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‘White privilege’ made her do it

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‘White privilege’ made her do it

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DiJonai Carrington may have committed the most educational flagrant foul in the history of basketball. I was discussing the episode with a friend who asked, “Do you remember roller derby?” I confessed I did not. “It was a sport where people enjoyed watching women beat each other up,” he said. I saw the connection immediately. ‘White privilege’ did not appear spontaneously in professional sports. It has an intellectual pedigree. It reminded me of undergraduate classes in which feminists argued that women should run the world because they are more level-headed, calm, and compassionate than men. I had also watched some of those same people treat conservative colleagues with remarkable contempt. The theory and the behavior did not always match. The WNBA has lately offered a rather vivid reminder that women, being human, are perfectly capable of aggression, rivalry, resentment, and the occasional refusal to accept responsibility. During Saturday’s game between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fe

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