In the mid-1980s I was traveling with our collegiate debate team from Texas to a tournament in Kansas.  We stopped at a Pizza Hut in Oklahoma for lunch and a waitress attempted to take our drink order.  One of our more outspoken team members asked what the drink options were and she responded that they had ‘Pepsi products.’ What ensued was a lecture from multiple debaters about the evils of Pepsi funding the ‘Reagan war machine.’  It would be wrong to purchase Pepsi drink products, they explained, and they demanded water as their beverages of choice.  Events like this were among hundreds of other compiled events within academic culture conditioning me toward blue privilege.  One of the outspoken characteristics of blue privilege in the academic community is a collective and common outrage at Republican Presidents -- whether presiding or forthcoming.  It is this aspect of blue privilege that is important to understand as so many of...(Read Full Article)