Orthodox Privilege: http://paulgraham.com/orth.html
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I think it's very telling that you decided to frame this as a form of "privilege," rather than as a "fallacy": people whose ideas reliably fall within the bounds of the mainstream incorrectly assume the benign public response to their ideas must mirror everyone's experience.
Privilege is more specific. It's a specific type of blindness afflicting those who've led a sheltered existence.
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I would argue the opposite. Fallacy is confined to a logical failure. Privilege is more broad, because privilege not only can make you blind, it also actually gives you genuine benefits - if the only thing that a privilege does is make you blind, you wouldn't call it a privilege.
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Accusing someone of privilege paves the way for accusing a moral failure. If you refuse to see your privilege even after it has been explained to you, the nature of that failing is quite different than failing to correct an error in your thinking.
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Who exactly is sheltered here?
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@paulg means sheltered by the knowledge that anything you say has never caused controversy.
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Maybe the definition of privilege has moved, but I cannot recognise or corroborate this definition. What you're describing sounds like a bias — an empathy gap experienced by people within an Opinion Corridor towards people outside of it.
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