Posted on 08/01/2017 10:53:46 AM PDT by Fred Hayek
Yep! I’m a genius! I’m a man! I’m white! I’m heterosexual! I’m rich! I’m handsome! I’m healthy! And I’m glad!
So was Ho Chi Minh and Enver Hoxha.
Oh, I've already heard that one. That's how they justify all the refugees coming here.
"He's Smart." :-) "He makes us go. We will be powerful."
Pretty close to the current state of affairs, IMO.
Doesn’t one have to do fairly well on the GRE to be accepted into a graduate program?
I know the perfect solution to the problem of cognitive privilege: let the cognitively challenged have their own country. Let them all leave our racist, homophobic and cognitivist country so that they are no longer oppressed by us.
Oh, and the name of the country: We can call it Dumbphuckistan.
And the Ayatollah!
Anybody above the absolute lowest common denominator dunce is considered privileged and must be punished.
The leftists are doing their level best to race this country to the bottom and collapse any semblance of greatness.
“Yep! I’m a genius! I’m a man! I’m white! I’m heterosexual! I’m rich! I’m handsome! I’m healthy! And I’m glad!”
I am going to starting calling this “It’s F**king Awesome To Be Me Privilege.”
(Mr. Williams) . . . “Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.” - Winston Churchill
In the comments at the Iowa paper, in a thread of responses to a comment implying that “work and effort” are also part of success, one response to a nasty response was “You’ll have to forgive him, he lacks cognitive privilege.”
Also, couldn’t verify it, but the author, Dan Williams, was said to be a Soc major, along with comments to the effect that his SJW job prospects in the era of Trump, aren’t looking too good.
Pol Pot would be proud!
and damned be those of us who are motivationally privileged. (e.g. willing to get off our butts and work for a living)
Kurt Vonnegut sure got this one right!
Survival of the Unfit
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any “pressure” on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Many of us are well aware of this “Survival of the Fittest” theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species’ least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.
We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the same laws of nature that affect all of God’s creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.
Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species are allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, and then the population collapses.
In the past, when these collapses occurred within human populations, they’ve been referred to as a “Malthusian Collapse.” Thomas Malthus, a Nineteenth Century Economist, thought these collapses were caused simply because past civilizations had reached a point where human populations could no longer produce sufficient food supplies to feed themselves, but he never pinned down the exact reason for the food shortages.
I now think some of these collapses of past human civilizations may have occurred when the unproductive weak/lazy/stupid greatly outnumbered the strong/productive/intelligent of the population. In other words, the majority of the population became too lazy to perform the work necessary to provide for themselves and what was left of the strong/productive/intelligent refused to continue to do it for them.
These collapses have occurred at frequent intervals throughout human history, and Western Civilization is, in my humble opinion, currently on the cusp of one of these collapses.
DJ Taylor
What subject(s) are they studying?
Only the privileged people have clothes.
This idiot should attend class nude as a protest against that privilege!
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