The Weekly Standard went to the White Privilege Conference.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
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.
― Mordy , Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
those are all things, they didn't need to be defined and given names though. all can be filed under 'cuntery'
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Microrape
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah the names are downright unhelpful as they, uh, macroinvalidate the legitimate points being made owing to their comical nature
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
microrape sounds like a fake company name from office space
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
‘White Trash’ Solidarity: Reject the ‘White,’ Embrace the Trash.
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
i wanted to go to that
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 27 May 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
it sounds great
― Mordy , Monday, 27 May 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
It sounds like it would be hilarious for about five minutes, then crushingly depressing.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 27 May 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
every time i see this thread's title i think of https://encyclopediadramatica.se/It_was_my_privilege
― Sébastien, Monday, 27 May 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Grampsy, Monday, 27 May 2013 05:39 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Gramsci.png/220px-Gramsci.png
― rather ugged man (zvookster), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Is the guardian worse than it used to be
― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
did the guardian used to be better than it currently is?
― Mordy , Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
When viewed from the pov of aged privilege i guess
― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
It should just become a tumblr, as that's what it reminds me of.
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
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.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Twitter in "can't read for shit" shocker.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
i mean
she decidedly elided the history of the notion
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
while managing to imply that it came from ~the internet~
I thought Twitter was losing a shit because of supposed plagiarism?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
"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
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
I was going to post this image but it's maybe pushing nsfw in it's PG-13ness but
here
― walk in the room they throwin Sade left to right (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
"pushing"
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Hovering at the border
― posters who have figured how how to priv (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
No, I just meant that there's probably a lot of pushing in that video. I'm sure my human resources department, or ANYone's human resources department for that matter, would approve.
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
That cover would be better if the movie was called "Clothes"
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
And if he was wearing any
― posters who have figured how how to priv (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3BNRF9ICc
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
Privilege denying nude
― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
but it seems a little irresponsible to imply it came from one place while completely leaving out its actual origins
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, June 5, 2013 4:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is why nothing can ever get done, omg, in-fighting within in-fighting. she was defending the concept of privilege to a bunch of people who are basically just being pig-headed about not getting it, and she's the one twitter loses its shit at?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
otm, the rxn was over the line
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
and 'i only had 600 words' was a p reasonable defense
There is probably an interesting article to be written about the way privilege changed from something that was discussed in the 60s to something that was checked on the internet 50 years later, and the sense in which Louise Mensch would probably see the concepts as coming from the internet, but yeah as you say 600 words.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
so many of these twitter activists are such dicks about their activism. whenever a privilege-denier whines that "check your privilege" is being used as a personal attack on them, whether it's because they're naive or pig-headed or dumb, it still feels like i have to acknowledge that yes, that does happen, and those people are completely misusing the concept because they are awful people
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
lol privilege-denier
― Mordy , Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
oh fuck off mordy
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
I agree with Lex - intersectionality cuts all sorts of ways and it's unwise for a 'serious' activist to trumpet how shallow they are by relying on either skin-deep judgements or some other form of whataboutery that they'd decry from a right-wing, privilege-denying asshole.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
lex otm. It's a shame that privilege-checking, a valid, important, easy to grasp concept, has been ruined in many people's minds by a small hardcore of hyper-aggressive Twitter activists who spend all their time "calling out" prominent left-leaning writers for minor blunders or omissions.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
I pretty much avoid these extended firestorms like the plague because life is too short but just to make sure we're all on the same page; "pretending people of color don't exist" is not considered to be a minor blunder or omission, right?
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
If you're alluding to Girlsgate, I don't want to rehash it here but nobody was "pretending people of color don't exist".
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
I don't actually know what Girlsgate is.
Oh wait, do you mean the HBO show "Girls"? lol no, I know the difference between "ignoring" and "omitting".
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
also feel quite strongly because those people hijack the argument so that it's about whether some people are aggressive on the internet when it should be about privilege itself - not whether it exists but how it affects us, the multiplicity of its manifestations, how to combat it and call it out etc
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
xp Oh, OK, what do you mean then?
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
girlsgate could be a cool kinda chastity belt.
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
These vicious Twitterstorms are like the handful of window-smashers at an otherwise peaceful demo - the aggro sucks up all the oxygen and the cause that we should be discussing gets shoved to the side. People who don't follow this stuff closely come across a concept like "check your privilege" via the worst possible advocates for it and think, oh, it's just something that angry trolls bang on about.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link