https://contemporaryracism.org/2646/low-prejudicehigh-prejudice/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Mon, 19 May 2014 19:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/2646/low-prejudicehigh-prejudice/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Thu, 01 May 2014 07:05:40 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=2646#comment-410 I think that college students in particular are committed to promoting egalitarian views because it re-assures them that the work they put in in order to get into college was “worth it” and not valued differently on the basis of race or class. If college students truly believe that everyone is equal and starts at the same starting line of the race of life, then there is no guilt that needs to be acknowledged–either your typical white guilt of being a white person on a majority white campus and wondering why that is, or class guilt, that your socioeconomic status afforded you more advantages than you’d rather acknowledge. It’s very much in the best interest of most college students then to maintain that, but one can hope that taking a social sciences course might enlighten them enough to drop that kind of ideology.

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