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The episode was viewed by 8.4 million viewers, and retained 88 percent of its lead-in My Name Is Earl audience. [16] An encore presentation of the episode on August 15 received a 1.9 rating/6 percent share and was viewed by over 4.6 million viewers and retained 100 percent of its lead-in audience. [17] "Dwight's Speech" received mostly positive ...
White privilege means not having nearly every deck of cards stacked against you from the moment you’re born, just because you happen to be a certain race. White privilege is so misunderstood ...
White defensiveness is the defensive response by white people to discussions of societal discrimination, structural racism, and white privilege.The term has been applied to characterize the responses of white people to portrayals of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonization, or scholarship on the legacy of those systems in modern society.
Although Marxists tend to focus on class consciousness (or its absence) among the proletariat, the upper classes in society can also think and act in a class-conscious way. As Leonard Fein pointed out, "The very rich have been well aware of their class privilege and have labored mightily to protect and defend it".
The Atlantic has written that the intention behind the essay was to inspire "self-reflection, enhancing their capacity for empathy and compassion". [7] It has been described by Vice as one of the most authoritative texts on the subject of white privilege, [8] and The Harvard Gazette have called it a "groundbreaking article" and the most important of McIntosh's academic career. [9]
An example of a question of privilege is a motion to go into executive session. [2] A question of privilege cannot interrupt a vote or the verification of a vote. [3] When a question of privilege affects a single member (rather than the entire assembly), it is called a question of personal privilege. [2]
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism is a 2018 book written by Robin DiAngelo about race relations in the United States.An academic with experience in diversity training, DiAngelo coined the term "white fragility" in 2011 to describe what she views as any defensive instincts or reactions that a white person experiences when questioned about race or made to ...
White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.