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How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator

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The Politics of Privilege

I'm not one of these conservatives who doesn't think privilege exists I think privilege does exist. Whatever La Bouvier experience at the Guggenheim, I think any reasonable person would see her as racism existed but she's still a very privileged individual to be paid to do creative work like that. And here they are entering into this partnership with a dictatorship. Now we've been overloading listeners with analogies. Here's one more where the Catholic Church used to charge people for indulgences and they'd give money to the Church and in return they'd be absolved for their sins. Was the treatment of Mespektor kind of along those lines? It's all sort of symbolic

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