What it actually demonstrates is the increasing incapacity of people to conceive of privilege in other than racial terms. These books are about court or high bourgeois sectors of class-stratified, mono-ethnic societies where "whiteness" is an obvious anachronism. https://twitter.com/AliceFromQueens/status/1281232965981409281 …
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Imperial Russia and Imperial Britain were not mono-ethnic societies either -- not by a long shot.
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Right, it's the ret-conning of a USA usage of "white" (& in fact a very recent version of that word dating from after World War II) to the past. It's why the phrase "dead white men" didn't ever make much sense. But I also think in this particular passage it was meant ironically
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