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”).

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi