privilege as a meme

Don't think these gamergate ppl are being offhanded

I'm trying to find it again but searches are full with gamergate and Brianna Wu hits.

Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

Maybe it was this one: http://skepchick.org/2013/10/why-i-dont-just-go-to-the-cops/

They told me there wasn’t much they could do because he apparently lived in another state. They offered to take down a report, but admitted that nothing would come of it unless someone one day put a bullet in my brain, at which point they’d have a pretty good lead.

Oh and this one: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/

When Time journalist Catherine Mayer reported the bomb threat lodged against her, the officers she spoke to—who thought usernames were secret codes and didn’t seem to know what an IP address was—advised her to unplug. “Not one of the officers I’ve encountered uses Twitter or understands why anyone would wish to do so,” she later wrote. “The officers were unanimous in advising me to take a break from Twitter, assuming, as many people do, that Twitter is at best a time-wasting narcotic.”

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― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:38 (3 hours ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmiv_gWiKHo

In my experience, it's hard enough to get the police to take threats seriously when it's an actual partner threatening to take you out as well in his next suicide attempt, let alone something from a stranger in that ~crazy, not-real-life, little-understood internet thing that you could just avoid if you really wanted to not get killed~.

I thought this piece was pretty good on the difference between "online smack talk" from the memetic "go die in a fire" type stuff to the more considered purposeful angry insults; and what we talk about when we talk about "death threats":

http://secretgamergirl.tumblr.com/post/100182276170/the-routine-harassment-of-women-in-male-dominated

For example, I’m going to talk a lot about receiving death threats. An awful lot of people think they routinely receive death threats. I’ve seen it said pretty commonly that “everyone gets death threats on the internet all the time.” No. Those aren’t what I mean when I say death threats. You’re thinking of things like these, right?

"Drop dead!" "I hope you choke on a pretzel and die!" "If I ever get the chance, I am going to chop off your head and crap down the stump of your neck!"

Those aren’t death threats as I’m using the term. That’s all just smack talk. This is a death threat.

"Your name is Jane Smith. Your husband John leaves for work every day at 8 o’clock, from your white house with the crappy yellow curtains at 123 Road St. I have a long-handled sledgehammer in the back seat of my car, and when you come back from buying groceries tomorrow, I’m going to use it to bash in your skull, then use the other end to…"

(I don't agree with everything in the piece, because even smack-talk has lines (gendered and racially barbed smack talk, for example, is no longer 'just' smack talk, but we've discussed that to the death) but I think that makes a point.)

Mayer is a journalist - in media jobs, you're expected to use Twitter - it doesn't mean you have to Tweet a lot, but in a lot of jobs you'll be considered media illiterate if you don't know what kinds of things are on it.

The idea of cops using Twitter is disturbing.

Police are getting a little more Twitter saavy--at least in the case of the recent Philadelphia hate crime when there was a cop taking tips on Twitter that led to arrests.

educational privilege is causing a lot of problems at my workplace

Ayn Rand tells us that in a truly capitalist society, educational privilege would not exist. btw, the devil made me say that.

any sentence that starts "ayn rand tells us..." will not end well

you are a teacher yeh LL?

is 'educational privilege' like of the going-to-college-heard-of-moby-dick vs not, raised-in-a-home-where-parents-talked-a-lot-and-read-around-kids vs not variety?

yeah
and the resulting assumption that because the educated person knows something that "everyone" knows it

like how to write a formal research paper
guess what
not everyone knows that from birth

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-going-to-trust-societys-determination-that-he,37486/

you are a teacher yeh LL?

is 'educational privilege' like of the going-to-college-heard-of-moby-dick vs not, raised-in-a-home-where-parents-talked-a-lot-and-read-around-kids vs not variety?

what now

idgi?

I have no memory of posting that! Is it possible I butt-texted ilx? I am sorry!

i am choosing to read your butt's communique as "no fuckin lie"

if your butt was giving itself detailed instructions on how to manage this acrobatic feat it could stand for 'now flex leg.'

next fucking level

iirc

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u rc xp

butt-to-leg texts would certainly be next fucking level

http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/image/105804091140

didn't work?..

http://i58.tinypic.com/2e2qo1i.png

Catchy.

lonely girl just thinking baout #privilege

i've read that image like 4 times now and i still can't make sense of it

#privilege = -(understanding)*(violence + history of intentions), where (violence + history of intentions) ~ < (what you do understand to think)

she's thinking "what the fuck do the words floating in mid-air beside me even mean?"

guys i think the image maybe possibly just might be intentionally confusing as a goof

I lol'd but I can't help but wonder if that isn't the product of some anti-feminist clowning a random internet comment

guys i think the image maybe possibly just might be intentionally confusing as a goof

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, December 22, 2014 9:18 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I lol'd but I can't help but wonder if that isn't the product of some anti-feminist clowning a random internet comment

― man alive, Monday, December 22, 2014 9:24 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

prolly

denial stage

maybe it is written by a trained iphone autocomplete

That said, isn't privilege something you have, as opposed to something you do "not understanding"?

That's part of the confusion.

privilege is not understanding having

#CheckYourNotDumbPrivilege

guys they aren't about more than what you understand to think, come on

image is def a goof -- that's what the liartown dude does.

NOW I believe you. Craphound. This one was comparatively subtle i.e. I'm making excuses.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/99-1-percent-income-inequality-class/

I can't say I've been overly impressed by most of the output of the Jacobin that I've read so far, but I basically agree with that editorial piece. The reactionary right constantly and happily uses arguments based on the gradations of social privilege as a divide and conquer strategy. The classic case would be pitting poor southern whites against all southern blacks.

Where it goes wrong is not acknowledging that the unconscious assumption of privilege by certain cohorts within progressive politics is a source of friction within the movement and such friction does tend to interfere with achieving political cohesion. Acknowledging this would have been easy, as would have been the obvious recommendation: pretend to be more unified than you are, and keep your 'eyes on the prize' because achieving the shared goals is worth paying that price. Instead, he doesn't face the fact that some progressives will pay a higher price than others to get where we all want to go, and they always will until these 'side' issues are effectively addressed.

http://socialistworker.org/2015/04/15/privilege-and-the-working-class

Really interesting! Otm especially on questions of class being eliminated from liberal discourse, and "privilege" being largely defined by and working for the ruling class.

Like the idea of privileges being hard-won victories by the working class that have been branded not as basic worker's rights we all share but pieces of capitalist pie we must fight over

haven't read this yet but is this going to be more 'class is more important than race' nonesense I've already read linked from jacobin