td11 wrote:guys, guys... i know it reads terribly, but the guy makes some valid poi

Phoebe Maltz Bovy wrote:While privilege is nothing new, the term “privilege” is everywhere in post-recession America, not just on college campuses. The ideas of Peggy “Invisible Knapsack” McIntosh and Pierre “Cultural Capital” Bourdieu have trickled into the culture. Whatever “privilege” consists of in a given conversation—wealth and whiteness? Familiarity with kale?—no one wants to own theirs. And for good reason: “Privilege” isn't merely unearned advantage—it implies entitlement. To say that someone “comes across as privileged” is to call that person clueless and insensitive. It may not even be logically possible to admit to privilege, if we’re defining “privilege” as advantage about which one is unaware...

Fortgang, then, was right that “privilege” is a problem, but wrong about why. (He was also wrong about it being an argument specific to the left—see Charles Murray and the “bubble” quiz, or Ross Douthat's recent column about college debauchery.) Yes, Fortgang comes across as oblivious, as college freshman used to do more discreetly, before student op-eds went viral. And yes, privilege theory—that is, the term as applied to society, not individuals—is quite useful. All things equal, the rich, white, male, and so forth have it easier than others, and do well to remember this. But has “check your privilege” educated Fortgang, or anyone else?

pacino wrote:votin' Tom Wolf and Brad Koplinski over here

i dont think Wolf is any great liberal lion, but he's better than the other options and he's strong

dajafi wrote:I know nothing about the PA gubernatorial. But fwiw, one of our TGP contributors, an absolute rock ribbed straight line Republican, knows Wolf really well, says he's almost too good to be true and is enthusiastically supporting him.