Privilege As It Applies in American Society
The In this regard, we all have our own stories to tell. Here’s mine:
I was adopted by two sane and productive white people who sacrificed greatly to put my brother and me through private school, college and grad school. First and most obviously, because I was an unwanted pregnancy, I could have been aborted, and I’ll never know why I wasn’t.
But more to the point, I could have just as easily been adopted by people who simply didn’t value education, or honesty, or any of the other virtues that surrounded me as a child.
My aging mother knows that she’s not going to be around forever, and so our conversations tend to become more philosophical and personal as time passes. Recently I brought up this topic, i.e., my profound luck, and she said, “Oh Craig, you would have shone in any circumstances.
I had to smile. This is what mothers do. They find reasons to stay behind their children in all cases, even where, in fact, there are no facts to support what they’re saying. To mothers everywhere!
The meme here presents a grossly stupid and unfair comparison.
To me, the funniest part (if there is one) of the fiasco we Americans are experiencing is that somehow, voters elected a president who has no training in economics to make decisions that are having enormously destructive effects on the U.S. economy.
U.S. child labor laws were put into place in 1938 to protect the educational opportunities of youth and prohibit their employment in jobs that are detrimental to their health and safety. But, as shown at left, today’s mass deportation of immigrants under the Trump administration has put pressure on businesses to find new sources of unskilled labor, and children are the natural target.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, Republicans tended to be conservatives in some legitimate sense of the word. Their values, e.g., honesty, were written into each episode of television shows like Leave It to Beaver and the Andy Griffith Show.
American exceptionalism is a lowbrow concept, to be sure.
What Robert Reich says here is 100% correct; Trump can disappear me–or anyone else who published unflattering material on the president.
And Hegseth’s not just any news anchor; he was on Fox News, a media source that trades in half-truths and lies.
If you think that the 
