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Checking Progressive Privilege (Encounter Broadsides Book 60) Kindle Edition

by Carrie L. Lukas (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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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.

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Carrie L. Lukas is the president of Independent Women’s Forum. She is coauthor of Liberty Is No War on Women, and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism.

She previously worked on Capitol Hill for the House of Representatives Republican Policy Committee and at the Cato Institute. She contributes to National Review and Forbes and is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (July 23, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 23, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Lisa M. Mandina

While most I already knew, some ideas definitely made me think.

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2021

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I saw this on another book blog last November I think and searched it out after reading its synopsis. I used to consider myself pretty conservative, but I’ve come to be much more of a centrist. And one thing I’ve always had an issue with is the hypocrisy of many who call themselves progressive. This book puts what I’ve always thought into well explained terms and even gives suggestions for why this is the way it is and what things we might try to do in order to work on this. We need the people who say they want to work together with the other side and work on compromise to be willing to actually do that, to think on how other people see things and work to compromise, not just steam-roll their own beliefs as the only ones. I know that I used to like to argue with people all the time. It didn’t matter their viewpoint though, I liked to be the devil’s advocate and come up with the opposite of what they thought. Even when they agreed with what I thought I was right, by doing this, I often convinced myself to change my own thoughts and opinions. I wish everyone was able to do this. Until people can do that, I think we will continue to struggle as a country at coming together and working for the good of everyone.

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Eric Mayforth

A Call for Vigorous Debate

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2020

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There are many kinds of privilege alleged in contemporary society, but in this short pamphlet that can be read in less than an hour, Carrie Lukas examines a form of privilege that is ubiquitous but seldom acknowledged—progressive privilege. The Left has been allowed to set the vast majority of the terms of cultural debate in the country, which has led to polarization and mistrust. Lukas describes how both sides of the political spectrum and society in general would benefit if the general expectation in political discussion was fair, respectful debating of facts. The author makes solid points, and "Checking Progressive Privilege" is a worthy critique of the state of discourse in the country today.

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midwesthiker

A must read, especially if you think you’ll disagree

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2019

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This book is short, but well worth purchasing. It presents a solid case for understanding different political views and how to move forward in such negative times. No matter your political affiliation, you will benefit from this. It’s a great conversation starter.

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A. C. Walter

Will cultural imperialism always be with us?

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2019

Carrie Lukas gives us a laudable primer for a national discussion on the social privilege enjoyed by Western progressives. She fights fire with fire in exposing and emphasizing this widespread double standard. And she does so to point us all toward a better way of interacting with our neighbors and diverse communities and of looking at Power.

Certainly, the trend of the past couple of decades--at least on the American coasts, in its northern regions, in its education institutions, and in its dominant media--has been one of drumming conservatives into silence and submission. For a movement which denigrates the >>cultural imperialism<< of past eras, progressivism has proved itself adept at employing exactly that phenomenon to gain and extend its influence in schools, the religious sphere, the very fabric of the American family, etc.

Reading Lukas here reminded me of Jonathan Haidt's wonderful 2011 speech, "The Bright Future of Post-Partisan Social Psychology." In that speech, made to an esteemed convention of his peers in the field, Haidt spoke of the miniscule number of conservatives in the field as proof that it had become a "tribal moral community" with a hostile climate to outsiders.

Until we all--left and right alike--recognize the privilege afforded to progressives in our society, all rantings about toleration and diversity can be nothing better than hot, empty air.

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Richard B. Schwartz

Turnabout is Fair (and Necessary) Play

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020

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This is a brief, trenchant book that makes a simple but easily overlooked point. For years the left has ridden the meme of white/male/heterosexual, etc. privilege into the sunset. The author uses the women's studies professor Peggy McIntosh as an example. McIntosh prepared a paper on white and male privilege in 1988. Part of the paper's title included the words, "a personal account of coming to see . . . ". The paper is like the observational humor of standup comics like George Carlin or the questionings of news/tv man Andy Rooney. The difference is that it is not funny. Basically, the author has an epiphany in which she notices the examples or vestiges of white, male privilege everywhere. Two examples:

"I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely and positively represented."

"I can choose blemish cover or bandages in 'flesh' color and have them more or less match my skin."

The author counters by indicating that, on the contrary, 'progressive privilege' is common throughout our society—in the mainstream news media, in the entertainment media and in our colleges and universities. Two examples:

"I can depend on the content I hear on government-funded public television and radio to overwhelmingly feature progressive views."

"I expect the media to inflate the number of people who attend progressive events and rallies, while ignoring or undercounting attendance at conservative events."

I'll add two of my own:

"I can walk into any English department meeting and expect to hear a caustic and often uninformed statement about conservative politicians go completely unchallenged and, instead, secure nods of approval."

"I can look at any university pronouncement and expect a celebration of 'diversity' that refers only to the skin color or sexual inclinations of selected portions of the population and has no concern whatsoever for intellectual diversity."

Bottom line: progressive privilege is omnipresent in those sectors of our society which seek to both form opinions and shape/direct/control human behavior. It is time that we noticed that and spoke up about it. Of course, we have noticed it and we have spoken up about it, but Carrie Lukas makes the point in lucid and compelling ways. Those of us who live with these realities daily can readily nod our approval. The book should be handed (and I do not mean this to be a criticism) to the naïve repeaters of ideology who have given little thought to the fact that progressive ideology dominates our so-called 'elite' culture and can bring effects that are deleterious and destructive. One of the great counters to those efforts is Encounter Books and their Broadside series.

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