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Check Your Statist Privilege
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Check Your Statist Privilege

By Ari Armstrong

Jun 13, 2014
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Although it is senseless to campaign against so-called “white privilege” (as I have recently argued), one sort of pervasive privilege is real, it is evil, and it should be not only checked but ultimately abolished. It is the privilege government grants to some people to violate the rights of others. Call it “statist privilege.”

The term privilege in its …

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