"If you are having 'white' feelings, we are here to stamp out your privilege."

Comment published on New York Times blog in response to news article by Michael Powell, “New York’s private schools tackle white privilege; it has not been easy,” August 27, 2021:

You cannot create social equality, in a society of great inequality, at one exclusive private school.  Try it and you will only get an ugly moralism punishing people for suspected in a general paranoia.  

Few thoughts do I find more chilling than that of being interrogated by some "progressive" inquisitor on whether or not I am having a forbidden "feeling" connected with my European-associated skin color.  And which I am expected to disavow.  The one thing you cannot be guilty of is what you were born as.

Efforts to "stamp out privilege" get played out in very exclusive elite institutions.  Those who are against the class "privilege" of their unfortunately "white" classmates are trying to assert their own, meaning, "I am rightly privileged, but you wrongly so."  

This has chilling echoes of "Communist" countries where the children of shopkeepers were kept out of universities because their families "exploited" the "workers" who must be privileged because once under-privileged, since turning the tables is "justice."  

What we need instead is equal funding for all public school kids based on federal income taxes, instead of local property taxes that generate housing segregation and vastly different educational levels.  

Instead, the liberal-left solution preserves our extreme capitalist inequalities and diverts discontent onto schemes of assigning advantages by demographics, the policing of individual attitudes, and replacing thinking with dogmas.