What it all has to do with us

The article "What it all has to do with us" is about privilege and how people may not respond the way they really feel about something. In which case is known as the path of least resistance.

2. An example of this was used in the article to show this was a group of people get in an elevator and eventually turn around to face the doors. If you were to walk into the elevator and stay facing the back wall, you would not be following the path of least resistance. However if you were to turn around and face the doors you would be following the path of least resistance, because no one would say anything to you, because you are doing the same thing as everyone else. But if you go against the norms then you might get a strange look or someone will say something to you. Also if you hear a sexist joke and feel uncompelled to object in someway. But the path of least resistance is to go along and smile or laugh or not say anything. So people don't know that you did not like what you just heard. Making you feel less uncomfortable then you would had you said something to your friend about the joke being sexist.

3. If someone doesn't like what is going on, then why don't they speak up and say that, that joke wasn't funny. Chapter six says people could take another path, however they stick to the path of least resistance because they are afraid of what will happen if they do not chose the path of least resistance (p.81)

4. I feel this is true. If we do not want to explain ourselves we will go along with what people say and take the path of least resistance. If I do not like a joke that was being told, instead of saying I find that to be offense, I would just smile and do a little fake laugh, so my coworkers do not know that I really did not like what they just said and so I would not have to explain which part of the joke I felt was offense. This helps the person who's offended feel less uncomfortable and keeps the person telling the joke from feeling like a jerk.