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In reply to the discussion: If you are the member of a privileged group AND call yourself progressive [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)the "I" = you.
"In other words...
Other people are privileged (however subjectively that may be defined) and I am not, so my opinions should be evaluated differently than others. I should be given special consideration because of my self-declared status -- which I'm going to deny to everyone else."
It's ridiculous to attack the poster on grammar and demand an 'identified subject'; it exposes your own weakness in that area, if indeed you were serious.
and it's stupid anyway to attack people on their grammar in a political argument. it's irrelevant, even if his grammar had been poor -- which it wasn't. but poor grammar doesn't have anything to do with a political argument, and it's kind of a class-based attack besides. ("you're ignorant and uneducated, so your opinions don't matter"
I don't think anything in particular about what the poster was saying, but i think 'privilege' is a discourse which is diversionary, unproductive, and basically a dead end for any real social justice.
as witness this stupid thread.