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The Practical Result of Elitism and Privilege
Right-wingers don’t see how their reactionary attitudes keep feeding the poor entertainment and sick culture they revile.
A lot of people don’t like hearing the word “privilege.” Privilege impoverishes. Privilege steals. Privilege spoils.
I was verbally attacked by a couple of fascist types when I commented on a conservative fellow writer’s social media share of this tweet made by a TV writer and novelist about Thoreau’s time on Walden Pond:
When I saw this quote, unaware that it had been going around right-wing circles as an example of an attack against a noted figure of traditional American literature, I said, “I wish I’d had the privilege to do something like Walden Pond. I’ve always had to do paying work first, and other work of my own choice second, often not at all.”
Countless hundreds of millions, even billions of people have the same experience as I do.
But apparently Henry David Thoreau is now such a religious figure to the extreme right-wing that in return for the common sense comment I made, I was called…
