psyc 363 - ch. 8

• Deny and minimize
• Blame it on the victim
• Call it something else
• Better this way
• Doesn't count if you don't mean it
• One of the good ones
• Sick and tired

DBCBDOS - don't blame charlie brown, didn't open stuff

• Deny problem exists > can also exist in believing non-privileged groups are better off
• Admitting problem but minimize effects > jokes> "stop whining"

If there's no oppression, there's no privilege > no problem

Non-privileged groups are lazy > deserve to be where they are

Women are "asking for it"

Instead of sexism > "battle of the sexes", "differences in communication style"

Because it's so prevalent + male/female relationships such an integral system > need to make light of in order to not see it

• Result of denial + renaming privilege and oppression.
• i.e. blacks prefer to live with blacks (but they actually prefer integrated neighborhoods)
• i.e. it's not a patriarchal system > women naturally want to be dominated by strong males

• It's not racism if I didn't think racially > the result is that the act is not racist.
• Does not address harm to individual.
• Consequences matter!

don't see themselves as racist, they're not part of the problem or the solution

Individualistic thinking > bad things happen socially b/c of bad people > I'm not one of the bad ones = not part of the problem > silence > fuels oppression

• Everyone has problems > privileged groups feel put upon when faced with issues of oppression
• Reminder of uncomfortableness
• Allows privileged groups to feel like victims

Very little mention of white privilege.

By getting on the hook

• Commitment - to finding solutions
• Obliged - connects one to others, increases awareness of effects of one's actions on others
• Involved - in something bigger