He is being obtuse in this thread, but the connotations of the word “privilege” ARE a big unforced error that present a barrier to White people accepting the concept. Too much of our social justice language of art has this problem and I don’t know what to do about it.https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1041331007448854530 …
Connotations aside, privilege /denotes/ something important. Or did, before, you know...
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It is a necessary concept. And I was exactly the right person for the word “privilege” in “Unpacking The White Knapsack” to communicate it to me. But the word lands wrong with too many people.
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Ted Kennedy straight-up killed Mary Jo Kopechne, and got away with it because of his last name. Private. Law. Was this concept worth killing to get a weaker one that many-to-most reject anyway?
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Yeah, that’s another problem with “privilege” as a SJ term of art. It kind of steps on all the old usages of the word. Very hard to use the construction “X privileges Y over Z” any more, too.
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