Society perpetuates white privilege because society's culture and social norms are defined by white privilege. When McIntosh provides the reader with her personal anecdote, she mentions that her school did not provide her “training in seeing [herself] as an oppressor” instead she was taught that her life was “neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal.” Like McIntosh’s school, most schools enforce white privilege and stigmatizes those who deviate from the norm. As a result, generation of children are conditioned to internalize whiteness as the standard of living. Because some schools normalizes whiteness, it prevents students to acknowledge forms of white privilege. Thus, people are ambivalent towards the issue of social injustice because