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 […]
Tag Archives: white privilege
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 […]
Dead Poet’s Society was a Bull**** movie, why did we watch it?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Someone at work mentioned “classical music” to me recently and as I was thinking about why we even call it “classical” and not “archaic,” it got […]
Don’t buy into the neo-feudalism of ‘only the educated should vote’
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ‘Democracy is other people, and the ignorance of the many has long galled the few, especially the few who consider themselves intellectuals,’ writes Caleb Crain in The […]
A borderless world of wealth and white privilege
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A friend and I were walking home after a night of discussions and he told me about a student he had who had tried to convince […]
Why a racist cultural elite in Israel fears empowered minorities and seeks to divide
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN One of the common refrains among the Israeli intellectual elites, who self-identify as “left” is that the “others” in Israeli society are racist. Shani Gershi wrote on […]
Does accepting ‘white privilege’ reinforce privilege?
The “white privilege” debate keeps popping up. The latest story is a Jon Stewart debate with Bill O’ Reilly. The crux was that Stewart wanted Bill to “admit” his privilege. […]
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