As I understand it, a problem the privilege model is designed to address is people who ignorant about important difficulties, and are unwilling to listen. “Privilege” raises the temperature enough to get some people to bend. Of course, psycho-chemistry being what it is, it gets other people to become more rigid, to melt down, or to explode.
As I understand it, a problem the privilege model is designed to address is people who ignorant about important difficulties, and are unwilling to listen. “Privilege” raises the temperature enough to get some people to bend. Of course, psycho-chemistry being what it is, it gets other people to become more rigid, to melt down, or to explode.
In a way that has no reason to correlate with the truth of the issue under discussion.
None of the typical reactions to “privilege” are reliably related to the truth of the matter.
That’s another problem with overuse of the “priviledge” concept: the more people throw it around, the less punch it packs.