Date: 2010-01-18 11:44 pm (UTC)
ZIGACKLY!

That's kind of what I was getting at, and it's a common thread running through a lot of the comments on that review.

One of my policy classes referred to privilege as "the invisible backpack". Us Middle-Class White Folks carry it around, and it's full of all kinds of useful things that we take for granted. I've got a pretty full pack, myself, and part of the reason it IS full -- a good chunk of my economic leverage -- is because of things my ancestors did.

Do I feel "guilty" about that? Not usually, not unless Emo Guy is at the controls, and then the state of the WHOLE DAMNED WORLD is my fault.

Do I feel an obligation to USE the resources in that backpack, and spread them around so that, maybe, just maybe, other people can live slightly less shitty lives?

You betcha.
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