that is amazing and I just stole it for Twitter
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
uh ohcould you not use that link? you're welcome to have the img just don't link it to my flickr page pls!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah just changed that
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
thanks!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
also pls enter your Pure Privilege Member Number for surprise gifts and news about exclusive member offers
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0hFnOGnq4
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 2 December 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
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."
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 2 December 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
that seems pretty reasonable tbh
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 December 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
memetic
― Phoebe (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
ed phds
― Mordy , Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/seven_questions_for_thirty_nine_questions_for_white_people_author_naima_lowe/
― Mordy , Friday, 6 December 2013 04:55 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbHUwM9CQAAPj4g.jpg
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 09:40 (ten years ago) link
hello rich lady in fishnet bodystocking
― New York City Garden(?) (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:23 (ten years ago) link
do u like anggry birds?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
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
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.
well, the judge just proved this
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 13 December 2013 06:00 (ten years ago) link
check your privilege.... BEFORE IT KILLS
― mitch hedberg and kevin hart (sleepingbag), Friday, 13 December 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
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?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 13 December 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Friday, 13 December 2013 10:19 (ten years ago) link
it's like the Rake's Progress where the rake gets off at the end and lives happily ever after
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 11:05 (ten years ago) link
or possibly more like if a quadruple murderer said "soz" and got off
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
challops i know but i don't think this kid was ever gonna achieve 'great things'
― confused subconscious U2 association (bernard snowy), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
nobody said great things i don't know why i scare-quoted it
possibly i just resent minors for their 'youth privilege' idk
― confused subconscious U2 association (bernard snowy), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
... 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?
― confused subconscious U2 association (bernard snowy), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
youth not so legally privileged in the us
― ogmor, Friday, 13 December 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
Grow up poor- not an excuse or even mitigation go 2 prison 4evaGrow up rich- oh noes someone think of the childrereren
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
gets it
― wee knights of the round table (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 December 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Friday, 13 December 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
deathrow the parents imo
― kel's vintage port (electricsound), Friday, 13 December 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
the kid too
― am0n, Friday, 13 December 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
sharivari otm
― k3vin k., Friday, 13 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 13 December 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Friday, 13 December 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
^ sarcasm? i can't tell
― am0n, Friday, 13 December 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
no one should ever have to go to jail for anything
― sent from my butt (harbl), Saturday, 14 December 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link
I don't even know if this is the right thread for this (because I'm not sure I properly understand the meaning/purpose of this thread) or if it should be on the race thread, but really:
https://medium.com/get-bullish/a5e5f4e9132f
"Life Hacking" = brutal assertion of race, class, etc privilege.
― Branwell Bell, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 11:11 (ten years ago) link
"check ur privilege" lol
― dude-icrous (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 11:47 (ten years ago) link
Great story about the post office. That guy sounds like a real pice of work. Actually feel a book or documentary on the incident would be worth making but I suppose an article will have to do for now.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
How to tell when someone has not read beyond the first three paragraphs of a piece. *sees screen name* Never mind, what was I expecting.
― Branwell Bell, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
That's so good, I like that article! My littlest brother is totally that guy and I know other ones too even without the wealth inequality of the author.
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah i have friends like that who think (1) that they have unlocked the secret to day-to-day life and (2) when they do it it is scandalizingly charming in the same way a rude joke
― caek, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
The most polite phrasing of their worldview is "It can't hurt to ask."
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
i hate the degradation of the term 'lifehack' into 'oblivious dickhead behavior'
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, reading the article, I just thought "this is my brother" (this is people I went to school with, people I've worked with - and therefore, probably in ways I'm not even aware of it, *myself*!) all over. That whole "Oh, but bending the rules, just this once, just for little me" (and the false humility often gets trotted out as often as the entitlement) followed in quick succession by "ha ha, I can't believe everyone doesn't do this! The FULES! I am so clever and smart and funny and this is why I have nice things."
So my reaction is totally a wince, but also a recognition.
― The Manics: Very Welsh, Much Working Class, So cialist (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
I do however think you should use the heck out of what ppl are willing to do for you when it's punching up. Like most things.
― Horreur! What are this disassociated lumps of (in orbit), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
punching up?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
directing your taking-advantage-of upward, rather than downward
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
the powerful rather than etc
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link