All Intensive Purposes

Dorcasina suggests that an "insistence on 'intentionality,' and the refusal to take responsibility for anything outside of what one acknowledges about his or her intentions and desires, is at the root of white privilege." Even when that refusal is stunningly obtuse, as in the example she gives (which is as close as I come to watching Oprah, by the way). Via Bitch Ph.D.