Put another way, homonationalists are largely white gay people blinded by privilege and actively working against the well-being of the most vulnerable members of our community.
Technically defined as a tantrum, berrinches are also spoiled little rich kids, blind to their privilege and the effects of their misbehavior.
The starting assumption of the novel, which is set in the 1990s, is that the city's leading families are liberal and well meaning, but they are also blind to their privilege, and are soon forced to confront the limits of their good intentions.
The novel is a fierce interrogation of Californian values of blind hope, uncritical privilege, and innate narcissism.
Jordan Peele on one of the many themes of "Us" In "Us," both factions of humanity — those who blithely enjoy their privilege blind to how their actions affect others, and the Tethered who seek revolution and liberation through a literal severing — wield violence in different forms.
When the #MeToo movement went nuclear, he was candid about the way his privilege blinded him, and how unfair it was that it took his own girlfriend, Asia Argento, levying accusations against Harvey Weinstein in order for him to start honestly considering his own role in a toxic and patriarchal system.
The number of people who are so unaware of their privilege or blind to their risk that they think "nothing to hide/nothing to fear" is a viable way to run a civilisation will only decline from here on in.
I was literally blind to my white privilege.
Sure, there are still secret reactionaries among us, and purported liberals blind to their own privilege and complicity, but the generational consensus around not just tolerance but assumed acceptance is so strong that it hardly takes more than a Facebook shaming to bring these guys around.
