This comment was by rick in reference to the post – Ryan Lochte and our American Privilege Machine
I hope his loss of all his major sponsors provides recompense for his lack of judgement in his drunken stupor. It’s pretty clear that the market and society …from his social ranking today are NOT providing him with the white privilege that protects all white men all the time.
The interesting question here is why the journalists protected him originally (who else protected him other than the news organizations that were reporting it?), and now apparently are blaming society for protecting him?
Where is the article about how the macroeconomic market in the last few decades almost always provides colorblind justice? Where is the article about Journalists occasionally making a mistake using gross stereotypes when they grind their social axe?
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