tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post8419020288246469142..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Rights and privilegesDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-53357234666102375742013-07-29T09:45:11.625-04:002013-07-29T09:45:11.625-04:00Professor
Many thanks for this post and citation.
...Professor<br />Many thanks for this post and citation.<br />I took a look at the article you had cited. I found it to be quite perceptive. She seems to treat the concept of white privilege pejoratively as well, while describing how things have been rather well, wherein the term seems to describe things better than some others. <br /><br />It reminds me of the analysis in "The Credential Society" at some points.<br /><br />going way back, the English, and the colonists, it seems, had used rights and privileges, quite often, together, though the American rebels then dropped class and aristocratic privilege language from the new united federation, except perhaps in talk of rights and privileges of citizens of These United States. <br /><br />(The English of course had the separate estates, etc., etc.)<br /><br />all the best, Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-7088209569915508472013-07-29T03:14:43.787-04:002013-07-29T03:14:43.787-04:00“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”-G...“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”-Gore Vidal <br /><br />Yes it's a pernicious notion, that "society is a "zero-sum game": i.e., that nobody can become better off unless and until somebody else is made worse off." But evidence abounds that our plutocracy believes this, and in class war. Enriching themselves and at the same time increasing the misery of the lower classes is their strategy.Zosimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263402425021727149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-49149458418458794642013-07-28T03:13:47.863-04:002013-07-28T03:13:47.863-04:00This pernicious notion of "White Privilege&qu...This pernicious notion of "White Privilege" is based on the assumption that the economy and, by extension, the society is a "zero-sum game": i.e., that nobody can become better off unless and until somebody else is made worse off. Such a notion, were it to take hold can only bring about the breakdown of our civil society without making anybody better off and a lot of people very much worse off. The consequences are, potentially, class war, race war, and civil war.Robert Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04481244725828248799noreply@blogger.com