Reinforcing Privilege

The Atlantic

This video has been all over New York-based internet sites in the past few days. But I don’t think it has yet been on any of the Atlantic’s sites, and it is worth another look for “the way we live now” purposes.
It shows a young woman passenger chewing out a train conductor who has asked her to stop talking so loudly on the phone and swearing. OK, I’ve sometimes gotten exasperated with officialdom, and I am glad that no one had a camera running when I did. But the approach the passenger takes is significant, and stunning.