A brief word on “privilege:” Over the last decade or so, we’ve been treated to endless lectures on that subject from so-called progressives. These insufferable sermons are often some combination of tendentious, weaponized and antiquated. Recently, we’ve seen many of these same people — from the safety and comfort of free societies and tolerant cultures, in which they are imbued with a miraculous array of rights and protections — keyboard warrrioring on behalf of repressive, ass-backward regimes and terrorist groups. These people traffic in morally bankrupt, ignorant moral equivalencies, and outright lies, in order to drag down their own societies while glorifying theocratic tyrants. They do so while posturing as brave, “liberation”-minded dissidents engaging in “resistance”…the authentic versions of which are brutally crushed by their far-away heroes. It’s especially breathtaking seeing this from self-described queer activists, who embarrass themselves and discredit whatever cause they think they’re advancing. Tapping away on expensive electronic devices in the glow of freedom, while spouting off against capitalism and the values of said free society — and fetishizing heinous regimes they’ll never experience or live under? THAT is the *definition* of privilege. Check yours, lecturers.