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negatively privileged en · ADJ

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1. Lacking benefits or advantages in society.
   • When a negatively privileged challenger faces a positively privileged target, exchange and persuasion are not likely, because the challenger has no positive inducements for the target. The initiative therefore rests with the challenger. 1993, Anthony Oberschall, Social Movements: Ideologies, Interests, and Identities, page 98:
   • Second, one might misunderstand Weber, as well as what follows, as an attempt at a complete explanation of the failures of negatively privileged groups to act politically in their own interests. 2016, Jason Stanley, How Propaganda Works, page 233:

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