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College Paper Calls Out "Cognitive Privilege" of Smart People
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| 7/30/2017
| Danile Greenfiled
Posted on 08/01/2017 10:53:46 AM PDT by Fred Hayek
Do you have any idea how stupid this is?
Then you may have "cognitive privilege"? As the intersectional left continues to kill satire through its very existence, we advance toward the bright future of idiocracy.
Here's the Daily Iowan. The college paper of the University of Iowa. And where better to denounce "cognitive privilege" than a college paper.
There are many kinds of privilege besides white privilege: cognitive privilege, for example. We now know that intelligence is not something we have significant control over but is something we are born with. We are living in a society in which success is increasingly linked to ones intelligence. ... Thus, the accident of having been born smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did absolutely nothing to earn. Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.
Dan Williams, the author, of this piece, is justly not proud.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: college; greenfield; idiocracy; pc
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To: cgbg
One more modern culture just sent them on boats to Australia. :-)
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That culture also sent them to America (the word colonies is plural).
Unfortunately, they then proceeded to do all they could to bring the remainder back down below the mean and, just in case that failed, they imported vast numbers from their other colonies.
To: TalonDJ
I am going to starting calling this Its F**king Awesome To Be Me Privilege.
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posted on
08/01/2017 12:44:55 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
To: Fred Hayek
I swear colleges and government institutions employ the absolute worst people in society.
Teachers that teach nothing but anti-logic.
Employees the work hard at taking away every last civil right.
Look to schools and govt for the worst of the worst.
To: Fred Hayek
Part of intelligence is genetic. Part is whether your parents talked to you, and if they were above ignorant morons, part of it is how hard you study.
None of that is privilege. None of it is justification for berating Whitey and accusing him of racism and taking his money and replacing him with ignorant morons who slice necks.
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posted on
08/01/2017 12:56:23 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
To: DJ Taylor
She should have gotten a job in a university.
People have called in on their first day and nothing happens.
At one olace, a female co-irker didn’t show one morning.
About 11 or so, we heard that she called. Her excuse was that she dreamed she called.
65
posted on
08/01/2017 12:57:07 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: I want the USA back
None of that is privilege. None of it is justification for berating Whitey and accusing him of racism and taking his money and replacing him with ignorant morons who slice necks. Oh, that's another one, "Nuclear Family Privilege".
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posted on
08/01/2017 12:59:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DJ Taylor
She should have gotten a job in a university.
People have called in on their first day and nothing happens.
At one olace, a female co-irker didn’t show one morning.
About 11 or so, we heard that she called. Her excuse was that she dreamed she called.
67
posted on
08/01/2017 1:01:07 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: cgbg
One more modern culture just sent them on boats to Australia. :-) We seem to send all of ours to university.
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posted on
08/01/2017 1:07:51 PM PDT
by
usurper
To: Fred Hayek
How bouts dunk-dee-ball pribbblige?
Wants me sum dat yo!
To: DJ Taylor
Please tell me that’s a spoof!
To: Fred Hayek
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posted on
08/01/2017 1:44:25 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
To: TalonDJ
Hey I love it!
And I left out a few: I speak three languages! Play the piano! Have a gorgeous wife! Do martial arts! Ride my horses! Dance like Gene Kelly! Live on my investments! And have an outrageous IQ!
IT'S-AWSOME-TO-BE-ME!
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posted on
08/01/2017 1:47:44 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
To: Fred Hayek
To: Savage Beast
IT'S-AWSOME-TO-BE-ME!And your spelling is stuning, too.
74
posted on
08/01/2017 2:29:23 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("The less free you are, the more you are obliged to applaud.")
To: Professional Engineer
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posted on
08/01/2017 2:30:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: SMARTY
I work with grad students..
When I went back to grad school as a 40+ student, I was far older than the students, of course, and older than all but one of my professors.
They were all very smart, but ignorant of the world and lacking common sense, professors included. When they looked at me quizzically over some obvious insight they hadn't seen, I answered them w/ the old Spanish expression, "El diablo es sabio no por ser intelligente, por ser viejo."
("The devil is wise not because he is smart but because he is old.").
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posted on
08/01/2017 3:14:11 PM PDT
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: Fred Hayek
College Paper Calls Out "Cognitive Privilege" of Smart People...yeah, intelligent people get his sort of thing a lot - usually from people who can't admit to themselves that they don't measure up.....
To: Fred Hayek
Thus, the accident of having been born smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did absolutely nothing to earn."You didn't earn your brain"
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:18:22 PM PDT
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: Tax-chick
"And your spelling is stuning, too."And your spelling is both awsome and stuning.
79
posted on
08/01/2017 6:33:09 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
To: DJ Taylor
80
posted on
08/01/2017 6:40:43 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
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