Ive been thinking about this whos privileged? question some more. We have to make a distinction between privilege and advantages. These overlap in some places but arent identical sets. Advantages would include tangible things like having parents who can afford to pay for your college outright as well as intangibles like being raised in a home where people speak standard Middle Class white English. For privilege, we can come back to the different laws root -- white privilege means, for example, that young white men arent stopped by the police for no reason while young black men are stopped frequently. White drivers pay less for car insurance in some states than black drivers. And so on. Ive seen discussions of privilege degenerate into arguments many times because we dont make this distinction between advantage and privilege.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:27:17 +0000