Privilege
By Mitch Berg
Earlier this week, while listening to Jack and Andrew on the lesser talk station, I caught them running through this piece about 38 examples of liberal privelege on college campuses.
The piece is very much worth a read.
Of course, if you live in a place like the Twin Cities, you realize there’d be room for a similar piece for adults in places where Jon Stewart is considered news and where chanting “settled science!” is considered an argument-ender.
I’m going to take quick shot at it, off the top of my head: if you’re an adult in a “progressive” city…:
- You’ve never had to learn to confront dissent as anything other than either a mortal threat to your worldview, or a joke to be scuttled away from, using ad homina if necessary.
- You’ve never had to learn to debate at a level beyond strawmen, red herrings, and chuckling “facts have a liberal bias” as if the saying were handed down by the ancients, rather than by a mediocre comic who made a living satirizing conservatives.
- After 12 years of indoctrination in the public schools, and often as not 4-8 years at an institution where dissent is treated as a pathology, you are utterly secure in your faith that your club is the sole source of truth.
35 more to go!
July 17th, 2015 at 10:36 am
Along these lines, it’s scary how isolated many can become–my brother, a Hahvid grad, once refused to even consider a possibility and examine whether his conclusions would change. That kind of thing used to be grounds for refusing a man entrance to any college, but now you can graduate with a built-in resistance to examining your own assumptions. Yikes.