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When you are surrounded by other people with the same privilege as you, you equate their success, their challenges and their downfalls with universal experience. And when you rarely if ever experience unfairness, or have the ability to overcome it, you always see it as an excuse.
Your experience is the baseline for how things “should” exist. When the playing field tilts toward equity, things might get a little less easy for people with privilege - probably far less so than it seems, but when easy is the baseline, less easy feels like being cheated.
If easy is what you’ve always known, equity feels like a challenge and “overcoming it” feels righteous. Likewise, the inability to “overcome” equity feels like deprivation, which is perceived as oppression, and oppression makes people angry.
The way to resolve it is to make people with privilege understand that theirs is not, in fact, a baseline, universal experience, and rather than oppression, equity means that no one has priority over anyone else.
As for how to convince them...I’m still working on that answer.
As for how to convince them...I’m still working on that answer.
