Professor Dae Elliott, who teaches sociology at San
Diego State University, offers her students credit for taking a quiz analyzing
their privilege, as explained here in the New York Post.
It’s not so clear if non-white students take the quiz.
If the purpose the quiz is to perpetuate identity
politics and the emphasis on group oppression, or the pimping of victimization,
then it would seem to further the bubble world of speech codes and trigger
warnings on some campuses.
But it encourages the student to look at his or her
individual karma and perhaps make some amends for it, it could promote justice. Even so, overemphasizing “right-sizing” can
be an invitation to authoritarianism (either on the right or left, with
differences on whether there are pretenses of equality). To remain free, people have to reach out of
their personal bubbles out of their own volition (“willingly” as my mother would
have said) and lift others up, without having to keep score. It is hard to practice what you preach.
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