Indigenous Rising

[Dominant groups don’t see privilege as a problem…]
because they don’t know it exists in the first place. They’re oblivious to it. the reality of privilege doesn’t occur to them because they don’t go out of their way to see it or ask about it and because no one dares bring it up for fear of making things worse. Dominant groups have no idea how their privilege oppresses others. This obliviousness allows them to cruise along and tend to the details of their own lives (which are, of course, considerable, just like everyone else’s), with only an occasional sense of trouble somewhere “out there" just beyond the fringe of their consciousness. This lack of awareness also gives them a low tolerance for hearing about the trouble: when the normal state of affairs is silence, any mention of it feels like an imposition.