Essay On Normalization Of Privilege Whiteness

“All these words, describing racial subcategories, seem neutral on their face like equivalent titles. But however the subcategories are listed, however neutrally the words are expressed, these words mask a system of power, and that system privileges whiteness” The categories of the words race and gender are not the only way to describe how it defines what subcategories of words the white privileged uses to pacify minorities to make them feel as though they are equal to them, which in turn obscures the power of the privileged whites. This is relevant because the subcategories of words does not create equality between the “white privileged” and the “not privileged”. It begets an illusion and does not create a juxtaposition of what may seem
This is relevant because their definition of success and fail although opposite in meaning, means the same. It does not take into account what they consider to be “normal” in their privileged world can be contested by those who they consider to be aberrant. If those who step outside of the “normalization of the privileged” and is successful, their success may be only success in their eyes, not to be truly recognized as such (failure). Not conforming to the normality of the privileged, put those who are affiliated with them, (but not privileged), on the peripheral edge of trying to be accepted. The opportunity to think outside of the box does not fit into what is considered to be societal norms. To go outside of the box and not adhere to the status quo leads to discrimination and criticism to those crossing those boundaries and the privileged does not want to relate to what is “not considered