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Isn't skin color based privilege the same though? If someone darkens their skin so everyone perceives them as black instead of white, then that person lost thei
by 7steps2much 5y ago
Isn't skin color based privilege the same though? If someone darkens their skin so everyone perceives them as black instead of white, then that person lost their privileges of that point forth.
White privilege is very much a treatment by society. Racism and sexism are both enacted upon by people based on social norms.
- mc32 5y agoRachel Dolazal. The overarching phenomenon is ‘dominant privilege’. In a gender studies program certain people have privilege. In Japan certain people have privilege, within a ghetto certain people have privilege, within Fortune 500s certain people have privilege. However people mainly focus on certain dominant groups in select socio economic areas of the US. But this phenomenon is found everywhere.