White fragility exposes how white people are established as perfectly privileged and socialized to think they are superior

Historically, white people have been taught that they are superior to other races. While these ideas have been rejected in recent decades, deep-seated racism and subconscious biases are still present in white people. Society still legitimizes the white experience by claiming white people as heroes and anyone else as villains, which reinforces white superiority. For example, the history curriculum in the United States only features white perspectives, creating one-sided narratives and white biases. White supremacy has been a part of the human social experience for hundreds of years. Importantly, the idea of race is a socially constructed topic; it is not real biological fact. Humans created ideas of race in order to separate each other and hold on to power.^[1] White supremacy was further solidified through race relations. In places across the world, standards of beauty are seen to the "white ideal."^[2] These standards mainly come from white colonizers, who imposed their ideas and standards onto native populations. For example, modern East Asian countries use skin lightening products in an attempt to recreate imposed white beauty standards of pale skin being favorable. These standards devalued local, indigenous cultures and created community biases that favored white standards. White supremacy has been established over centuries of degradation and colonization. But White supremacy is not reality. White fragility exposes white supremacy as an internal, unconscious bias white people hold.