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Also an important critique of the framework of privilege. "Giving up" privileges - especially those related to the ability to materially survive - ain't just a race to the bottom but often takes the responsibility for resource/power distribution away from the ruling class. https://twitter.com/AmeliaHorgan/status/1352392560870903813
It's why, like diversity & unconscious bias, privilege discourse has been absorbed by corporations looking to improve their race optics: employees take the full responsibility for performing anti-racist behaviours, employers tick the race box, smile & carry on as normal.
Privilege discourse breaks down further when applied to the realities of working class life. We know that white working class people are killed by the police. We know that Black working class people are killed significantly more, with more violence & brutality.
How low is the bar for liberation if it's a privilege to get killed by police, but less often, or less brutally, than Black people? Liberation can never look like more white deaths in custody. It looks like no deaths at the hands of the state, ever, at all.
Privilege largely makes sense in the cultural sphere: where recongtion, visibility, identity - the assets of cultural capital - are redistributed amongst a group of people who operate within internal hierarchies, but, are all often highly educated, fairly comfortable Westerners.
It can't work as a framework amongst groups of people who are literally fighting for crumbs. In other words, it can't work as the politics of the underclass, internationally but also at home.
