privilege as a meme

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

ahem it means, roughly, 'valley of progress' auf deutsch

“I was in shock because it said ‘checking my privilege,’ and I concluded after reading that he had been ultimately unsuccessful in examining his own privilege,” said Briana Payton

lol

haha

awesome

the generational piggybacking is pretty weak also -- grandson of survivors/son of cuny-system grad is really not the equivalent of a disadvantage in the contemporary world.

i have heard 'check your privilege' once in a year of teaching ivy league seminars and the idea that there is too much introspection on this in the student body is lol

what i don't get is if he's sincere why doesn't he have access to a smart princeton friend who could have pointed out he doesn't even understand the concept of privilege that is being used against him, did he just fire that puppy off to 'the tory' w/o double-checking or what

i have heard 'check your privilege' once in a year of teaching ivy league seminars and the idea that there is too much introspection on this in the student body is lol

― caek, Sunday, May 4, 2014 11:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah dude is basically a prince to the pea of privilege

http://thoughtcatalog.com/anonymous/2014/04/im-not-allowed-to-have-feelings-or-opinions-because-im-white/

Tagged Censorship, Culture & Art, race, Racism, Reverse Racism, SJW, The Internet, Tumblr, White Privilege

the internet is a joy some days

Is this a thread about rich kids????

at least the author of the thought catalog piece was savvy enough to publish it anonymously. tal took his half-baked skepticisim about structural inequality to the national stage.

What if instead of a bunch of white people writing articles about white privilege they just published more diverse writers?

lol who, the tory or thought catalog?

what i don't get is if he's sincere why doesn't he have access to a smart princeton friend who could have pointed out he doesn't even understand the concept of privilege that is being used against him, did he just fire that puppy off to 'the tory' w/o double-checking or what

mistaking "hey this discussion might be more productive if you just took a quick quiet second to think about history" for "APOLOGIZE TO ME ABOUT THE NATIVE AMERICANS RIGHT NOW MOTHERFUCKER" is pretty textbook whiteboy tho; i'm sure he has a whole support network that thinks similarly.

sorry i guess that's his failure to understand the concept of checking. there are other problems too.

He checked back as far as his grandfather. So he's ignored the entire history of the world before 1900.

Also, yeah, at the end he says he has check his privilege, but not once did he explain how he got into Princeton, how he is paying for his education, and how he got his writing published by Time magazine.

Oh wait it's his inherited "legacy". He was destined to just have all this stuff given to him.

He checked back as far as his grandfather. So he's ignored the entire history of the world before 1900.

not to defend his essay but pretty sure the jews have had it rough since before 1900

http://gawker.com/conservative-money-front-is-behind-princetons-white-pr-1571826318

So has insisting/suggesting that someone check their privilege been successful since people started doing it? Are there testimonies where privileged people talk about how they looked into it, realised there was stuff they weren't thinking about when they gave opinions on an issue?

Annoyingly, I can't remember who said it, but I'm fairly sure there's a body of wisdom literature with many aphorisms along the lines of 'If you would be wise, first establish what you don't know', etc. Is telling someone to check their privilege a class-conscious version of this idea?

I ask this because I was recently told to check my privilege

Are there any articles on this written by POC? All I've seen so far is white ppl talking white privilege.

(and while I've often nodded along when reading articles saying that ppl should check their privilege but ... wow, actually being told to do so does not produce the desired effect, at least for me, this time)

Who told you this and what is the context?

In what context were you told to check yr priv? If you feel comfortable opening up about that.

Only irl conversation I've had about this has been w 2 other white people, one of whom was just drunkenly boasting his awareness of his privilege.

i think it's reputed only to work in 'safe spaces'

like twitter