privilege as a meme

still not true in most work environments

― 乒乓, Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:54 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

school, too. i went to suburban farmville maryland middle school and there were maybe 10 kids in my year that weren't white.

(out of 200-250)

there's plenty of v segregated work around if you want it

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/

I think we should start shortening this word to "priv" as in "Hey, check the priv"

seconded

motion is passed

check your rules of order priv

check the record
check the priv's post record

bare joeks priv

http://24.media.tumblr.com/8ab97189f478c80ce1986044b9afe206/tumblr_mm3hnqJESi1rby04wo1_500.gif

oh my god

http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/images/wpc_home_header2.gif

tbrr if that was reasonably accessible to me I would go to that in a heartbeat Hoos Mexican notwithstanding

Mex yr priv

every time I see this thread title, I get Bjork stuck in my head

Imagine how she feels

she seems pretty cool with it afaict

lol dan

I am now going to read it to that tune every so single time. Damn you, Dan!!

wait, wait, but that check your privilege gif, omg

her tumblr is suspect
it's privilege as a meme

The Weekly Standard went to the White Privilege Conference.

Sue et al. (2007) have expanded on the term microaggression by introducing four distinct forms of microaggression in the context of racial microaggression.:[5]

Microassault: An explicit racial derogation characterized primarily by verbal or nonverbal attack meant to hurt the intended victim through name calling, avoidant behavior, or purposeful discriminatory actions.
Microinsult: Characterized by communications that convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person’s racial heritage or identity.
Microinvalidation: Characterized by communications that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person.
Microrape: Characterized by predatory non-physical prurient communications with the intent to penetrate the victim's emotional security on the basis of heteronormative impositions.

those are all things, they didn't need to be defined and given names though. all can be filed under 'cuntery'

Microrape

yeah the names are downright unhelpful as they, uh, macroinvalidate the legitimate points being made owing to their comical nature

microrape sounds like a fake company name from office space

 ‘White Trash’ Solidarity: Reject the ‘White,’ Embrace the Trash.

i wanted to go to that

it sounds great

It sounds like it would be hilarious for about five minutes, then crushingly depressing.

every time i see this thread's title i think of
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/It_was_my_privilege

Sue et al are really, in my view, irresponsibly trivializing that whole layer of almost-imperceptible oppression I call "the mini-micro":

Mini-microassault: Proceeding under the micro-assumption that categories like micro-race and micro-gender exist. It's micro-liberals we most need to persecute about this, because they should know better.
Mini-microinsult: Self-censoring communications that would, if spoken aloud, convey micro-rudeness and micro-insensitivity and demean a micro-person’s micro-racial heritage or identity.
Mini-microinvalidation: Characterized by skirting around communications that might be seen (even incorrectly) to exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a pre-person (for definition, see Katz et al's The Mini-Micro-Slaughter of Personhood).
Mini-microrape: That flicker of the eyes. You know the one.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Gramsci.png/220px-Gramsci.png

Is the guardian worse than it used to be

did the guardian used to be better than it currently is?

When viewed from the pov of aged privilege i guess

said "check your privilege" to someone in the office the other day -- first time I have ever actually used it outloud. It was sort of half-ironic, but it was because the person I was talking to set something up as "gay people" vs "regular people" -- I don't really remember the exact context but it was along those lines.

Is the guardian worse than it used to be

It should just become a tumblr, as that's what it reminds me of.

twitter lost its shit for a minute when laurie penny's piece on priv seemed to locate its origins in the internet, rather than in the decades-old analysis of women of color feminism.

Twitter in "can't read for shit" shocker.

i mean

she decidedly elided the history of the notion

while managing to imply that it came from ~the internet~

I thought Twitter was losing a shit because of supposed plagiarism?

"Losing a shit". I like that.

granted, as she said, she only had 600 words--but it seems a little irresponsible to imply it came from one place while completely leaving out its actual origins

I thought Twitter was losing a shit because of supposed plagiarism?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 4:06 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on the laurie penny thing? i hadn't heard about this.

I was going to post this image but it's maybe pushing nsfw in it's PG-13ness but

here

"pushing"