A recognition that does not silence the voices of those most affected by white privilege; a recognition that does not ignore where it comes from and why it has staying power. Stossel, John; Gena Binkley (November 5, 2006). "Does White Privilege Exist in America? Scholars Debate Whether Society Overlooks Minorities". 20/20. ABC News.

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This idea of white privilege as unseen, unconscious advantages took hold. It became easy for people to interpret McIntosh’s version of white privilege—fairly or not—as mostly a matter of cosmetics and inconvenience. Where is my privilege when I apply for a position in a non-profit that helps those of color? The term White Privilege is offensive at best.

Boot, Max (December 27, 2017). "2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege". Foreign Policy.a b Stephen, James (1824). The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated. Cambridge University Press. p.179. Kelly, Ben, and Nura Gili (2009), " Conflict and collaboration – a sociology of knowledge production in the field of Indigenous Studies", Australian Social Policy Conference. Hua Hsu, a Vassar College professor of English, opened his The New Yorker review of the 2015 MTV film White People with the remark: "like the robot in a movie slowly discovering that it is, indeed, a robot, it feels as though we are living in the moment when white people, on a generational scale, have become self-aware". [49] Noting that "white people have begun to understand themselves in the explicit terms of identity politics, long the province of those on the margins", Hsu ascribes this change in self-awareness to a generational change, "one of strange byproducts of the Obama era". Hsu writes that discourse on the nature of whiteness "isn't a new discussion, by any means, but it has never seemed quite so animated". [49] Allen, Theodore W. "The Invention of the White Race," Vol. 1: "Racial Oppression and Social Control" (Verso Books, 1994, New Expanded Edition 2012, ISBN 978-1-84467-769-6). Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil (September 2004). "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment in Labor Market Discrimination". American Economic Review. 94 (4): 991–1013. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.321.8621. doi: 10.1257/0002828042002561.

Jane Jeong Trenka (2009). Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea. Graywolf Press. p.148. ISBN 978-1555975296. To adoptees, what is Western is always easier to see - Baskin-Robbins, Krispy Kreme, the American military, the English language, the fetishists so much more visible and happy here because everyone want to be loved, even if they have to use their white privilege to get it. Lozada, Carlos (June 18, 2020). "White fragility is real. But 'White Fragility' is flawed". The Washington Post . Retrieved March 18, 2021.Those interpretations overshadow the origins of white privilege, as well as its present-day ability to influence systemic decisions. They overshadow the fact that white privilege is both a legacy and a cause of racism. And they overshadow the words of many people of color, who for decades recognized white privilege as the result of conscious acts and refused to separate it from historic inequities.

Just as people of color did nothing to deserve this unequal treatment, white people did not “earn” disproportionate access to compassion and fairness. They receive it as the byproduct of systemic racism and bias.We recognize that the post, what was contained in that post, caused a bit of a public uproar, and there were a lot of people that saw that and did not like that post and had negative reactions to that — thought it was an inappropriate post — and we recognize that.” Holly Randell-Moon has said that news media are geared towards white people and their interests and that this is an example of white privilege. [167] Michele Lobo claims that white neighborhoods are normally identified as "good quality", while "ethnic" neighborhoods may become stigmatized, degraded, and neglected. [168] Olson, Ruth. "White Privilege in Schools." Beyond Heroes and Holidays. 1998. Endid Lee. Teaching for Change, 1998 Some scholars [ who?] have claimed that for Australian whites, another aspect of privilege is the ability to identify with a global diaspora of other white people in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. This privilege contrasts with the separation of Indigenous Australians from other indigenous peoples in southeast Asia. [166] [182] They also claim that global political issues such as climate change are framed in terms of white actors and effects on countries that are predominantly white. [183] Lopez, German (August 12, 2017). "The Charlottesville protests are white fragility in action". Vox . Retrieved October 12, 2018.