McIntosh's White Privilege Argument

 In McIntosh's White Privilege article, McIntosh stated an interesting argument that I never thought about until I read this article. She states that while privileged men try to improve the status of women in society, they wont consider the option of lessening their privileges nor support the idea. She compares this situation towards those who are privileged and white, and she questions why those who have white privilege haven't consider lessening their privilege as an attempt to come into terms with those who are unprivileged. Those that are privileged, and have chosen to help those who are not, focus more and more on improving the disadvantages of others, but never take a second to consider the fact that maybe another answer to improvement would be lessening the advantages of those who are privileged.
 The inability to recognize on your own the unearned privileges being handed out is one of the many issues attached to those who are white privileged. Another issue that McIntosh points out is that, as a white privileged person, she was not taught as seeing herself as an oppressor. The reason why is because in this American society we are taught to see ourselves as individuals who are dependent on our moral wills. To work things out in her head she identified the effects that white privilege has on her life. Many of her conditions explained unearned advantages given by luck or birth, but at the same time other conditions were systematically made to confer dominance over certain groups. Moreover, that dominance's existence is purposely denied or unacknowledged everyday by those who have the position of dominance in order to maintain the idea that everyone, privileged and unprivileged, are equal. 

By making a list of her own privileges McIntosh was becoming more aware of what she received from this society and it made her think of what she actually deserved. Youtube member AJ+, a news group, interviewed pedestrians on the streets about what white privilege is in their opinion. One of them admitted to benefiting from white privilege and listed what she unjustly earned on a daily basis because of white privilege.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQK8H0z-irM