The first episode of the series dealt with the question of white feminism in an interview with author Rafia Zakaria.

Ethnic minorities account for more than 10% of the population of the EU, however less than 5% of the lawmakers elected to the European Parliament are people of color, a proportion further reduced to 4% after Brexit.

[6] The hashtag BrusselsSoWhite has been invoked to denounce manifestations of racism towards people of colour working in European affairs in Brussels.

[9] Shada Islam argued that because of the lack of diversity as denounced by #BrusselsSoWhite, whiteness could be perceived as being central to the European identity.

[12] Commentators expressed regrets about the absence of response or action from Brussels-based think-tanks[12] and environmental NGOs[13] in reaction to the stated objective of the European Commission to combat racism.