Rights and privileges are two entirely different things.

[TM99]

10. Yes.

Otherwise, it becomes logically nonsensical.

I find it more useful to acknowledge the struggles that individuals due to both personal and cultural experiences must face as opposed to shoehorning into social justice politics a sociological theory that taken to the extreme does not make sense to real people. I find it more useful to focus on rights than on privilege.

A disabled man - white or not - deserves to be treated with respect and afforded full civil rights. A gay woman - white or black - deserves the same. A poor white man and a poor black man are both poor. I support economic justice that supports both.

The post New Left focus on 'calling out', 'privilege', 'positionality', etc. were not needed by those of us fighting for civil rights and social & economic justice issues 30 years ago. I do not see them as being particularly helpful, useful, or successful now. And I am not alone.