Video of College Student Goes Viral After Being ‘Deprogrammed’ About White Privilege

Turning Point USA reporter Savanah Hernandez said she took an opportunity to “deprogram” a college student at the University of Texas, Austin, who tried to explain why having “White privilege” meant he had more opportunities than her.

“I grew up as a White man, and yet you’re the exact opposite, you know? And so it’s like my experiences are going to be different from yours,” the student said.

“How come?” Hernandez asked.

” I think, you know, there is a thing of, like, White privilege,” he said before Hernandez jumped in, asking what privileges he has that she doesn’t.

“Oh, see, that’s the question I keep asking myself, because, like, in this day and age, like all the laws I say, all the laws, you know, it’s hard to speak on something I’m not fully knowledgeable of. So, like, I’m sorry if I, like, make a mistake in saying this, but it’s like…ummm….” Hernandez questioned if he thought it was a problem in society when White people think that they have more privileges than Brown or Black people.

“Yeah, and I think that’s sort of the agenda that’s pushed off because partially it’s like not that I think I’m more privileged than anyone else because I had to work to get where I was,” he responded.

“Well, why do you have that mentality immediately where you, you know, kind of apologize to me? Like, let’s talk about privilege. Let’s talk about I’m a White man in America, so we could have grown up differently. Why is that your first initial reaction to me as a Brown woman?” she asked.

“Wow, you’re getting me good. See, these are the kind of conversations that I love having, and I think it comes from a place of like. I wouldn’t say caution, but like in this day and age, people are so quick to judge and react and cancel,”  he explained. “And so I guess it’s at that like caution to go into an interview like this. I’m like, I don’t know where we’re at, but now I know where we’re at and I can like, go for real.”

Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson called the whole exchange “heart-breaking.” “What we have done to young people in the name of virtue is unforgivable,” he wrote on Twitter.