That way, the longer the strife goes on, the less isolated his Alawites (perhaps 12 percent of Syrians) feel and the more they justify their backs-to-the-wall defense of privileges accumulated over more than 40 years in power.
Anyone who tries to obtain her official communications will face a legal defense of executive privilege.
The "social Darwinism" that was already taking shape was, he felt, just a defense of class privilege.
Harriet Miers, who had declared the President the most brilliant man she had ever met, leaped loyally onto the trash heap of history as she recast her humiliation as a stalwart defense of executive privilege.
Robin understands conservatism as reactionary, a defense of elite privileges against challenges from below.
Plots with Rome were hatched, and the nobility felt itself the equal of the dynasty, ready to revolt in defense of their privileges.
It is thus an inherently elitist and hierarchical ideology, whose essence is the defense of elite privileges against challenges from below.
Becket's defense of special privileges for clergy didn't justify his subsequent murder, of course, but neither should his murder transform him into someone who should be honored for his advocacy of religious freedom.
I'm just going to say what seems obvious. 1) The reason defenses of male privilege tend to be "panicky and halfhearted" is that arguing to uphold male privilege in a contemporary context is unnecessary.
Beginning with Homer and ending with the Obamas, it is the story of the invention and defense of a pigmentary privilege.
