The idea of privilege (including concepts such as White privilege, Male privilege, Able bodied privilege, thin privilege, heterosexual privilege etc) tends to be one of the concepts that gets the most push-back, particularly from members of dominant groups. While most people are fairly on board with ideas of discrimination and poor treatment of minority groups they have a much harder time seeing the advantages that come for simply being part of a majority group. Discuss the idea of privilege using one or more of the following questions
What were your ideas of the concept of privilege before coming to this class? Is this a concept that you have struggled with?
How do stereotypes and prejudice create and reinforce privilege?
Because privilege is often based on stereotypes how do we combat it?
How do we undo privilege for majority groups (and thus equalize chances of minority groups) without majority groups feeling they are being discriminated against?
Topic 3- How does age impact experiences in society? How does age intersect with race/ethnicity and gender?
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