Trump's 'go back' insult is an expression of privilege, but it's so much more
To tell someone to Go Back , you have to have that noxious thing: privilege. We spend a lot of time talking about privilege, but we’re not always great about nailing down what it means.
Privilege means that there is never a clock ticking for you. It means that you are never told to Go Back. Privilege meansPrivilege means nobody assumes you’re here on sufferance. Privilege means never having to prove yourself. It means never having to show your documents. Privilege means your ideas automatically get a hearing. Or, worse still, your ideas aren’t even debated: they’re assumed to be true. Privilege means a longer shot clock, on every one of these counts.
“Go Back” is the essence of privilege. It’s privilege in its most crystallized form. That’s why, even among Trump’s nauseating history of lies and insults, it sticks out.
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