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Oh, yeah – and Berg’s 20th Law of Social Justice Warmongering<\/a> is not called “Berg’s 20th Impromptu Notion” for a reason:<\/p>\n\n\n\n All incidents of \u201chate speech\u201d not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I say this not to deny that hate speech happens, by the way – but to stop diluting the term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But we saw it again: student at a posh college makes a claim against a couple blue-collar white guys. Blue collar members of the majority – a janitor, a cafeteria worker and a campus cop – get disciplined, and “cancelled”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then an outside investigation determined that, basically, it never happened.\u00a0The campus police officer, the janitor and a cafeteria worker had been\u00a0falsely tarred as racists<\/a>, but they were not the beneficiaries of apologies, \u201ccompassion for everyone involved\u201d or anything else.\u00a0<\/p> \u201cCheck your privilege\u201d is a common term around higher education, but the notion that white janitors, cafeteria workers and campus police are \u201cprivileged\u201d in that environment is not simply absurd, but monstrous. As Smith janitor Mark Patenaude told the Times, \u201cWe used to joke, don\u2019t let a rich student report you, because if you do, you\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Privilege is the ability to get an employee of many years punished simply by making a complaint, even a false one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n As we’ve noted in the past, the woman who coined the term “white privilege” did it to deflect away from her absolutely colossal class privilege<\/a>. And I’m not saying, flat-out, that it’s a psyop to cover a fairly deliberate class war…<\/p>\n\n\n\n