1/ What is Right Privilege? Walking around so embedded in your own delusion that you know:

- If you shout "law & order" loud enough, the law is what you say it is
- Cops are on your side, before they're enemies
- The hotel bar is relaxing after the insurrection

#rightprivilege

2/ You know:

- Society blowback for your terrorism is just more repression
- Socialism is hell, but tech platforms should be socialized
- Supporting others' needs is just socialism
- But California subsidizing Oklahoma is federalism

#rightprivilege
3/ You know:

- You're ultra-conservative, so stoking civil war isn't radical
- Camo Chic is cool
- No-Fly Lists only apply to brown people who speak Arabic
- Violence will secure your cause by taking back what's yours
- Terrorists can't be white

#rightprivilege
4/ You know:

- Too much about what you think are your rights from society
- Too little about your responsibilities to society
- A lot about a vague specter of socialism you're afraid of, but can't name any specific ways you've ever been truly oppressed

#rightprivilege
5/ You know:

- A strongman can save you if everyone just give him enough power
- Weakness makes you look like a lib
- Kap dishonors the American flag, but a Trump and confederate flag in the Capitol doesn't

#rightprivilege
6/ You know:

- The media is out to get you. Yes, YOU.
- Because the press is the enemy of the people. Which people? C'mon, YOU. (Do try to keep up.)
- The election was clearly stolen, because there's no way more people could have voted than 10 years ago

#rightprivilege
7/ You know:

- You're the real conservative. But haven't read Reflections on the Revolution in... oh, never mind
- The Founders were patriots, had guns, and yelled a lot about tyranny... Against, um, a strongman. With lots of power.

#rightprivilege
8/ You know:

- Now that the Demonrats(!) have power, deficits really matter.
- And a president's words.
- And comity.
- And unity.
- And not stoking division.
- And lives lost to Covid.
- But unending obstruction-at-any-cost is patriotic.

#rightprivilege

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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

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