privilege as a meme

ftr nothing hugo schwyzer says ever matters

But this is fun. Oh is it EVER fun.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/07/male-feminist-hugo-schwyzers-early-retirement.html

doesn't even mention that he's a rapist who blamed his victim

Someone's back! SORT of.

man this is getting uncomfortable

Honestly unsure if it's really him or someone's just hacked in.

for a hack it seems strangely self-consistent

i buy it - it's dark and specific enough that i really doubt it's the hairpin equivalent of the SYRIAN ELECTRONIC ARMY or whatever (though i'm sure the "i was hacked!" excuse is just around the corner/whenever the seroquel kicks in)

We have a winner

Hugo Schwyzer = Gaius Baltar

lol

haha

wasn't hacked, this is the most obvious Next Step for any manipulative asshole who's ever lived, isn't it?

self-hating/self-serving twitter confessionals during a manic break? I dunno if that's generally applicable.

how familiar r u with hugo

he knows most of the world is going to default pity him for it, i'm not going to join in

he's a rapist and an attempted murderer and every horrible thing he's saying about himself is true, the only direction he can go is up, this is the way to get there, he doesn't deserve an ounce of pity

Wow, I don't follow him bc I have never felt he had anything to say that I wanted/needed to hear but yikes -- that's quite a spiel. What's it doing hidden in here?

http://andrea366.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/the-problem-with-privilege-by-andrea-smith/

Political projects of transformation necessarily involve a fundamental reconstitution of ourselves as well. However, for this process to work, individual transformation must occur concurrently with social and political transformation. That is, the undoing of privilege occurs not by individuals confessing their privileges or trying to think themselves into a new subject position, but through the creation of collective structures that dismantle the systems that enable these privileges. The activist genealogies that produced this response to racism and settler colonialism were not initially focused on racism as a problem of individual prejudice. Rather, the purpose was for individuals to recognize how they were shaped by structural forms of oppression. However, the response to structural racism became an individual one – individual confession at the expense of collective action.

damn

i get kind of lost once shit get deep but the thesis is on point imo

a friend of mine who's been loudly skeptical of white privilege before posted this with endorsement so i had been not looking forward to reading it, but this looks great so far

Native peoples are not positioned as those who can engage in self-reflection; they can only judge the worth of the confession. Consequently, the presenters of these narratives often present very nervously. Did they speak to all their privileges? Did they properly confess? Or will someone in the audience notice a mistake and question whether they have in fact become a fully-developed anti-racist subject? In that case, the subject would have to then engage in further acts of self-reflection that require new confessions in the future.

To quote one of my activist mentors, Judy Vaughn, “You don’t think your way into a different way of acting; you act your way into a different way of thinking.” Essentially, the current social structure conditions us to exercise what privileges we may have. If we want to undermine those privileges, we must change the structures within which we live so that we become different peoples in the process.

this really rings true for me, the projects i try to spend time on are big on "building anti-oppressive culture" and this clicks with that

Hiram Perez similarly analyzes how the white subject positions itself intellectually as a cosmopolitan subject capable of abstract theorizing through the use of the “raw material” provided by fixed, brown bodies. The white subject is capable of being “anti-“ or “post-identity,” but understands their post-identity only in relationship to brown subjects which are hopelessly fixed within identity. Brown peoples provide the “raw material” that enables the intellectual production of the white subject.

this is the good kind of skepticism imo

your friend prob didn't read it

kind of a bummer conclusion tho

Based on this analysis then, our project becomes less of one based on self-improvement or even collective self-improvement, and more about the creation of new worlds and futurities for which we currently have no language.

oh great sign me up i guess...

hah. well.

the point she actually goes on to make is cool tho

At the 2005 World Social Forum in Brazil, activists from Chiapas reported that this movement began to realize that one cannot combat militarism with more militarism because the state always has more guns. However, if movements began to build their own autonomous zones and proliferated them until they reached a mass scale, eventually there would be nothing the state’s military could do. If mass-based peoples’ movements begin to live life using alternative governance structures and stop relying on the state, then what can the state do? Of course, during the process, there may be skirmishes with the state, but conflict is not the primary work of these movements. And as we see these movements literally take over entire countries in Latin America, it is clear that it is possible to do revolutionary work on a mass-scale in a manner based on radical participatory rather than representational democracy or through a revolutionary vanguard model.

didn't sarkozy fuck up a bunch of autonomists in france tho?

yes. i think there's a lot we can learn from chiapas, and that one of the lessons is that "you will get fucked up by people that have more explosions than you do"

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/entrepreneurship-the-ultimate-white-privilege/278727/

http://aseasonedplateofmurder.tumblr.com/post/37223757218/privilege-hierarchy

lol

I will be a junior in college in the fall.

Women are always less privileged than men REGARDLESS of race. So that means when a man rapes a woman that it is always rape.

oh so THAT'S what that means

also my post here was couple of years too early: ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL

so these tumblrs are actually real, huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93L8r19il4

Won't someone think of the "pans/demi" mens? By which I mean, they do not appear on the list. Which is a real omission because I might be basing some important life decisions on this list.

pans/demi men are up at the top obv

i found myself silently arguing with some placements on that list before slapping myself in the face.

would it surprise anyone the person who made this list is in college

what does "pans/demi" actually mean? because "pansexual" and "demisexual" seem to be completely different concepts that wouldn't really go together

my job just fired someone for being a pans/demi woman, so maybe my eyes just aren't open enough

unless that's a typo and she meant "pants/demi", aka women who wear capris

pretty sure I own that White Pans / Demi Female split 7"

ha maybe being sexually attracted to everything is the same as being sexually attracted to nothing? think about it.

because "pansexual" and "demisexual" seem to be completely different concepts that wouldn't really go together

they are both outwith our normal privileged concepts of sexuality and thus together at the bottom of the oppression pyramid.

what a wonderful tumblr

it's quite the rollercoaster ride isn't it