privilege as a meme

it's "check" as in "check yourself" which is ironic because

https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/464499054635139072

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/white-privilege

This caller is really something.

interview with the woman who coined the term is a must-read especially for anyone who (still) whinges about "check your privilege" being a thing

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/05/the-woman-who-coined-the-term-white-privilege.html

ESPECIALLY what she says about "niceness", goddamn that needs to be hammered home

But what I believe is that everybody has a combination of unearned advantage and unearned disadvantage in life. Whiteness is just one of the many variables that one can look at, starting with, for example, one’s place in the birth order, or your body type, or your athletic abilities, or your relationship to written and spoken words, or your parents’ places of origin, or your parents’ relationship to education and to English, or what is projected onto your religious or ethnic background. We’re all put ahead and behind by the circumstances of our birth. We all have a combination of both. And it changes minute by minute, depending on where we are, who we’re seeing, or what we’re required to do.

At SEED, thinking about privilege is deeply personal group work. We do an exercise where everybody reads out loud from something they’ve written based on Jamaica Kincaid’s story called “Girl,” which ran in The New Yorker in the seventies. In “Girl,” Kincaid lists voices in her head from her early childhood, telling her how to be a girl. Everybody reads either their boy piece or their girl piece, and, listening, you get a systemic view of varieties of gender conditioning. One very sad thing—very major to me—is that almost all the men who are now over forty read “Boys don’t cry,” or something like, “Put the damn worm on the damn hook.” And that’s a lie—a huge social lie that makes men of that age have to act tougher than they feel. It’s a tragedy for the entire world, and it’s inflicted on boys; they’re not guilty of it. Usually the boy’s crying, or about to cry, when he’s told boys don’t. This is wreckage to the psyche.

i think mcintosh would be horrified to see how ppl like lex have abused this concept as a stick to hit ppl w/ that he doesn't like or disagrees w/. what she's arguing for is a fundamentally compassionate position towards every human being and an examination of privilege that takes place on a personal, intimate level and includes a wide array of different advantages + disadvantages. i don't think she'd ever flippantly tell someone to check their privilege. "The key thing is to let people testify to their own experience."

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/13/students_at_harvards_kennedy_school_will_now_be_required_to_check_their_privilege/

hope everyone dies

ur in luck

hope everyone dies

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when orthodox jewish males visit the graveyard they are supposed to tuck their tzitzit fringes into their pants bc you don't want the dead to see them + get jealous that the living can do mitzvot and the dead cannot. it's just about being sensitive to your being alive privilege.

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Mitch-Albom-great-death-Meetville-Quotes-53184.jpg

he went to high school down the block from me

^ the nebby jewish version of name-dropping

is that different from regular name dropping

http://andrea366.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/the-problem-with-privilege-by-andrea-smith/

http://i61.tinypic.com/j6n9ed.png

But the killer wasn't an 100% white male, he was a half-Asian (Malaysian Chinese) male with a sense of internalized racial inferiority, I hate when people do this, it's as bad as when Vampire Weekend were getting accused of pushing the white colonial agenda (which they were, duh) because they were clueless WASP dudes, when actually they are Jewish and Persian, etc.

Like this killer was <i>aspiring</i> to be a Violent White Male Misogynist Asshole (what he'd probably call an "alpha male") as much as he actually was one.

This rings true: "his anger is about his failure to be able to access all the markers of white male heterosexual middle-class privilege". But she blurs it with "heterosexual white male entitlement to a world that grants all one’s wishes". Privilege is something you're born with and have whether or not you acknowledge it - every straight white man has three kinds of privilege. It's not negative per se. Entitlement is something more obnoxious and even dangerous. So I think entitlement, not privilege, is what she should have used here: "I’m also saying that white male privilege might be considered a mental health issue, because it allows these dudes to move through the world believing that their happiness, pleasure and well-being matters more than the death and suffering of others."

I think the distinction between "privilege" (what society grants you by default, which can change radically per individual depending on the current circumstances but has clear overarching trends) and "entitlement" (what you feel you deserve, which can be heavily but not exclusively influenced by privilege) is useful in so much that it takes the actively annoying component of people's rejection of the privilege concept away and casts it as an active behavior that people can more easily identify and understand. It's primarily useful because apparently people are morons who can't or refuse to understand how defaults work in a society and how being closer to "default" can limit your perspective.

The most glaring and obvious default privilege that one can cite is how the cops treat you. The default quality is easily isolated in that situation, so people can see it.

@RichardDawkins: Learned a useful new phrase this week: Social Justice Warrior. SJWs can't forgive Shakespeare for having the temerity to be white and male.

so mad @ shakespeare rn u guys

the bard delusion

what's awesome with Dawkins is i'm not even sure if he was a reactionary cunt until kids started fucking with him on the internet

he just didnt know he was

http://i.imgur.com/51oR0Yq.png

lolwut

I mean Dawkins being a trashboi isn't news but what the fuck even is that last post

someone should call china and make sure they don't do that

don't think dawkins actually said that

http://i.imgur.com/AGjqt8J.png

lolz

i am deceased

picture is perfect there

he's like that Dr who guy idk which one

hahaha

ayo thats my boy sam

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/27/its_not_just_the_south_and_fox_news_liberals_have_a_white_privilege_problem_too/

Race is the house of many rooms, built by white people for “the world and all those who dwell therein” (Psalms 24:1).

i had no idea psalms was about white privilege.

Clockwise, from top left: Joy Behar, Alec Baldwin, Stephen Colbert, Maureen Dowd, Jimmy Kimmel, Susan Sarandon, Ryan Seacrest, Bill Maher

since these people weren't mentioned in the article, do we just assume they all said something dumb recently?

alec baldwin caught a tennis ball

social justice warriors as a meme

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/By-E6moCYAAo_6W.jpg

poll

cleric plz

no dwarf?!

that's a race not a class *tuts furiously*

maybe j. hasn't played since 1st edition

maybe you are all just false and i am kvlt

i'm just saying you can't just conflate race and class

a+