Journalism, privilege, and victim narratives
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A lot of people have read Jared Yates Sexton’s tweets about getting death threats after he outed a Reddit user who made a gif about Trump […]
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Not breaking news: A white privileged person bashes another white privileged person
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A professor in the US, who is white, wrote on her Facebook that Otto Warmbier “got exactly what he deserved. She claimed he had the “typical […]
The layers of [white] privilege
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a lot of talk about “white privilege,” primarily in the United States but also in some other academic and intellectual circles. Often these conversations […]
The way we are taught to give charity reinforces racism and privilege
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I watched a video about an “inventive” new display encouraging people to give charity. It showed someone swiping a credit card over a video display and […]
