I feel like too much gets blamed on privilege discourse. Most of the evils attributed to it seem like they've been around for a long while..
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Replying to @nberlat
anyway, read the whole thing if you're interested, as they say:https://qz.com/901278/phoebe-maltz-bovy-and-the-perils-of-privilege-liberals-are-so-busy-confessing-and-denouncing-privilege-theyve-forgotten-to-fix-it/ …
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Replying to @aurabogado
Sacco tweeted something racist. That's why people complained about it. Why is it suddenly their duty to raise AIDS awareness?
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Replying to @aurabogado
She did...but she's not a notable figure, and it's hard to see what good the resulting firestorm did (at leas to me.)
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well, the argument in favor of privilege call outs is that they advance the cause of social justice, right?
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I guess I just wonder if denouncing the person over and over in theway it played out ended up advancing any particular good.
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And that's my problem with the framing: Why you choose to make the particular good here to mean raising AIDS awareness? @nberlat
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