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In reply to the discussion: If you are the member of a privileged group AND call yourself progressive [View all]Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 27, 2013, 03:29 PM - Edit history (1)
Other people are privileged (however subjectively that may be defined) and I am not, so my opinions should be evaluated differently than others. I should be given special consideration because of my self-declared status -- which I'm going to deny to everyone else.
Nice tangent on the "burned at the fucking stake" line, by the way. It allowed you so sound very nearly erudite while ignoring the point entirely.
What I'm dismissing out of hand is the notion that because you're not part of my in-group, you can't possibly understand and so my opinion is somehow superior to any facts and logic that you might bring to bear on the subject. My interpretation will always be right because I hold a status that you don't have -- and that I won't grant that status to you. That's damned near intellectual fascism.
I threw that last line in to give a chance to run off to Wikipedia and then post a much more nuanced definition of fascism that will probably be very impressive to some people who aren't me.