“Privilege” 0
In the context of a much longer post about the antics of Cliven Bundy, his tools, dupes, and symps, Chauncey Devega gives as good a working definition of “privilege” as you are likely to see (emphasis added):
Privilege consists of all those day-to-day things that a given person does not have to think about.
In the context of Cliven Bundy and the rise of the White Right in the Age of Obama, white privilege consists of the freedom for white conservative protesters and militia members to point guns at federal law enforcement agents and to do so with the reasonable expectation that you will not be shot dead.
Moreover, if you are shot dead for brandishing a weapon and/or threatening the life of a federal law enforcement agent, white privilege guarantees that you will become a martyr and hero for movement conservatives and those who are drunk on the fumes of the Right-wing media.
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