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    Checking Progressive Privilege
    Checking Progressive Privilege
    Checking Progressive Privilege
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    Checking Progressive Privilege

    By Carrie L. Lukas

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    Progressives have taught us that it doesn’t take overt discrimination to make society unfair. Privilege afforded to different groups—such as whites, males, and heterosexuals—can infect our cultural institutions, creating unfair burdens for other groups.

    But one form of privilege has been overlooked: progressive privilege. Today, the progressive worldview is depicted as what is normal, right, and worth celebrating by our cultural institutions. Conservatives are marginalized and stereotyped in entertainment, news, academia, and throughout our culture.

    Progressive privilege isn’t just unfair to conservatives; it has warped our entire political environment and made our country more divided. Recognizing progressive privilege is the first step to ending it, so that we can have a fairer, more truly inclusive society. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEncounter Books
    Release dateJul 23, 2019
    ISBN9781641770873
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      Checking Progressive Privilege - Carrie L. Lukas

      ENCOUNTER BROADSIDES

      Inaugurated in the fall of 2009, Encounter Broadsides are a series of timely pamphlets and e-books from Encounter Books. Uniting an 18th century sense of public urgency and rhetorical wit (think The Federalist Papers, Common Sense) with 21st century technology and channels of distribution, Encounter Broadsides offer indispensable ammunition for intelligent debate on the critical issues of our time. Written with passion by some of our most authoritative authors, Encounter Broadsides make the case for ordered liberty and the institutions of democratic capitalism at a time when they are under siege from the resurgence of collectivist sentiment. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Introduction

      Part One: What Is Privilege?

      Knapsacks of Privilege

      Part Two: How Progressive Privilege Works

      Part Three: Progressive Privilege—Why It Matters

      Increased Polarization and Distrust

      Discouraging Political Participation

      Part Four: Checking Progressive Privilege

      Copyright

      INTRODUCTION

      SOMETHING IS very wrong with our political culture today. That’s one of the few areas of agreement in this era of contentious and uncivil debate.

      We need to restore a climate in which we can productively debate across the political divide and decide upon different policies, leaders, and paths forward. We want to create an environment where more good people seek to get involved in leading our communities and country.

      This Broadside explores one overlooked phenomenon that helps fuel the lack of civility in the debate between sides, makes it harder to distinguish facts from falsehoods, and discourages good people from getting involved.

      This phenomenon is the privilege afforded to the progressive worldview by many of the most influential institutions of our society.

      You may feel like you are already well familiar with the progressive privilege concept, which sounds a lot like liberal media bias, and has been explored in many books and forums. It isn’t a great revelation to hear that journalists at major newspapers and

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