White privilege
A US knapsack, sold to Year 9 in an NSW lesson. The census never asked the question.
White privilege is the implicit societal advantages afforded to White people relative to those who experience racism.
Racism. No Way! is the national anti-racism site for Australian schools, “managed by the NSW Department of Education on behalf of all Australian schools.” Its definition: white privilege is “the implicit societal advantages afforded to White people.” Francis Kendall is quoted: an “institutional… set of benefits granted to those of us who, by race, resemble the people who dominate.” Students are told to see society “systemically and structurally.” Privilege for sale is a Years 9–10 activity. The footnote is Peggy McIntosh, 1989, Massachusetts.
This card files that definition. It does not file “racism never happens in a classroom.”
What did have a receipt:
- The same site’s institutional racism page: racism “structured into political and social institutions,” including when governments “do not view themselves as racist.” That is the CRT noun, without the brand.
- The privilege activity cites McIntosh’s Invisible Knapsack and a US “Privilege For Sale” kit. The note on the page: race is “a social construct.” The lesson still sorts children by how much privilege they can buy.
- The IPA Schools Program called the HASS years “undertones of Critical Race Theory.” The official URL does not say CRT. It says white privilege, systemic, institutional.
Grammar: afforded to White people. Logic: a US essay is not an Australian census. Rhetoric: privilege.