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Percy writes that, " It seems to me that it is power or control that gives one the ability to discriminate..."This is very different from "privilege" as applied to an entire race. That's just nonsense, as anyone other than our current Sociology professors would realize."Privilege" is getting too close to "original sin" aka "the sins of the fathers." That goes back to, "Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation. More nonsense.Ayn Rand demolished this whole "original sin" nonsense, and I think the "privilege" argument at the same time:

What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledgehe acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evilhe became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his laborhe became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desirehe acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joyall the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he wasthat robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without lovehe was not man.

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Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin. His evil, they charge, is that he’s man. His guilt, they charge, is that he lives.

Apply the meaning of that passage to the nonsense being heaped on the white race by those same Sociology professors and their ilk, and the parallels are not hard to find.The whole argument behind the "privilege" accusation depends upon the victims of that accusation accepting a collective guilt ("sins of the father," remember?).I choose not to accept that guilt, nor "original sin" in any form. Further, I consider both concepts inherently evil.