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the problem with privilege

The problem with privilege is not that it is an undue luxury, then. It is that all do not share in it equally. A failure to recognize that causes a doomed political strategy; it results in critiquing those who have privilege rather than granting it to those who do not. That means dragging entitled …

—p.35 The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture The Pathologies of Privilege (27) by Zach Wehrwein
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critiques of white privilege

Critiques of white privilege can therefore slip into the very callousness that we are attempting to critique in the first place. If white peo- ple are perceived to experience “undeserved” advantage, then creating a world of just deserts will involve removing those advantages. But if those “advantag…

—p.34 The Pathologies of Privilege (27) by Zach Wehrwein
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liberal "privilege" vs socialist "right"

Consider a recent article from “EverydayFeminism.com,” a fairly typical exemplar of progressive discourse. The author describes six indicators that one has “class privilege.” These include: 1. Waking up well-rested. 2. Paying for a convenience (such as deciding to buy a coffee so as not to have to …

—p.31 The Pathologies of Privilege (27) by Zach Wehrwein
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the world is still full of actual, literal slaves

But slavery does not just exist as the continuing reverberation of a tragic past, and by focusing on rooting out the symbolic and material consequences of historical slavery, we risk missing something quite important: the world is still full of actual, literal slaves. From the penitentiaries of Lou…

—p.25 Slavery Is Everywhere (15) by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni
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wage slavery

Focusing on slavery as a set of theoretical property rights constructions is therefore somewhat bizarre. It considers the types of legal rights the owner holds or exercises, rather than the person in question’s actual experiences. Thus the same two experiences could be slavery or not, depending on …

—p.18 Slavery Is Everywhere (15) by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni