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373 "Notes on White Privilege" w/ Adam Davidson and Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Fifth Column

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I'm a Big Believer in Zero Privileges in Italics

The presumption that race, gender, sexuality generally obviate the infinity of relative disadvantages and advantages in any individual's life is beyond ridiculous. We need to generalize about things. It's how we navigate a complex world. But at the same time, once those analogies, hence those generalizations, become essential and totalizing, there are all kinds of perverse things that can happen there.

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