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[sorry for the edit RB.  one of the unfair privileges of running a blog - I get to go back and wordsmith stuff when I don't like the words I chose the first time!  In this case you appropriately quoted my first draft.]

Sure, white privilege plays a role, as does black privilege, and Asian privilege, and feminine privilege.  Not trying to be coy, but I'd need you to be more specific, in order to respond.  You mean "should it play a role" or you mean "does it affect our biases" or ?

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Your last paragraph:  if I were dictator of the USA, neo-Nazis would be running very scared.  I don't think millenials have yet figured out what Nazi human experimentation labs were all about.  It trivializes the 1942 Polish mother *so badly* for people to even mention the word Nazi today, much less join a "Nazi" group.

But as to which side is propagating more actual violence, that's another question in my opinion.  Thanks RB.

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When I say militant progressives, I'm referring broadly (and respectfully) to the no-compromise ID politics / socialist economics group that is liable to cost the Democrats the next several elections, and less respectfully to the much smaller subset group of Antifa-style rioters and campus fanatic "take it to the streets" types.  

That's not what everybody means by it; it's what I mean by the term.  The essence of it is the ZERO-compromise "must absolutely be pro-choice to run for office" spirit.  I don't mean "militant progressive" as a slur; I mean it descriptively.

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