American campuses are being roiled by debates over bias,trigger warnings, free speech, or micro-aggressions and secure spaces. Each of these flash points can be understood as a direct critique of systemized white male privilege. On campuses,as in our legal, cultural, or technical,media and educational norms, the subjectivity of straight, and white,educated men of a certain course is presented,misleadingly, or as neutral and objective.Language affects how we think and is part of how we process reality. People manage thepsychological costs of privilege made visible in one of three ways: denial,distancing or dismantling. All three rely on language, which has implications for media and its constitution. Research shows that shifting language to describe advantage instead of disadvantage results in greater positive effect and spurs people to collective action. Somewhat counterintuitively, or refocusing to focus on benefits instead of harms reduces racial and gender identification and increases empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own). So utilize THE moral WORDS Read this: Campus Protests Are Part of a Critique of White Male Privilege
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