privilege as a meme

that seems fair to me!

Wow I am so unbelievably sorry that I asked

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/11/salons-sexiest-men-of-2013-list-is-cisexist/

"Sam Doloncot" is a fake byline Chez Pazienza uses to troll libs

mordy have you never encountered anthropocentrism

welcome

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413F11M39NL._SY344_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Our relationship with plants, otoh, is merely ironic.

Dude, I *swear* my dog is capable of expressing alienation. Whatever you think of animal rights, being mindful of animal feelings fosters empathy in a way political text can't.

I'm sure caring for plants makes the world a more just place in some way, too!

Like any liberal arts-educated freelance writer and activist from San Francisco who values his progressive culture and identity, I’m a very strong supporter of Salon.com.

Aimless otm

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/111413/sand-privilege.gif

lol at the aveda members club name

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3685/11173016323_2afef0c401.jpg

Pure Privilege Member Number
lololol

that is amazing and I just stole it for Twitter

uh oh
could you not use that link? you're welcome to have the img just don't link it to my flickr page pls!

yeah just changed that

thanks!

also pls enter your Pure Privilege Member Number for surprise gifts and news about exclusive member offers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0hFnOGnq4

H is doing a doctorate in ed and has been telling me a lot about how much her professors emphasize "positionality" these days. I was reading her case study/research paper thing recently and there was this long sort of hemmy-hawy sounding paragraph listing all the ways in which her various privileges and relationships to the students could influence the outcomes and her interpretations of them, and she was like "yeah, this is what we're supposed to do."

that seems pretty reasonable tbh

memetic

ed phds

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/seven_questions_for_thirty_nine_questions_for_white_people_author_naima_lowe/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbHUwM9CQAAPj4g.jpg

hello rich lady in fishnet bodystocking

do u like anggry birds?

Prior to sentencing, a psychologist called by the defense, Dr. G. Dick Miller, testified that Ethan Couch's life could be salvaged with one to two years' treatment and no contact with his parents. ... Miller said Couch's parents gave him "freedoms no young person should have." He called Couch a product of "affluenza," where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/12/12/ethan_couch_affluenza_texas_teen_spared_prison_time_in_deadly_drunk_driving.html

where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.

well, the judge just proved this

check your privilege.... BEFORE IT KILLS

cmon guys this kid has a life full of opportunity ahead of him, you want to destroy that just cos he ran down some schmucks while hopped up and playing his own real life game of GTA IV?

Does sound as if he would have been better off being raised by wolves though. Hopefully the rehabilitation works out and the families of the victims find a way to ruin his parents through the civil courts.

it's like the Rake's Progress where the rake gets off at the end and lives happily ever after

or possibly more like if a quadruple murderer said "soz" and got off

"This kid has been in a system that’s sick," Miller said. "If he goes to jail, that’s just another sick system."

I think that's probably/possibly true. It's also true of most of the other kids ever convicted of crimes, who don't duck 20-year sentences but go on to have their lives ended or ruined by their punishment.

challops i know but i don't think this kid was ever gonna achieve 'great things'

nobody said great things i don't know why i scare-quoted it

possibly i just resent minors for their 'youth privilege' idk

... then again i knew dudes like this during my teenage years *thank u suburban privilege

and i feel like i woulda been totally sketched-out or outraged if one of them had gotten away with sum shit like this?

youth not so legally privileged in the us

Grow up poor- not an excuse or even mitigation go 2 prison 4eva
Grow up rich- oh noes someone think of the childrereren

gets it

I am generally not in favour of sending children to prison for nonviolent crimes unless it can't be avoided. From the sound of it, his parents let him drink and drive from the age of thirteen and raised him to have an almost sociopathic disregard for the consequences of his actions. Therapy seems essential. It should also be the punishment for kids from poor families who are put in the same situation. The fact it is denied to them is more outrageous than the fact it's given to him.

deathrow the parents imo

the kid too

sharivari otm

yeah ShariVari otm

that said

no way this kid isn't going to be a psychopath (if he isn't that already)

you don't kill four people, get away with it, and not end up mentally damaged in some profound way

obviously there's a high chance he'll have some kind of trauma, but there are plenty of ppl who kill ppl without suffering profound mental damage e.g. military

^ sarcasm? i can't tell

no one should ever have to go to jail for anything