Monday, July 02, 2012

Swinging

Privilege. A bad thing, of course. We all know that, don't we? It's unfair. It means that individuals get to benefit from membership in a group when they, as individuals, have not earned these benefits. White privilege and male privilege are burned over territory in that regard.

Thanks to jpnill, I have now discovered the evils of Christian privilege. And that particular moral horror is explained to us by one Dr. Lewis Z. Schlosser. His profile at Roman Catholic Seton Hall University tell us that he does work in dismantling it.

Breathe, Ex Cathedra. Breathe.

Dr. Schlosser is a Jew. Being paid by a Catholic school to dismantle Christian privilege.

I don't know who to want to hang first, him or the ball-less administrators who support his efforts at bringing them down.

Another exhibit in the Whites As The Most Foolish People On Earth trend.

Could I support a fund drive to set up a program for dismantling Jewish privilege at the University of Tel-Aviv?

Does this provoke my Chomsky-Zinn reaction?

Ex Cathedra is a fan of privilege. It's an unavoidable and essential part of any healthy society and culture. Individuals benefit from their membership in a group which, as a group, has secured these privileges*. And privilege, if dismantled for any group, does not disappear. It migrates to another group.
I am not going to write more because, after starting out contemplating a group hanging, my mind and mood are not improving and this post would only get worse.


*Think of it as reverse reparations. A lot of Blacks who have never experienced slavery think that they are owed monetary and other kinds of reparations for their membership in a group which, as a group, has this complaint.

1 comment:

Dr. Lewis Schlosser said...

You'll be pleased to know that I no longer work for Seton Hall University. Please refrain from any other posting in which you make threats to my welfare. Thank you.

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