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Students Earn Extra Credit by Determining Their Level of ‘White Privilege’

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The trifecta of 487s! County, State and University! My response to folks saying this is always, “so what”? Liberals have no response to that statement. They want you to feel offended. With that said, what kind of person studies sociology anyway?

Sociology professor Dae Elliot of San Diego State University has offered her students the opportunity to earn extra credit by filling out a form that reveals their unique level of “white privilege.” The form was inspired by the work of educator Peggy McIntosh, who helped popularize the concept of “white privilege” in the late 1980s. McIntosh famously compared “white privilege” to an invisible knapsack of social advantages that often go unnoticed by those who benefit from them. Read more here.