Privilege
The political term for advantage, employed most frequently by those who enjoy public self-flagellation and the myopic judgment of others.
Often used to describe every advantage that anyone has when, if it is to have any coherence at all, should be used to describe unearned advantages. Owning a car, for example, may be an advantage, but it is not a privilege if someone worked for the money to buy it instead of spending their income on extraneous and superfluous goods. It was earned. This line of inquiry is deliberately avoided because it would eliminate the vast majority of privileges that activists profess are responsible for disparate outcomes. It is in this way that discussions about privilege tend to bastardize ideas such as free will and personal agency, concepts that most activists are incapable of discussing with any depth in most circumstances. They are inconvenient to their cause.
Traditionally, having advantages was considered good fortune, however now it has become a way to introduce feelings of guilt into the hearts and minds of ordinary people. This gives rise to an endless sea of guilt that we are all encouraged to recognize at every moment when interacting with others. If we experience guilt when examining the privileges we enjoy, then we are far less likely to leverage them for our benefit.
This appears to be the intention of the privilege crusade: you have something that others do not, so you should feel bad and move to the back of the line. It is an unconventional yet surprisingly effective tool for wealth redistribution, utilizing sophistry and emotional weaponry to shame empathetic citizens into submission.
Whether our privilege is earned or unearned, we are told it must be made available to the grasping hands of others, those who are deemed worthier than us. These hands are, of course, determined at the discretion of an incoherent intersectional mind that rests upon the laurels of its own idealism to justify its theft. It is not quite wealth redistribution; it is opportunity redistribution.
While it was once considered wise and virtuous to play the hand we have been dealt, it appears that now we have self-elected dealers. These dealers reserve the right to collect any number of cards from whichever hands they choose, and redistribute them however they see fit. Their defense will be that the deck was stacked prior to dealing, and now they are correcting it.
Essentially, they are just stacking it in another way, in the manner that they choose, to produce a specific outcome that they imagine is preferable. They will call this SOCIAL JUSTICE; humans masquerading as arbiters of justice and hoping we do not notice that they are reincarnations of Joseph Stalin.
See: POLITICS
Posted: 2 Jan 2023
