ディベート Article: 26 Daily Effects of White Privilege that White Women Don't Even Realize Exist

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26 Daily Effects of White Privilege that White Women Don't Even Realize Exist

posted by Cinders

Peggy McIntosh, 作者 of "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"

Peggy McIntosh, author of "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"

From Peggy McIntosh's 記事 available in full link. The rest of this 記事 will be directly quoted from that. I 投稿されました the whole link as well, but for the tl;dr crowd, this is the meat and potatoes of it.

My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, または as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will. My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow "them" to be もっと見る like "us."

1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting または purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.

3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral または pleasant to me.

4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed または harassed.

5. I can turn on the テレビまたは open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.

6. When I am told about our national heritage または about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.

7. I can be sure that my children will be 与えられた curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.

9. I can go into a 音楽ショップ and count on finding the 音楽 of my race represented, into a スーパーマーケット, スーパーマーケット and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's ショップ and find someone who can cut my hair.

10. Whether I use checks, credit cards, または cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.

11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

12. I can swear, または dress in secondhand clothes, または not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to bad morals, the poverty, または the illiteracy of my race.

13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.

14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.

15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.

16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world's majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.

17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much i fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.

18. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to "the person in charge," I will be facing a person of my race.

19. If a traffic cop pulls me over または if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.

20. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children's magazines featuring people of my race.

21. I can go ホーム from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, または feared.

22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.

23. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in または will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.

24. I can be sure that if I need legal または medical help, my race will not work against me.

25. If my day, week, または年 is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode または situation whether it has racial overtones.

26. I can choose blemish cover または bandages in "flesh" color and have them もっと見るまたは less match my skin.

In my class and place, I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in individual acts of meanness によって members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth.

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pandawinx you do realize that with the no.3 reason, there is such thing as white racism. and Asian racism. Oh well, good article anyway! the other points made sense! -pandawinx. :)

Cinders Number 3 (I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me) directly follows number 2 (If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live). Though she doesn't say it explicitly here, she is talking middle to upper middle class neighborhoods, which, in the United States, are composed primarily of White people. To acknowledge white racism exists, as I said in the other pick, is important, but the same could be said about male sexism. There are chauvinist women who are sexist against men, but it doesn't change the massive amount of sexism that exists against women. It's important to keep in mind when discussing sexism, to be all inclusive, but there's a reason we hear more about sexism against women, especially institutionalized sexism. It's the same with race. It's also important to note that some of it exists as a result of sheer ignorance on behalf of white people. I used to be incredibly ignorant about these matters. I don't mean mal-intentioned whites who have negative thoughts about minorities. I literally mean whites who simply just don't know any better, who are usually well-meaning, and just want to help. Take, for example, the image of the White Hero, especially apparent in such inspirational films like "Dangerous Minds," where in the white teacher comes into a predominantly minority school and teaches the kids, essentially, how to act white to achieve in a white world. Though well intentioned, these stories come off as portraying the white person as the savior, and the minority students as those in need of saving. And this isn't a modern story, either. Google "White Man's Burden" if you don't know what I'm talking about.

harold Good article, though it isn't clear what parts are quoted directly from the original article and which are your commentary/bookends. I have to say that it still bugs me to talk about race and color as synonymous, so in reading this I had to substitute "skin color" (or a grammatically correct variant such as "people with my skin color") for every instance of "race". I'm also having a hard time wrapping my head around cases where #1 would NOT apply, honestly. Maybe "in every location" is implied? But I don't think that that's valid, either. #11 is an illusion, of course. (edit: fixed typo)

Cinders Everything but the preface is quoted directly from the article, including the quote at the end in bold. The last words I said in this soapbox were "meat and potatoes". The whole article is obviously longer, and unpacks some of these things.

pandawinx i just found it a bit odd that you see it as a (quote) "White privilege" when clearly it is whatever race is the minority in that society. Actually, there are more black people than white people in the united states.

Cinders Can you rephrase that? I'm not quite sure I understand what you're saying. What she's talking about are things that she doesn't have to consider as a member of the majority ruling class, not the minority. Additionally, I don't know where you're getting your facts, but according to the 2010 Census, 74.8% of the United States is white, not black.

Lunalovely This article is so true, sadly. I could pass for white, but im actually Latino, and thank god I live in a place full of latinos, but ive always hated the racism

VenusInFurs So I have to preface my comment by saying that I'm a Canadian who lives just outside Toronto and I'm half European and half First Nations Canadian (native), however I appear white (aside from my hair). My concern here is that the construct of "white privilege" is based largely on the concept of skin colour. However, for many people, including myself, skin colour is not always an accurate predictor of privilege. I grew up on a reservation in Northern Ontario and as a result I've experienced my share of disadvantage. If I chose to live there now, I would still be living in similar circumstances... To give you perspective on the living conditions common to First Nations communities... there was a recent crisis on the Attiwapiskat First Nations where 7 children attempted suicide in one day. This is in a settlement with a population of about 2000 people so naturally 7 attempts in one day is an alarmingly disproportionate number. My point is this... Most of the criteria for white privilege list about would apply to me (although some of the examples would apply to nearly everyone). This speaks to the fact that a person's skin colour is not an accurate indicator of someone's ethnic background and so can't be trusted to measure privilege. And anyone who would argue that I still enjoy white privilege I would like to remind you that plenty of hair dressers have messed up my hair too :)

MouthyHeifer 4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed. Women not being harassed? Really? Ever hear of intersectionality? This is a list of white privilege. While most of it applies to white women, the fact of being female leads to a lack of privilege in many areas, although, granted, not as severe as the lack of privilege for women of color.

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