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)
I haven’t read the entire piece, but this quote right here has a lot to do with this blog. -MG
(via thisisthinprivilege)