Jason,
I don’t disagree that privilege is an important concept to reflect on. I have led many diversity workshops and am well-versed in unpacking white male privilege. It is important to do so and to be “woke” to these dynamics. And, as you are suggesting, when I look across the landscape at large, I see many folks who are woefully unaware of such dynamics, which is a problem and one that I have been aware of and committed to sense the late 1980s when I became immersed in feminism.
However, IMO, there are also important pockets with certain left leaning circles (e.g., social science/humanities departments in the academy to name one such circle) that the emphasis and framing “overshoots,” and everything becomes focused on the embodiment of race, maleness, and heteronormativity in a socially constructed milieu.
I see it as a complicated dialectic.
Best,
G
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I guess the issue is whether the point regarding oppression is being minimized by Brooks or if it is being exaggerated by others.
I certainly find myself in contexts in the university academy where I feel folks are over-emphasizing white male oppression.
And it is too easy for someone to hear me voice that and then state that I must be saying that because I am a privileged white male and am blinded by self-serving motives (an accusation that has been leveled against me).
G
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Jason,
You don’t see any validity to his point?
I find myself resonating with it. I am a member of the Heterodox Academy (https://heterodoxacademy.org/), which is concerned with the lack of political viewpoint diversity in the academy.
G
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I found this to be a thoughtful article by David Brooks. I find my own life mission oriented toward contributing to conversation and visions having to do with (re)constructing a broader, deeper, wiser global worldview.
Best,
Gregg
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