Cenk Uygur
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STUDY: White People Believe They Face Greater Hardships Than Others
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October 3, 2015
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5:08Now PlayingA new study by Stanford University suggests that those who want to deny white privilege exists do so by saying that they have overcome hardships in their lives. The feel that they have not gained any special treatment by the color of their skin, but misunderstand what the term “white privilege" means. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business have found that white people respond to evidence that they are privileged by their race by insisting that they face greater hardships in life.
In a study published in the November issue of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, L. Taylor Phillips and Brian S. Lowery point out that progress on racial equality is limited by the fact that many whites deny the existence of inequities.
“Despite this reality, policy makers and power brokers continue to debate whether racial privilege even exists and whether to address such inequity,” the researchers noted. “One reason for this inaction might be an unwillingness among Whites to acknowledge racial privilege — acknowledgment that may be difficult given that Whites are motivated to believe that meritocratic systems and personal virtues determine life outcomes.”
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