" White exceptionalism is particularly rampant in progressive, liberal, spiritual white people because there is a belief that being these things makes you exempt or above it all. You are not. And the belief that you are makes you dangerous to BIPOC because you cannot see your own complicity and you will not listen when it is being reflected back to you. "

― Layla F. Saad , Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor