you're old enough to know it's been here your entire life
Nope! And I am plenty old enough to know it is quite new.
It was coined in academia by Peggy McIntosh in 1988. Didn't go anywhere until pushed along by the Huffington Press during the Obama years and then the BLM era
made it the fucking everyday thing.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortn...ople-tell-me-ive-changed-their-lives-n1837990
"Gina Crosley-Corcoran in her
Huffington Post article, "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person", says that she was initially hostile to the idea that she had white privilege, initially believing, "my white skin didn't do shit to prevent me from experiencing poverty", until she was directed to read
Peggy McIntosh's "Unpacking the invisible knapsack". According to Crosley-Corcoran, "the concept of
intersectionality recognizes that people can be privileged in some ways and definitely not privileged in others."
[11] Other writers have noted that the "academic-sounding concept of white privilege" sometimes elicits defensiveness and misunderstanding among white people, in part due to how the concept of white privilege was rapidly brought into the mainstream spotlight through
social media campaigns such as
Black Lives Matter.
[12] Cory Weinburg, writing for
Inside Higher Ed, has also stated that the concept of white privilege is frequently misinterpreted by non-academics because
it is an academic concept that has been recently been brought into the mainstream. Academics interviewed by Weinburg, who have been otherwise studying white privilege undisturbed for decades, have been taken aback with the seemingly-sudden hostility from
right-wing critics since 2014.
[13]" ( Wiki)
