I was being a little facetious, but there’s some truth in it. White men have a lot of privilege, that’s fairly well accepted, and something I know from first h

I was being a little facetious, but there’s some truth in it. White men have a lot of privilege, that’s fairly well accepted, and something I know from first hand experience. That privilege is what leads to things like mansplaining and overconfidence in one’s own opinions, or even deeming one’s own opinions to be facts. It leads there because the privileged are less likely to receive pushback on their ideas, more likely to receive praise, or even funding for their ideas, and society treats them as overall more correct. Huge generalisations of course, but so is most of this thread.