ball's in your court, Erik

Falguni Sheth is at her considerable best when she points out the racism at the core of excuses for the murder of Muslims. It should go without saying, but: if we take privilege seriously, as a theory, and actually apply its precepts to better understand the world-- rather than to use it as a cudgel to enforce unthinking support of Obama, and to silence dissent-- well, there's no way it can do anything but compel us to excoriate supporters of drones. If privilege is what we say it is, almost no one in the world has less than poor children in Yemen or Pakistan.

I look forward to Erik Loomis lecturing Dr. Sheth about how she only feels this way because of her white male privilege.