What? Is this a cry for help? Is it ax-grinding? Are there "unorthodox and true" statements that pg would like to make but is afraid of "terrible trouble"? I fi

What? Is this a cry for help? Is it ax-grinding? Are there "unorthodox and true" statements that pg would like to make but is afraid of "terrible trouble"? I find the idea of "orthodox privilege" an oxymoron. I don't understand what the phrase captures that isn't just "privilege". Maybe the whole essay is just going over my head. Or perhaps I don't hear the same "high-pitched noise"? Look, I do something called "Reiki". For some people it's commonplace, for others it's crazy-town. I also do something called "computer programming". For some people it's commonplace, for others it's crazy-town. (Being a computer nerd used to be cause for abuse and shunning, now we're celebrated. So it goes.) My point is, there are lots of ways to rile up the mob and get them to pick up their pitchforks and torches. In some places all you have to do is exist and be black or gay or a woman or white or straight or a man or neither a man nor a woman, or both-at-the-same-time (hermaphrodite), or be both black and white (Trevor Noah's autobiography of his childhood in S. Africa, "Born a Crime", is worth reading, IMO), or be a computer nerd in the locker room at the wrong time, or wear the wrong kind of hat. Mob-ism, with the pitchforks and torches, is a problem (this is hardly news though, eh?)