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Through white-privilege sunglasses

Hey, it’s what college students and their professors do these days: scoping out white privilege. Especially the ones who got poor grades in science and math.

“It’s important to remember that ‘white’ doesn’t mean ‘white’ any more than The Patriarchy refers to biological males, of which there is no such thing. Whiteness, like Maleness is modified by ideology, party affiliation and above all their place in the Narrative.  Spotting  social oppressors requires knowledge acquired in courses like Gender or Racial studies the same way people needed special sunglasses to see the aliens among us in the movie They Live….

“…one of the dangers to reality being all in the mind is you can think you’ve been a good guy all your life and suddenly realize you’re Darth Vader. Like Franz Kafka’s narrator in Metamorphosis, you may wake up one day to find yourself transformed into a gigantic cockroach. It’s a shocking realization but one you should be open to.”

Because if you’re not willing to play the culprit, they don’t get to play the victim and all those gender, race and class professors would be out of work and that would be one more example of white privilege. See how it works?

Via Richard Fernandez.