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I disagree. Even if you're fallaciously occasioned to "check your privilege", it's still a useful exercise. And doesn't writing off all such invocations make yo
by rosser 13y ago
I disagree. Even if you're fallaciously occasioned to "check your privilege", it's still a useful exercise. And doesn't writing off all such invocations make you guilty of the same kind of prejudicial dismissal you're arguing against, anyway?
- yummyfajitas 13y agoSo what? A privileged person can be correct, and an unprivileged one can be wrong. What do you gain by checking your privilege over checking your reasoning/facts?
- rosser 13y agoThey aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, they're often the very same thing. (Edit: though it's perhaps more about checking premises than argument in many cases.) Consider my original comment in this thread: is it not the case that the kinds of labor leverage that software people have aren't shared by everyone else? Is it not therefore the case that the kinds of libertarianism espoused by so many software people, premised at least in part on that leverage, don't apply to everyone else as much as they seem to think? I submit that if the developers espousing those fallaciously premised flavors of libertarianism were (able) to "check their privilege", they'd arrive at different conclusions.