Privilege Goes Viral


	Privilege Goes Viral

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2-15-2008 2:35 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ddb954ba-830c-474d-80d0-a031151bc550/8067F298-7BFC-4089-AFE0-D03DBF2943B0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/" href="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/" style="font-size: 11px;">educationandclass.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link to Privilege Goes Viral" rel="bookmark" href="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/">Privilege Goes Viral</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/"><P>And I fascinated by  the almost universal denial of privilege among all of these people sitting at their computers with the leisure time to participate in such exercises.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/"><P>But I’m highly intrigued by the seemingly contradictory responses in many of these posts.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/"><P>On the other hand, many of these writers simply assume — and often viciously assert — that they and their families are “better” than people who did not grow up with the sorts of things on the list,  because any parents who worked hard and cared about their kids would obviously provide the same things that they, themselves, enjoyed as children.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://educationandclass.com/2008/01/04/privilege-goes-viral/"> How is it that so many people can simultaneously disdain the poor and working class while also pretending to live in solidarity with  “real” people who had to work for everything that they have?  To argue that while they simultaneously enjoyed a great deal of material privilege growing up, they are not “privileged” <I>people</I> because their parents worked hard for what they had?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8067F298-7BFC-4089-AFE0-D03DBF2943B0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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