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<		There's a certain dignity in being called by your name. But in my eighth grade history class, Mr. Harney refused to remember Patrick. He called me Kevin. To be fair, Kevin is my uncle, and there's only a forty-year age difference between us. And to be fairer, I never corrected him. I'm what you might call easy-going. In fact, I'm what you might call easy-going to a fault. And that fault is apathy. You see, I'm privileged enough to be happily apathetic, which is far from unusual among my white male middle-class contemporaries.
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>		There's a certain dignity in being called by your name. But in my eighth grade history class, Mr. Harney refused to remember Patrick. He called me Kevin. To be fair, Kevin is my uncle, and there's only a forty-year age difference between us. And to be fairer, I never corrected him. I'm what you might call easy-going. In fact, I'm what you might call easy-going to a fault. And that fault is quiet apathy. You see, I'm privileged enough to be happily apathetic, which is far from unusual among my white male middle-class contemporaries.
 My story is not unique. I grew up in a middle-class family in a suburb of a small and economically-middling city. I had two parents (I still do). Each is a defense attorney for indigent clients. They are the sole reason I am not entirely subsumed by capitalist middle-class Acedia bolstered by male and white and straight privilege. So I thank them for that.

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