Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:36:16 -0400

From: Ron Butters RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Re: "Privilege" as a Verb



Fred Shapiro writes:



In my previous message about

_privilege_

I gave a 1977 usage, but upon

reflection I see that this may

simply be the old sense rather

than the

Marxist/postmodernist sense.



I'm still troubled about that "Marxist" label--most of the citations that Mr.

Shapiro lists have nothing to do with Marxism that I can see. Perhaps he

would care to clarify his usage?