Are White Men Privileged Because They Aim to be Sociopathic?

Double standards and the trouble with secular humanism

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In progressive circles, unearned privilege is forbidden. Think of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden,” according to which white men are obliged to colonize so-called backward societies, to tame their “Sloth and heathen Folly.” Talk of that burden in the…