Johnson Ch.6

I believe that Johnson's thesis is his whole second paragraph really. He tells his readers in that paragrapg that privilege is hard for some people to talk about and get angry when it comes up in conversations. "the risk isn't nearly as big as it seems, because, like the proverbial human fear of the strange and unfamiliar, the problem begins with how people think about things an dwho they are in relation to them." That sums up Johnson's argument.

Johnson brings up a good point that are society blames someone for everything. Somebody is always at fault for the wrongs that have happened. For example, he uses sexism and how women blame men for it. But then brings to point that some men agree and others don't. So sexism will never be solved because the ones that think it doesn't apply to them won't help to fix the problem, because it really applies to everyone and not just men. Johnson also explain thath there is two ways to learn things through socialization, one is through paticipating in social life and the other is the individual participating. The first has to do more with the people that are around you and you learning their thought and the other is clearly your views on events. He also talks about resistance and how there is an easy way out of events; which has low resistance or the harder resistance way that society might look down upon.

Do you see yourself doing things with low or high resistance more?
Have you ever wished you would have done something of low resistance instead of the normal?

This was a very interesting article. I enjoyed reading most but didn't agree with some of his views. I believe he is biased in some cases and i don't like that and lioke zinn and other aurthors more.