From McIntosh’s point of view, racism is instructed as something which puts a person of a different ethnic origin at a limitation than the fair-skinned individual that is part of the white majority. Furthermore, she realized an oversight within the teaching of racism: if some are disadvantaged, a significant result must be that another is placed in a position of higher advantage. In other words, white privilege means that a specific individual holds more benefits and assets in their high position. McIntosh perceives that whites are taught “to think that their lives as a morally neutral, normative, and average ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, it’s seen as work allowing “them” to be more like “us.” This type of teaching creates
