{"id":1966,"date":"2026-09-30T22:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:52:17","slug":"majority-privilege-makiko-deguchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1966","title":{"rendered":"Majority privilege (Makiko Deguchi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first step toward eliminating structural discrimination is for people in the majority to be aware of their invisible privileges. Unless we realize how automatically advantaged we are within the current social structure, and how these advantages allow us not to face discrimination and microaggressions on a daily basis, we tend to see ourselves as a product of our own effort.<br \/>\nThis leads people to blame marginalized people for their own victimization. We fall into the false sense of security that discrimination is something that other \u201cbad\u201d people do, and that the issue is irrelevant to them because they consciously do not discriminate against others. However, failing to take action when a discriminatory structure is in place is the same as helping to perpetuate discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first step toward eliminating structural discrimination is for people in the majority to be aware of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}