A lot of prejudicial or exlusionary behaviour is invisible if you're not the one consciously committing it.
I do not make lewd comments to women on the bus, or catcall schoolgirls from my car, but I believe it happens (or every woman I know is lying).
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If you're shortlisted for a job, you don't need to think about the people who weren't, or why.
When you're let into a club you don't see what happens to the person behind you in the queue.
You sit on the Tube, you don't have to wonder who couldn't get to the platform.
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You'll never know who didn't get a place at your university, or who was turned down for an acting job in this play, or how the other person in the waiting room got treated by your doctor.
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So the concept of "privilege" as I understand it is shining a light on those moments:
When you got waved through, accepted, shown respect, or even just ignored as not needing attention.
And someone else didn't...
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Because an assumption was made about their skin colour, appearance, body type, sexuality, whatever...
Or a need they have was never taken into account.
And you did not face the same assumption or the same obstacle.
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