The purpose of understanding your privilege isn’t to make you feel something. Not guilt, not shame, not anything else. It’s to help you understand that you have a set of things you take for granted that other people don’t have, so that you can change the way you act.

tacit: Some thoughts on privilege: Look, it isn’t about your guilt. (via brutereason)

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Wed, Nov 27th 2013 at 23 PM