Word: privilegeã
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...Tatum, for instance, praises a white man for recognizing the “inescapability of his privilege?? over blacks. When her son asks her how they—middle-class African-Americans—are underprivileged compared to working-class whites, she tells him, “‘as a young black male, you are underrepresented, and that is a different kind of disadvantage.’” Her assumption that blacks’ representation must match their percentage of the population strips individuals of the ability to make their own choices...
...lionization of celebrities and the perpetuation of anti-intellectual ideals (namely creationism and gender stereotyping) that most other modernized nations have long left behind. Only a stunting of American culture, Jacoby contends, could possibly account for the election of “a walking testament to unearned privilege?? notorious for his public speaking foibles when not half a century ago John F. Kennedy inspired the public by quoting Goethe and Aristotle.These arguments have the potential to ring true among an American readership weary of the pop cultural status quo, but Jacoby jeopardizes her message by shrouding...
...battlefield, why isn’t it murder? Well one of the reasons that it’s not murder is that soldiers, if they act in particular ways, if they’re wearing uniforms and so forth, they are privileged to kill. “Privilege?? is a technical legal term that means they are enabled to kill combatants and also civilians so long as they are doing it for a legitimate military purpose and injury to civilians is necessary to achieve their military objective. That’s where you get words like...
...this article—if people realize my financial state, they not only accept me, but they also have a large amount of respect for me. I have had to jump over the same “hurdles” as the “students of privilege?? that Fitzsimmons mentions...
...professors’ brief took no position on FAIR’s argument that the Solomon Amendment breaches law schools’ free-speech rights. Instead, the professors argued that the government has unlawfully given the military a “unique privilege?? to disregard any school policies that hinder its recruiting efforts...