The cure for privilege.

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13. Really?

There is nothing disrespectful about working, really working, with other people. I am guessing that you assume my use of the word "work" as some sort of attitude adjustment to conform to ideology. It doesn't. It means what the vast majority of people think when the see the word. It means work.

You right. I don't give a rats ass about petty affectations and ideologies worn as social plumage. Here's a little experiment you might like to try. Open Firefox and go to any of those privilege threads. Hit "Control F" and search for the word "union". I've found that in all these flaming discussions about inequality in the workplace nobody seems to remember the concept of collective bargaining. A lot of good people on the left died for it and it barely gets a mention around here now.

I am suggesting that the best thing for human beings of any color to do is to actually try and accomplish a shared goal. Build a house. Dig a ditch. Plow a field. Trade goods. That's how humans learn to get along. The very worst way to get people to treat each other fairly is to tell others how they are supposed to feel and excoriate them if they don't seem to do so to your satisfaction.

You want to be a policy guru? Find a way for people to work together for their mutual benefit and convince them to participate. It works a lot better than trying to make them feel guilty, even if they are a bunch of assholes.