Privilege accountancy
2020-02-01 — 2022-08-03
Wherein the practice of mapping social advantage is chronicled and the origins of the privilege walk are traced to psychotherapy-infused critiques, situating power and marginalisation as a staged exercise.
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Placeholder to remind me how people think about power and marginalisation.
Related ad hominem reasoning, conflict theory.
- Christian Parenti, The First Privilege Walk. A little ranty. Christian is angry about the psychotherapy-infused origins of privilege-checking, which he traces back to Marcuse. There is a less ad hominem critique of this ad hominem movement, I think, if that is what you want. But it is a fascinating story.