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Ha, yes indeed. I just meant to at least give him the benefit of doubt. Seems like he's doing a Dawkins.
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He's having a discussion. Maybe starting from a provocative place because he thinks it will stimulate an interesting discussion, maybe because he thinks it will get him attention. But we're all so quick to jump to cynical conclusions that's it's oh so very easy to assume that he's doing it because he's evil/trolling/attention-seeking. And I wonder if that's part of the point of what he's doing - he at one point describes the concept of white privilege as 'totalising' and later as 'phlogiston', which makes me think he's coming at it from a post-modern perspective and looking at how the discourse of privilege is used as a cosh to beat people round the head with, and has to an extent lost touch with its original thrust. Foucault criticised Marxism as a totalising narrative for similar reasons, if I can over-simplify massively.
I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell me that I'm part of the problem...
h2o
careful now.