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But there is a danger that, by talking about this inequality as an all-consuming phenomenon, we will end up creating a flattened and unfair image that portrays all whites in all situations and all contexts as benefiting from unearned advantages.
It is absolutely true that the SAT is the reason this scandal occurred.
I left identity politics activism — and learned hard lessons about groupthink, moral certainty, and what happens when ideology becomes your whole identity.
The sad reality is that Martin had no choice but to burble bromides if she wished to remain a member of her progressive intellectual clique.
One would hope that senators could have worked together to examine the available evidence in a manner that showed respect for all parties involved.
Privilege is framed as a condition that, once acquired, can never be cured.
Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?
It’s true that being very smart and scoring very well on the SAT is the only way most people can have a chance of getting into an Ivy League school
The largest part of the privilege they passed on to me was the privilege of good habits, good manners, a good work ethic, and a good general philosophy of life.
Training on ‘unconscious bias’ is the punishment that hiring committees face for not hiring enough female and (non-Asian) minority professors.
For only then can reason ensure that the moral and social bonds of universal human brotherhood are sustained.
This Orientalism has clouded how many on the Western Left understand and approach minority cultures within their own societies.
As explicit discrimination decreased, social scientists began proposing alternatives to explain remaining gaps.
If we hope to maintain our privileges – and work towards securing them for others – we must be aware of the bad ideas that threaten them.
It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.