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<\/a><\/p>\nOh, sure – “white privilege”. \u00a0Yep, that too.<\/p>\n
In seeing the iconic photo of Professor \u00a0Click calling in “muscle” to eject a student “journalist” from public space, as he tried to cover a protest about “privilege”, I’m reminded of an episode I had recently with a local “Black Lives Matter” sympathizer\/activist.<\/p>\n
We were on a neighborhood Facebook page, discussing a BLM rally that’d just happened in my neighborhood.<\/p>\n
I asked the woman a simple question; with the stipulation that “white privilege” exists, I asked her “what should we do about it?”<\/p>\n
Her answer was the sort of condescension that comes from deep insecurity; “you wouldn’t understand, because of your privilege”.<\/p>\n
I bit my tongue and refrained from responding “Ma’am? \u00a0You’re a professional in one of the soft sciences; you have an advanced degree, a practice, an upper-middle-class income by Twin Cities standards (which means you’re phenomenally wealthy by world standards), and an entree into upper-middle-class society. \u00a0I’m a freelance IT user experience consultant. \u00a0Who’s got the “privilege”, here?<\/p>\n
It’s like when Nekima Levy-Pounds blows up an interview by pulling the “white privilege” lever; she’s a woman with a PhD in a very soft humanities area, and a tenured, all but unemployment proof job and an upper-middle-class salary and lifestyle, lecturing white roofing and siding contractors, delivery drivers and overnight Target shelf-stockers about their “privilege”.<\/p>\n
There is all sorts of “privilege” out there; I was privileged to grow up in a family with married parents that stayed together until I was an adult; I’m privileged that my ancestors came to this country of their own free will, from a society with a history of stabbing and burning anyone who’d tried to enslave\u00a0them,\u00a0<\/em>thus avoiding all the social pathologies that befall people with long histories of brutal persecution (white southern Scots-Irish, Armenians, and yes, even Jews).<\/p>\n