The Problem With “Privilege” Talk
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Banging on about people’s “privilege” is logically suspect and pragmatically dense

Jacobin socialists love Walmart and hate anything that cuts through the idealist bullshit of the middle class.

A left that only knows how to shame, call out, privilege-check, and diagnose the allegedly unsavory motivations of people who disagree with us will lose a lot of persuadable people whose material interests should put them on our side.

this bloodless dork puts scare quotes around "allegedly unsavory motivations" (read Settlers) and yet turns on a dime to LARP as a woke redpilled Marxist who has analyzed peoples material interests and somehow knows they're comrades.

When you've succumbed to pure ideology, it makes you so bad at your job that even a logic nerd is forced to put an obvious contradiction in the same sentence!

  • truth [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    So this is part of what’s wrong with a lot of the discourse surrounding “privilege” on the left. Just because some form of epistemic privilege coincides with a person holding to a particular belief doesn’t ipso facto suggest anything about that belief’s reasonableness.

    Okay, maybe this is technically true, but that isn't to say that a person who is subconsciously forming opinions that would center their material interests, and those material interests being based on the oppression of others, would potentially influence then to a position that is unfeasible for any sort of democratic decision.

    He's saying that blind spots don't matter essentially. What a ridiculous argument from someone telling you how to fly a plane.

    • sourcesaregoodfolks [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      He’s saying that blind spots don’t matter essentially.

      Yeah, like when a k-hive person calls you a white Bernie bro and you need to check your privilege they always have a valid reason for saying so and it isn’t just to shutdown debate.

      Maybe before we assume the worst of this guy we can, I dunno. Give him the most basic of good faith assumptions?