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White Privilege: A Brief Inspection
My Dear Readers, The following is a brief inspection of the theory of white privilege. I was forced by a terrible professor of mine to write a piece on white privilege as a way of making amends for offending her … Continue reading
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Tagged crux of the matter, error of my ways, intellectual honesty, intellectual integrity, kendall clark, oppression, Peggy McIntosh, philosophy, political correctness, political incorrectness, politically correct, politically incorrect, politics, Racism, racist, reason, road to damascus, saul on the road to damascus, WEB DuBois, whiskey, White Privilege, white supremacy, writing
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The Eggshells of Racism: Tread Lightly
Black women. Two words that, without any additional context, are completely innocuous. There is no further meaning or semantic content within the conventional implicature about the descriptive, “two black women.” Suppose then that additional content is furnished, say, that you … Continue reading
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Tagged conventional implicature, conversational implicature, ethnicity, Frege, Grice, implicature, language, PC, philosophy of language, political correctness, politically correct, principle of cooperation, race, Racism, super maxim, supermaxim
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