In 2016, on the 65th anniversary of Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora, the League's president criticized the "dominant Pakeha culture" in New Zealand, and embedded Pākehā privilege. They say that the term ‘white privilege’ reinforces stereotypes, reifies conceptualisations of race, antagonises potential allies and creates even greater resistance to change. Those who are in the majority, usually white people, gain "unearned privileges not founded on injustice. For example, the use of ‘white privilege’ can backfire when it fails to resonate with whites disadvantaged by class, gender or religion.

With roots in European colonialism and imperialism, [3] and the Atlantic slave trade, white privilege has developed [4] in circumstances that have broadly sought to protect white racial privileges, [5] various national citizenships, and other rights or special benefits. The police killing of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in 2020 ignited a wave of protests across the globe and intense discussions of anti-black racism. Asian-Americans, for example, although lauded as a "model minority", rarely rise to positions high in the workplace: only 8 of the Fortune 500 companies have Asian-American CEOs, making up 1. By the mid-2000s, the term white privilege had been adopted by many educators and activists in the US.According to the studies' authors, these findings suggest that representing inequality in terms of outgroup disadvantage allows privileged group members to avoid the negative implications of inequality.

But we belong to a profession that does not tolerate, practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination. According to Cadzen a child's language development should be evaluated in terms of his progress toward the norms for his particular speech community. What if you're watching the news, and you're white, are you left feeling invisible in the stream of positive and uplifting stories and misrepresented by the media? The manual, which was obtained by Fox News, also instructs troops to 'support the leadership of non-white people. This ranges from preferential treatment in public places like parks and supermarkets to the treatment they receive from authorities.

At the other end of the spectrum, anti-racist white Australians working with Indigenous people may experience their privilege as painful "stigma".

One report noted that white students often react to in-class discussions about white privilege with a continuum of behaviors ranging from outright hostility to a "wall of silence". Williams and Rivers (1972b) showed that test instructions in Standard English disadvantaged the black child and that if the language of the test is put in familiar labels without training or coaching, the child's performances on the tests increase significantly. From another perspective, white privilege is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses on advantages that white people accrue from their position in society as well as the disadvantages that non-white people experience.Although the definition of "white privilege" has been somewhat fluid, it is generally agreed to refer to the implicit or systemic advantages that people who are deemed white have relative to people who are not deemed white. McIntosh's essay is still routinely cited as a key influence by later generations of academics and journalists. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology had socially liberal people read about white privilege, and then read about a poor person who was either black or white.