think about it if you have one, but anybody without one is automatically treated worse for no real reason.

 @9QFM9P7 from Ontario  answered…9mos9MO

White privilege is a farce. We need to stop hyper focussing on race. These divisive policies do nothing to better society or cohesion.

 @9KB9XSZLiberalfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

I think it's because white people are so privileged they don't understand or accept white privileged.

 @9KK2GFDfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Because it is something that was considered the norm, historically that is. It is something that has been seen before in the past and in the current timeline. Some POC are struggling and are still discriminated against while white people are given privilege that gives them an easy life. Those people who struggle to comprehend the concept of white privilege are those who do or may have white privilege. They struggle to understand because they do not know how to struggle for things that they already have. Or because they were taught aware of their privilege.

 @9KDLLZSfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Many people struggle to understand the concept of white privilege, because that is what they experience themselves.

 @9K9PJ26from Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

 @9KJX2DXConservativefrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Probably becuase they were born with that privilage or jsut werent taught it i dont really know though

 @9KDLKJJfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Everyone wants to play the victim card. In the 21st century is this still a thing?

 @9KBPFDQfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Some may not understand white privilege because they may not know how other races are treated, and may not realize how bad racism currently is.

 @9KBGZHYfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

If you have grown up as a white person in a terrible and unfortunate nome, then that white person will not be able to understand nor went to believe in write privedge because someone or a movement is telling that person they have privilege when trey told do not. Same goes for ablackperson that grew up very provided and doesn't want that victim complex and want to be overall victimized.

 @9KDLL8WConservativefrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

 @9KJ8T54from Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

I think some people struggle because they don’t experience it themselves and it’s hard for them to put themselves in another persons shoes, that being a person of colour/visible minority.

 @9KB34G7Green from Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

 @9K98JR4from Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

White privliege is knowing you wont be treated different because of your skin color

 @9KJZGZ9from Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Many people see the idea of 'white privilege' as a personal attack or as a dismissal of the hardships experienced by white people who may be experiencing some of the same difficulties as are disproportionately experienced by people of colour.
In their defensive reactions, they lose the mental space to understand that 'white privilege' explains the objective knowledge our institutions and culture disproportionately disadvantage the ethnic minorities who often had no voice in their design. The privilege of white people is that some of these disadvantages are so unlikely to affect us that we had not even considered them as possibilities. White privilege is not an attack on white people, but a call to shut up and listen for once.

 @9K9JDF9Conservativefrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

some people struggle to undertsand beacuse they are so used to that privlage and was not taught enough

 @9KBKFBNfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

some people dont understand the the white privilege in the past affects current economic situations through generational wealth

 @9K94V2Xfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Because white people have never experienced racism so they don't know what its like.

 @9KJZH2Xfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

People struggle to understand the concept of white privilege because they weren't around back when slavery existed. White privilege still remains from back when slavery was a thing. White privilege is when a white person gets more rights or privileges than another race and white people are treated better.

 @9KFPG7Wfrom Ontario  answered…1yr1Y

Some people struggle to understand this concept because we have been privileged for so long and have gotten too used to it. I would explain this to be us neglecting to acknowledge what white peoples have done to black people centuries ago.

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