In the sprawling General Motors plant here, age and seniority confer privileges, while youth requires optimism and patience.
What seems to have divided Americans in this election is not disagreement over America's unique calling, but whether that vocation confers privilege or responsibility.
What greater proof could you ask for of our society's warped view of sexual violence than the fact that commentators can describe being a female assault victim as a "coveted state that confers privilege" even as case after case results in such women being publicly lambasted and abused?
Mr López Obrador, the son of a shopkeeper in the southern state of Tabasco, does have a greater ability to connect with poor Mexicans, but he owes this more to what he says than to how he says it.Mr López Obrador's point is that the system confers privilege on the few at the expense of the many.
Third, in conferring privilege on those who experience particular forms of oppression, we may obscure or slight the shared vulnerability of all human beings.
In the column, he appeared to reference rape survivors as "especially privileged young adults" and suggested "victimhood [is] a coveted status that confers privileges".
Such status confers privileges, including reserved places for admission to universities and for government jobs.
It branded the casino as the youngest, hippest, hottest spot in Vegas (which conferred privileges: George befriended Britney Spears and would later help get her marriage annulled).
Colleges and universities have now learned, he writes, "that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate"; he sees this quite plainly in "the supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a.a
Yet in the Washington Post late last week, columnist George Will wrote about campus rape, claiming that being a victim in college has become "a coveted status that confers privileges", and that "victims proliferate" because of all these so-called benefits.
