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?