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@9QQW9259mos9MO
They have most likely been influenced by their families or generation and considered it "normal" or "normalized" behavior.
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
@9QQGGYJ9mos9MO
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 9mos9MO
White privilege is a farce. We need to stop hyper focussing on race. These divisive policies do nothing to better society or cohesion.
I think it's because white people are so privileged they don't understand or accept white privileged.
@9KK2GFD1yr1Y
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.
@9KDLLZS1yr1Y
Many people struggle to understand the concept of white privilege, because that is what they experience themselves.
@9K9PJ261yr1Y
one can deny the existence of white privilege because they cannot see it
@9KJX2DXConservative1yr1Y
Probably becuase they were born with that privilage or jsut werent taught it i dont really know though
@9KDLKJJ1yr1Y
Everyone wants to play the victim card. In the 21st century is this still a thing?
@9KBPFDQ1yr1Y
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.
@9KBGZHY1yr1Y
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.
@9KDLL8WConservative1yr1Y
White privilege is just another term YOU told us about to divide us.
@9KJ8T541yr1Y
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.
I wouldn’t try to explain it I think it’s a dumb topic
@9K98JR41yr1Y
White privliege is knowing you wont be treated different because of your skin color
@9KJZGZ91yr1Y
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.
@9K9JDF9Conservative1yr1Y
some people struggle to undertsand beacuse they are so used to that privlage and was not taught enough
@9KBKFBN1yr1Y
some people dont understand the the white privilege in the past affects current economic situations through generational wealth
@9K94V2X1yr1Y
Because white people have never experienced racism so they don't know what its like.
@9KJZH2X1yr1Y
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.
@9KFPG7W1yr1Y
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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