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Another View of Privilege

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Leslie Hawthorn’s recent keynote at OSCON on privilege is unassuming and powerful.

Please watch it and pay attention to this tidbit: privilege can be viewed as operating in a system where all the default settings work for you. This stuck with me, even more than John Scalzi’s (also excellent) gaming metaphor (I’m not a huge gamer).

Watch and think: