"Checking Your Privilege: A How-To for Hard Things"
summary
Provides three concrete experiments to make privilege actionable: active listening by following and quietly learning from people unlike you (uses Twitter as the primary tool), change your speech by swapping exclusionary defaults and tolerating discomfort, and speak up for others with public or private correction. Grounds the need in recently released diversity metrics (Google) and decades of research and lived testimony, and frames the goal as incremental, testable behavior changes rather than abstract exhortation.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to privilege
- 1:29Personal story of privilege
- 3:17Systemic problems in tech
- 5:04Experiment 1: Active listening
- 6:48Experiment 2: Change your speech
- 8:13Experiment 3: Speak up for others
- 9:58Why we don’t act
- 12:07Call to action
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