…studies have found that educating people about “white privilege” does very little to change anyone’s attitudes or behaviors toward African Americans or other minorities. Instead, the training primarily leads white elites to hold poorer whites in even lower esteem–it convinces them that struggling whites deserve their suffering and are unworthy of help (apparently for failing to make good use of their “privilege”). The plurality of poor folks in America, who just so happen to be white, are conveniently recast as “privileged’ people who are owed nothing by the rest of society (who, indeed, despite their poverty, may still have more than they “deserve”). This, of course, is a very convenient position for elites to hold: no need to reallocate their money downward to “those people.” Practically speaking, they’ll just squander any advantages they’re provided. And they’re morally unworthy of assistance as well.
Musa Al Gharbi, We Have Never Been Woke, 270.