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⌈ Secret Post #2392 ⌋

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Re: Privilege

[(Anonymous)]

New Anon

I'm not sure if this is exactly what AYRT is talking about, but the concerns about the use of the word "privilege" (as distinct from the concept of privilege) seem at least somewhat similar to the concerns I've had for a while. Let me see if I can articulate those.

It sounds (to me) like what AYRT is trying to describe is the notion that both "advantage" and "disadvantage" are deviations from a sort of "baseline expectation" or zero-point, if one were to think of how-one-is-treated-by-society as a graph. The baseline is zero, advantages are positive numbers, and disadvantages are negative numbers.

(TW: discussion of rape in the following paragraph)

My concern is similar to this. A lot of what are described as "privileges" are simply receiving the zero-point treatment by society which everyone ought to receive. For example, I am a woman. I cannot walk out to my car in a dark parking lot at night without having to think about my potential danger of being raped. This is not something men typically experience (while men can be raped, it is not generally the same sort of omnipresent threat that it is for women). However, I do not consider "being able to go to my car in a dark parking lot without worrying about rape" to be a privilege, in the sense of a bonus or an extra -- it is a right that I, as a woman, am denied in the society in which I live. Being able to go to one's car at night without the fear of sexual assault is a baseline expectation that everyone ought to have. To me, that makes it NOT a privilege.

Essentially, in my intuition of what the words mean, in order to correct unfairness, you remove privileges and restore rights. You give or guarantee everyone the baseline expectations, and you take away the unfair extras. Most of what I see described as "privileges" in social-justice language are not extras; they are what everyone is entitled to but many people are unfairly denied. That's why the use of the word "privilege" makes me uneasy, and what I suspect makes the concept of privilege harder for some people to understand.