Everyone who has ever said "It’s the status quo that’s radical" was a radical. Wanting a drastic departure from the status quo is the dictionary definition of "radical." If you need to try to change the meaning of words, you are probably losing.https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1199359400194007040 …
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Like redefining "racism" as something other than racial discrimination & prejudice, this is a textbook example of how progressive efforts to remake the language to appeal to woke-academic sentiment works against the ends they claim to desire in persuading ordinary people.
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If you actually want to persuade Americans that a segment of the population faces a chronic injustice, argue that. It won't always work, but historically, it has many times. Telling working-class voters they're privileged is how you talk if you don't care if they believe you.
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Somebody is trying to redefine privilege here, but it's not Mr. Waldman. The definition is absolutely not being handed something. It's "a special right, advantage, OR IMMUNITY granted or available only to a particular person or group." But you already know that.
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The common understanding of the term is belonging to a privileged class. Look, you can try to beat people over the head with something that's unfamiliar & unpersuasive in order to feel superior to them, or you can try to speak the common language.
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