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Hugo Rifkind

I’ve checked my privilege, thanks. I’m still right

6 June 2013

1:00 PM

6 June 2013

1:00 PM

This week, I bring you a dispatch from the frontline of pseudo-intellectual, metropolitan navel-gazing. This is, after all, what you pay me for. So right now the big thing for people who consider themselves warriors against nasty isms and phobias (of the sexism and homophobia varieties, not the Blairism and arachnophobia varieties) is to undermine each other constantly via accusations of intrinsic privilege.

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