The common trap with talking about priviledge is once you do it enough, it's awfully easy to slip into an inability to think in any other terms, to see when it's _not_, in fact, the subject of conversation at hand.
one of the common things to say about raising privilege is how people who do so see privilege under every rock. as a matter of fact is practically under nearly every rock. it's in the unmarked language of what is considered "normative" - once it's in language it's just about everywhere. it's also in social attitudes. it's in the culture. it's also in the physical artifacts.
this point is usually raised to look away from one's own privilege in situ.
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You do have a point that I, too, mis-focussed, and I apologise for expressing my irritation at the group as a whole as opposed to its subset of the original poster and all the yay-sayers.
you still misfocus. you're still blaming the oppressed for pointing out the oppression.
No, I'm blaming some of the oppressed for seeing oppression everywhere, including places where it's not, and for not acknowledging that such places might possibly exist.
"under every rock"
this point is usually raised to look away from one's own privilege in situ.
* * *you still misfocus. you're still blaming the oppressed for pointing out the oppression.
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ps are you still arguing about requiring hedge language?
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No, I think at this stage I'm no longer arguing about anything.