Bye-bye, whiny white dudes: Tucker Carlson, Tal Fortgang and the weakening grip of entitlement

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261. one trouble is with the "sense of accomplishment"

For example, I happen to have had the son of a bank president in one of my classes. Arrogant and dismissive of the poor, he was. He had worked in a factory one summer and said "anybody can do those jobs".

He got an A in my class and was going to get a degree - on a daddy scholarship.

Okay, so he really does "work" a little to get that degree, and then gets his VP job from his dad, or from his dad's connections and takes his rightful place at the top, or near the top and from there he "works" to get to the top.

Now with dad retired, HE is the Bank President.

And he thinks "I worked to get where I am".

Which he did - in some ways.

But in many other ways, he got where he was by his family advantages - the college expenses paid by parents, the initial job he got through family connections, even his summer jobs.

Important for him to recognize the ways he was "born on 3rd base" instead of deluding himself into thinking he pulled himself up by his own bootstraps and everybody else can too.

To complete the analogy though, it seems to me that the advantages, such as they are, to maleness or white skin are less like being born on 3rd base than they are being born perhaps three feet away from home plate - not even enough of an advantage to guarantee a single.