![]() ![]() The accused “isn’t necessarily going to have some kind of epiphany about justice, but might get very defensive,” she says. To illustrate, she gives the example of a white man telling another white man to check his privilege. Maltz Bovy’s new book, The Perils of Privilege: Why Injustice Can’t Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage, makes the case that the focus on personal privilege risks drawing attention away from bigger structural problems in society. “Very often, someone will acknowledge their privilege as an excuse to not really do anything about anything,” she tells us. But Phoebe Maltz Bovy contends that just being privilege aware is problematic because it doesn’t really advance justice in the way it’s intended. These barbs are meant to remind people that they need to become more socially aware to acknowledge all the unearned privileges they possess. ![]()
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