Writing this letter took a lot of courage, especially after seeing all of the ad hominem attacks and ridicule directed at Tal Fortgang ‘17 in response to his article in the Princeton Tory. However, ...
The first time I started to think about my privilege as a disabled person was about six years ago, when I got worried about whether or not my college's disability services would provide me with ...
I am among the most privileged people on the planet: a well-educated, healthy, tall, white, heterosexual male. I am not sure which of those adjectives provide me with more privilege than the others ...
We like to get incensed about the terrible things other people do. Especially when they manipulate the system. Unfairness—in the form of privileged people who buy their way into opportunities harder ...
One of the many important national conversations taking place these days involves recognition and awareness of privilege. To some people, privilege is a negative thing and something to be ashamed of.
The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix In a column last Friday, I discussed “privilege,” which often means money: “She comes from privilege ...
“Check your privilege!” It happened again last week. I was speaking about feminism to a large and vocal audience and my views were, rightly, coming under scrutiny. I was accused of criticizing #MeToo ...
They won’t like it. It will make them angry. Good. Because tactics like “Check your privilege” are designed to make us angry, to put us off-balance, to baffle us and suck us down into a rabbit hole of ...
My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do. Credit...Photo illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban ...
The top three most popular articles right now on the online Jewish magazine Tablet all deal, in one way or another, with the question of Jews and privilege. The most interesting of the three, as well ...
It happened in less than two minutes. On March 25, Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk was on her way to meet her friends to break her Ramadan fast when she was taken into custody. The ...