"Confront Your Privilege." So reads a "subtly coercive" sign on display at tony American liberal-arts colleges. Why coercive? Because, as Wilfred McClay explains in an illuminating recent essay in First Things, what such signs are really telling the students is, "Feel Guilty." Feel guilty about the money that sent you here, and the advantage conferred by the degree that you will receive. Oh, and in the meantime, "pay us $50,000+ a year so that we can certify the very privilege for which you are apologizing."
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