Sentence examples for unearned privilege from inspiring English sources

"It still carries an unearned privilege.

But public outrage over unearned privilege is still growing.

The Tories will suffer too, because of the reinforced perception of unearned privilege.

We will say that you are an affront to democracy and a symbol of unearned privilege.

All of this would seem to mock the infantile complacency of people protected by unearned privilege.

No one asks the rich white kid if unearned privilege got him into Harvard.

Let it also lose its unearned privileges.

It is rather like asking, "What is it to be white?" It connotes unearned privileges that have been used to dominate and exploit.

"It's always been true of the so-called upper class in America that they paid for their unearned privileges with a certain amount of anxiety," said Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., author of "Old Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America".

Guns return power in the minds of those who make a false equivalence between the perceived loss of their unearned privileges over everyone else and the actual loss of rights that women, gays, and people of color have historically endured.

The paper goes right up front with its real concern: preserving a status quo that gives Colorado (along with ten or twelve other "battleground" states) special, unearned privileges, while depriving the voters of the rest of the country of any meaningful role in Presidential elections.