Jesus, when one leaves academia, one should at least hope to be finally free from the ridiculous habit of privilege-scratching. That doesn’t seem to be the case, though:
I distanced myself a bit from social media these last few months and I’m sorry to discover, upon my return, that there’s trouble in Denmark, so to speak. I’m not even sure of the scope of it as I missed the twitter exchanges that apparently took place, but I can see from blog posts there was a debate about privilege within the post-ac community that has left some feeling like we’re divided and others questioning whether they should continue blogging.
It’s like people have been so enthralled by the magic of “privilege checking” that they can’t break the spell no matter how far they move away from academic circles.
Come on, folks! The best thing about not being in academia is that you never have to hear about “degrees of privilege” ever again. You are free now, so just fly, fly away from the privilegemania.
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