Around 2004 I observed Harvard students excitedly talking about privilege. They just went on and on about it, and it was all such bullshit.
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Of course even though what they were saying was absolute garbage, they made it sound so intellectual. See also postmodernist academia.
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These ideas have moved from academia into the mainstream, and in the process they've been dumbed down. It's no longer the
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exclusive intellectuals who talk about this. I wonder if the exclusive intellectuals will move on to
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something else soon in order to avoid association with the dumb masses?
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See http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/ … for similar thoughts on coolness and elite signalling
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