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But good luck getting such benefit of the doubt if you’re a WOC ship captain-one small slip-up and people will never let you sail around teaching kids about breakfast cereal ever again. See, when a straight white man makes a mistake, society tends to dismiss it as a fluke and just continues acting like he’s a genius. And not only did he emerge unscathed, but it also wasn’t long before he was once again being trusted with major projects like Cozmic Crunch, proving that he, like so many other straight white men, was above reproach. Yet the Cap’n never faced any consequences for the blunder because his status as a powerful white male shielded him from accountability. It was a disastrous and costly error-and one that a woman or person of color would’ve never made, as women and people of color would’ve taken every precaution to ensure the correct ratio of Crunch Berries to yellow squares, knowing that even the most minor misstep could be attributed to incompetence or an inability to handle the stress of the job. In case you need a refresher, back in 1997, Cap’n Crunch mistakenly released a cereal that was 100% Crunch Berries with none of the yellow square pieces that consumers had come to expect. We’ve gone long enough as a society letting privileged people off the hook for their bullshit, and it’s time to get real: Cap’n Crunch was only forgiven for the “Oops! All Berries” debacle because he’s a straight white man.