I'm starting to think it's intellectual malpractice to write/talk about privilege, class, oppression, etc. without revealing at least 2 generations of family and educational history. There is a suspicious pattern of 2nd/3rd generation privilege joining the privilege commentariat.
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I won't go so far as to say I'm not interested at all in the latter, or uncritically accepting of what the former have to say. Experience doesn't necessarily translate to insight, and lack of experience doesn't preclude insight. But those are my priors...at least on those topics.
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For the record, though I rarely write/talk about these topics... basic middle-class Brahmin stock going back a couple of generations in India mouthing off here. Parents/aunts/uncles all college educated. Grandparents generation mostly not, but earned their way to home-ownership.
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My great grandfather was an immigrant and a tailor in the Jewish ghetto, my grandparents served in WWII, went to college on the GI bill, bought suburban houses, and raised their kids as mainstream Americans. This is the story for several key "white" ethic groups in the US.
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This is the Irish, Italian, and Jewish story of the US East Coast. And I think a lot of ppl who work in media and propagate narratives about privilege have similar backgrounds. We're quick to forget.
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