privilege as a meme

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+

well played chimp

Is "social justice warrior" primarily a sincere self-label or primarily a mocking label? It's pretty awful.

mocking

quickly gaining traction in the right wing trollscape

ime it was originally a mocking label that has evolved into a reclaimed self-label

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=social%20justice%20warrior

mocking

it's our generation's "cause heads"

i just figured out it's quite old now (urban dictionary from 2011) but for whatever reason it's popped up on my radar a lot more recently

ime it was originally a mocking label that has evolved into a reclaimed self-label

― Mordy, Monday, October 6, 2014 8:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this, actually

have they completely reclaimed it yet?

because i still see it used mockingly, a lot

i mean i dont think its possible to completely eradicate mockery through reclamation

it was used sparingly back in 09/10 (earliest i saw it anyway) as a sincere self-descriptor

the "SJW" abbreviation was mocking from the beginning

and tbh any reclamation is still 100% snark/sarcasm like the image above, anyone who uses it as a serious descriptor is #notyourshield

roxy probably otm but it's a step in the right direction imo

ultimately it'll be of limited value/relevance to detractors and nobody will rly use it any more

idk tho

redditors and 4channers and... breitbart.com?? now use the term as a serious non-outright-mocking classification and seem to be under the impression that people still sincerely self-identify as SJW so i'm not sure what good "reclamation" will do outside of it being funny