Critiquing unearned military privilege: unpacking the invisible duffle bag
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This Encounters article explores how unearned privilege in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is structured, how it operates to privilege certain personnel over others with negative implications for the health and well-being of those who are marginalized, and how it can be changed to the benefit of CAF personnel and the organization as a whole, as well as Canadian society. The article adapts Peggy McIntosh’s ‘White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack’ to a military context, to unpack the ways in which everyday military privilege operates in the CAF, like an invisible duffle bag of military norms, policies, power relations, practices, traditions, and training. The checklist can be used to begin, continue, and enhance conversations about military culture change by exploring how individual privilege is connected to and enabled by structural power relations. The article concludes with a discussion of the importance of understanding how military privilege intersects with societal privilege, with concomitant implications for both contexts.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it