privilege as a meme

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

I am imagining David Spade in PCU

http://i.imgur.com/CLQefpS.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/nyregion/at-princeton-privilege-is-a-commonplace-b-misunderstood-or-c-frowned-upon.html?_r=0

All the attention he has received since then has been somewhat surprising, Mr. Fortgang said, adding that he was not always happy with the kind of people who have rallied around him.

“I am sure there are some really racist white supremacists who point to me as a hero on the college campus,” he said. “That is not me. I don’t have a racist bone in my body.”

lol

http://i.imgur.com/OSng9gj.png

Ungh everything about this is perfect

College is about the only time for anyone is going to tell this guy to "check his privilege" unless he, like, decides to attend occupy meetings or actively seeks out leftist bloggers. So it's especially whiny and shortsighted. His checkbox multicultural lit class may involve a lot of privilege checking, but his privilege will be toasted rather than checked for most of the rest of his life.

Tal Fortgang is a sweet name.

true