[expat2]

It is not "privileged," in the ordinary sense, to have benefited from your family, community or nations' multi-generational struggle to advance.

Of course it is. Whether it is the son of a British earl or the daughter of a US political family, both have benefited from their family's struggle to advance, and are privileged relative to others from a lower class.

However, I do agree with you on your other paragraph. Like you, I see multi-generational purpose as good, but I am willing to recognize that it results in a privileged position for the later generations.

We just need everyone to work towards gaining a privileged position, rather than deciding because of envy to attack those that have one.

[Ohioan]

"Privileged" as the Leftists use it, implies an undeserved position, or an unearned position. You are using the term, certainly, in an acceptable sense, meaning the benefits of earned achievement; a position where one can afford luxuries, etc..

I do not think that we really have a disagreement on the underlying philosophy.

Of course, you will never see some people really apply themselves--even their limited talents--towards getting ahead. Not everyone has a positive bent. But you would see a vastly greater number, doing so, if the media would stop humoring (& carrying water for) the demagogues who play the Blame & Envy Game.

The whole Trayvon Martin gambit, now being played by the Left is like one of the examples of the Big Lie, endlessly repeated exercises of the Jacobins, Marxists or Nazis, and speaks to something incredibly ugly about their intentions.

William Flax