privilege as a meme

lol I referred to a political no-hoper as a "dark horse" once and I'm pretty sure the person who checked me was kidding but point taken.

most people don't seem to really enjoy hurting other people. discovering that the circumstances of your birth, your family, community, society, the fabric of your reality, is actually causing real harm to other human beings, that's a pretty heavy thing to lay on someone. the existence of internalized oppressiveness in someone is generally not much the fault of the person who has it, if we want to be realistic about it. nobody wakes up and says "time to oppress some minorities today!" except sadistic or power-tripping fucks.

truth is, you do have to forgive a racist or sexist most of the time. people aren't as responsible as we'd like to think for how they think, act, and believe, and trying to put more responsibility on them than they have is why you keep. seeing. over. and over. and over. again people getting upset at being called "oppressors".

so you keep seeing the same reaction from people over and over again. don't you think there might be a reason for it? "yeah, racists are evil idiots who MUST BE EDUCATED!!!" no, they're just imperfect people being imperfect people. that's the sad, harsh reality of life. if you keep fighting that reality, you're going to get nowhere.

most people don't seem to really enjoy hurting other people

lol disagree

guess it comes down to what you mean by enjoy

i'd like to believe that at least :S

Everybody is imperfect. Everyone realizes this. That baseline imperfection that we all share doesn't mean that I have to be nice to you if you make one too many "harmless" jokes about my natural rhythm.

And yes, you are totally wrong about ppl not enjoying hurting other ppl.

people def want and try to hurt other people but for the majority of the population enjoy is going too far

you can't change if you don't know you've done wrong. that's why learning is at the top of the list.

Let's not argue about privilege with burt

i stand with burt

i liked what he said

wait is spectrum burt stanton

uh oh

Please erase reference to real life name of ILX poster

News u can use

oh, sorry.

wait i don't think that's true lol

i don't mean to imply that most people make a hobby of hurting other people, or find pleasure in it

just that taking out our daily angers and frustrations on others (possibly real others, possibly imagined others) is a common cathartic response to stress

maybe "find occasional catharsis in hurting other people" is a better way to put it than "enjoy"

fer sure, but then there are plenty actual sadistic psychopaths out there too

which i think is an important distinction

xxpost noodle vague is it maybe a little weird to draw a hard line between foucault and marx? i mean foucault pretty much = marx + sade / nietzsche. point is taken that discourse theory is more properly "post-Marxist," but no Foucault w/out Marx so.

oh lol i typed that like 12 hours ago and just submitted. please ignore the non sequitur and carry on.

i guess at the time i was trying to make a point about engaging in privilege discourse without subscribing to Marxist political beliefs - "Marxian" rather than "Marxist" for want of a more established distinction but sure i take your point.

fact is, not all critics of privilege are critiquing all systems of power and to conflate all struggles to the struggle feels a bit like a privileged, totalizing dick move to me

i like this graphic

http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_node_view_image/goldberg_twitter_otu_img.png

http://www.thenation.com/article/178140/feminisms-toxic-twitter-wars

only the millionth time that article's been written in the past few years

"toxic" is becoming (or has become) a codeword

already did that one Feminist Theory & "Women's Issues" Discussion Thread: All Gender Identities Are Encouraged To Participate

way to infringe on my rights to not real the womens issues thread you fucking entitled fascist

"toxic" is becoming (or has become) a codeword

― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ knows how the game is played

repostphobic

i think one of the reasons i like twitter so much is it makes everyone seem extremely insane

what is it about it that does that

i dont know its just magical maybe

why are that woman's knees talking

not oppressing knees, knees should feel free to air any and all grievances

maybe thats a clue

the format encourages putting your tossed-off, unthought-out commentary on blast

yeah and its good for arguing but not for nuance, its simultaneously very id-y and intellectual which is just a weird combo

http://i.imgur.com/loLW9P8.png

cool

such a sweet ass photograph

way to infringe on my rights to not real the womens issues thread you fucking entitled fascist

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would tell you to stfu but you'd just accuse me of making a tone argument u_u

http://www.theonion.com/articles/white-male-privilege-squandered-on-job-at-best-buy,35835/ discus

ha, the joke doesn't really go any deeper than the headline tho

http://time.com/85933/why-ill-never-apologize-for-my-white-male-privilege/

this is that scumbag whose twitter bio is 'settling the west bank' right?

seriously?
it said he's a freshman

The phrase, handed down by my moral superiors, descends recklessly, like an Obama-sanctioned drone, and aims laser-like at my pinkish-peach complexion, my maleness, and the nerve I displayed in offering an opinion rooted in a personal Weltanschauung.

i hereby nominate this to the terribly writing hall of fame

*terrible, also i nominate myself

Tal Fortgang, a freshman at Princeton University