white privilege - Quillette

The Vox Formula: Telling Privileged People What They Already Believe

The confusion of having an elite, educated status with having information, facts, and knowledge should by now be familiar—it is a move that journalists have made repeatedly to capture a high-end market and then clothe that market-driven decision as a journalistic value.

Batya Ungar-Sargon

28 Oct 2021 · 8 min read

Quillette's Best on Critical Social Justice

According to this culturally relative view of the world, then, truth is arbitrary and exclusive, rather than evidentiary and shared. The consequence is divisiveness.

Quillette

21 Aug 2021 · 4 min read

Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism

The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.

Wilfred Reilly

4 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

NARRATED: What They Don't Teach You at the University of Washington's Ed School

Greg Ellis reads What They Don’t Teach You at the University of Washington’s Ed School, Nick Wilson’s account of spending a year at what turned out to be Neo-Marxist madrasa. It was published in Quillette on April 5, 2019.

Quillette

23 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast 37 – Kathrine Jebsen Moore on How Knitting Was Captured by the Social Justice Cult

Jonathan Kay talks to Kathrine Jebsen Moore about how the Instagram knitting community has been invaded by vengeful Social Justice mobs. Kathrine has written about this strange phenomenon twice for Quillette, once on 17th February, and once on 7th June.

Quillette / Kathrine Jebsen Moore

14 Jun 2019 · 1 min read

Unpacking Peggy McIntosh's Knapsack by William Ray

Greg Ellis reads Unpacking Peggy McIntosh’s Knapsack, William Ray’s critical essay about McIntosh’s seminal 1989 paper that popularised the concept of ‘white privilege.’ It was published in Quillette on 29th August 2018.

Quillette / William Ray

14 Jun 2019 · 1 min read

What Does Teaching ‘White Privilege’ Actually Accomplish? Not What You Might Think (Or Hope)

But there is a danger that, by talking about this inequality as an all-consuming phenomenon, we will end up creating a flattened and unfair image that portrays all whites in all situations and all contexts as benefiting from unearned advantages.

Zaid Jilani

23 May 2019 · 8 min read

The White Privilege of Being Black

The sad reality is that Martin had no choice but to burble bromides if she wished to remain a member of her progressive intellectual clique.

Allen Farrington

24 Jan 2019 · 7 min read

Quillette Podcast 7 - Jonathan Church on 'White Privilege,' 'White Fragility' and 'Unconscious Bias'

Associate editor Toby Young talks to Jonathan Church, Quillette contributor and economist, about ‘white privilege,’ ‘white fragility,’ ‘color-blind racism,’ ‘unconscious bias,’ ‘micro-aggressions’ and why the Social Justice Left is more interested in punishing whites than understanding the complexity of racial inequality.

Quillette

20 Dec 2018 · 1 min read

White Privilege Is Real, but Well-Meaning White Liberals Are Helping to Perpetuate It

Rather than whites being responsible for the perpetuation of these stereotypes—and, by extension, white privilege—they are maintained by all groups as they interact with each other.

Eric Kaufmann

27 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

Unpacking Peggy McIntosh's Knapsack

Her ‘experiential’ list enumerating the ways in which she benefits from being born with white skin simply confuses racial privilege with the financial advantages she has always been fortunate enough to enjoy.

William Ray

29 Aug 2018 · 10 min read

The Problem with ‘White Fragility’ Theory

The suggestion that a viewpoint comes from a “racialized frame of reference” is, in fact, an expression of doubt about my ability to be objective.

Jonathan Church

24 Aug 2018 · 10 min read