Apparently they like being mocked.
Via Daily Caller:
Obscure leftwing professors who are devoted to the concept of “white privilege” are completely elated that the rest of America is noticing and condemning their crackpot, racist notions.
Various professors who endorse the “white privilege” project are taking advantage of their 15 minutes of mainstream infamy to proselytize, according to Inside Higher Ed, which ventured into remote academic backwaters to interview spellbound supporters of the bizarre theory.
The “white privilege” promoters swear they aren’t racist loons and hope to find new converts for their belief that all white people carry and utilize “an invisible package of unearned assets,” as inconsequential feminist Peggy McIntosh put it in a 1987 essay.
“Even an angry discussion opens the door,” Paul R. Croll, an assistant professor at Augustana College, told Inside Higher Ed. “Bill O’Reilly saying ‘I don’t have white privilege’ is still Bill O’Reilly saying ‘white privilege.’”
Croll opined that “white privilege” is a “deep sociological idea” and added that it’s the latest fad in introductory sociology courses around the country.