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Do Americans   disbelieve   in privilege for purely ideological reasons, or is it due to a basic misunderstanding? Photo by   Arseny Togulev   on  Unsplash . . Originally Published on Medium . . Privilege seems to be most fiercely denied, or downplayed when it comes to skin-color, and somewhat less so, gender. Yet, Americans, who seem to discount the prevalence of privilege in every way, surely cannot believe there is no such thing as privilege, except conceding that a person with considerably more wealth than another person is privileged. To that end,   what other areas of life do we see privilege playing out on a daily basis? . Most of these other categories of privilege are not politically or ideologically challenged. Particularly, if I mentioned these categories in a one-on-one conversation, without mentioning skin color or gender privilege. While you, and I are not in a face-to-face venue now, I hope to provide some context about how privilege seeps in...

Photo by   Zdeněk Macháček   on  Unsplash First published on Medium .

White Fetish and Fantasy Jesus  (Photo:   Mateus Campos Felipe   /   Unsplash ) First published on Medium . . When I was Republican white boy woke, I almost noticed something missing from before. I was seeing our color-blind caste system with new eyes. There, right in front of me, was the strangest and most unknowable sight. The outlines of something called racism, which no liberal can see in a conservative’s heart or mind, so we cannot be considered racist. . Seeing no color, due to being blind from it, I could hardly believe what I was not really seeing. In every instance where   racist data   pointed ,   gathered   by liberals, there were problems in our society. Most conservatives like myself said, those white culture discrediting data discoveries are merely remnants and residue from   Technicolor   images of the past, which we whites can no longer see. . I wish it was easier to explain away. Explaining away is such a cherished feat...

  Photo by Michael Longmire on  Unsplash First Posted on Medium .  When science and education are held back by dogmatic and despotic ideas, we forfeit a better future. Others will pass us by as we cling to yesteryear perspectives, and built on sand falsehoods. Fear of change, and the slow-roll of new knowledge has been the bane of our advancement . Our guardrails may seem wide spread and favorable, but insinuating forces are making strides to narrow our growth, and disallow much flex to a newer, better society. . My science and education repression and regression theory is based on how the American political process and government incorporates its religious, economic, and historical mythos. The United States has many idiosyncratic religious, economic, historical, and political variances. While not all are totally unique to our nation, the twists, turns, schisms, and divisions produced are not easily compared to another, or revealed in one simplistic illustration. My goal...