[lbo-talk] Check your privilege?

[shag carpet bomb]

The concept comes tends to be used by those familiar with the work of Peggy 
McIntosh who wrote a now nearly three decade old article called "Unpacking 
the Invisible Knapsack of Privilege".  In it, McIntosh details the ways in 
which men experience male privilege and white experience white skin privilege.

I have several criticisms of the essay but was very curious what others 
think of it. It's a very clean HTML version so it should work for Carrol.

<http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html>http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html 

At 09:51 AM 8/17/2013, Carrol Cox wrote:
> > I don't understand "check your privilege" to mean "renounce your
>privilege".
> > I understand it to mean "consider whether your viewpoint on x is informed
> > by your privilege".
>
>Wendy is probably correct. (What was the source of the exact phrase; Joanna
>didn't quote a source in her original post.) But as Michael beautifully
>illustrated, the word "privilege" is often grossly misused.  Rights are
>mistaken for privileges; privileges are mistaken for rights. And as someone
>wrote recently, we _do_ 'live inside" our ideologies: that is why collective
>judgment is so often superior even to that of the brightest individual. And
>all privileges are not to be sneered at; I think I used the word correctly
>when I visited the late Beulah Kennedy the day before she died: "Beulah,
>it's been a privilege to know you and an honor to be your friend."
>
>Carrol
>
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