{"id":27923,"date":"2012-05-16T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/if-you-dont-like-the-term-privilege.html"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:16:49","slug":"if-you-dont-like-the-term-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/if-you-dont-like-the-term-privilege.html","title":{"rendered":"If you don&#39;t like the term &quot;privilege&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then maybe this metaphor from John Scalzi will work with you in understanding about straight, white male, um, privilege.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm8.staticflickr.com%2F7071%2F7203642580_30aee2d0d7.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/05\/15\/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is\/'>Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is \u2013 Whatever<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI&#39;ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word \u201cprivilege,\u201d to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at hi&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ebcg1Q7jXEt' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then maybe this metaphor from John Scalzi will work with you in understanding about straight, white male, um, privilege. Embedded Link Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is \u2013 Whatever I&#39;ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word \u201cprivilege,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/if-you-dont-like-the-term-privilege.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you don&#39;t like the term &quot;privilege&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135545,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/05\/apparently-referring-white-privilege-can-get-suspended-job.html","url_meta":{"origin":27923,"position":0},"title":"Apparently, referring to &#8220;white privilege&#8221; can get you suspended from your job","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Dec-17 1:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because suggesting that white people have intrinsic advantages in our society, and so also have blinders to problems that non-white (non-male, non-cis, non-straight) people have, is apparently, a racist and sexist thing to say in the eyes of certain, as they say, \"snowflakes.\" Heroic Cop Suspended When Officers Complain After\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed-6.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22242,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/unblogged-bits-fri-19-aug-11-2330.html","url_meta":{"origin":27923,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 19-Aug-11 2330)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Aug-11 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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