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| Peggy McIntosh
Posted on 03/09/2006 2:27:13 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
If this is serious and not a parody of stupid liberal rot, then this person is simply so self-obsessed that she stands no chance of being taken seriously by anyone with a brain.
She needs to be told to "get over yourself, the rest of us have learned to ignore you"
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:11:32 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Someone needs to hook up this whiney loser with the crazy NYT broad who's turned her house into a giant hippie dumpster...
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:13:05 PM PST
by
pabianice
(contact ebay??)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
...pretty much ashamed of being alive LOL, shouldn't have read that while eating.
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:13:53 PM PST
by
kerryusama04
(The Bill of Rights is not occupation specific.)
To: andyk
Do you know what this sentence means?We don't want to rise to their level. We want to tear them down to our level.
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:14:04 PM PST
by
null and void
(I nominate Sept 11th: "National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval". - Mr. Rational, paraphrased)
To: muir_redwoods
McIntosh has been pretty successful in getting this and her "queer is normal" SEED teaching system out and into schools over the past decade or two.
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:15:53 PM PST
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live. 4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.
Just why is it that black neighborhoods aren't "comfortable" for many blacks? Or, for that matter, many whites? When blacks get money, they move out of black neighborhoods. When whites get money they stay in white neighborhoods. That's a factor this woman isn't dealing with -- or seeing.
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:16:21 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(MSM coverage of Iraq War is like a sports section written by women who hate sports.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
43. If I have low credibility as a leader I can be sure that my race is not the problem. As a white person, there's no built-in excuse for failure...
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:20:41 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(MSM coverage of Iraq War is like a sports section written by women who hate sports.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Shame on you for encouraging people to waste their time this way. I clicked, and got as far as:
35. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
So, OK, her co-workers will be pretty sure she got the job because of her gender. And they'd probably be right. She sure didn't get it because of her brain power or common sense. :-)
To: speekinout
Sorry about that ;-)
Seriously, doesn't this thing read like a parody? I swear it's not!
To: governsleastgovernsbest

i guess this genius would have b!tched about cave-mens privilege of killing the beast and fighting for the lives of the family/tribe instead of sitting home gathering and tending her young...
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:54:39 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege."
Yeah, well - *I* think that feminist fantasists are carefully taught to blame every inequity and iniquity on white, heterosexual, anglo-saxon, protestant males.
There, now my theories have just as much validation as hers. When do I get my check from the *whatever*-studies program?
Now a general rant about this mindset:
Seriously, how is this any different from the fundamentalists these people always complain about? (Christian fundamentalists, not Muslim fundamentalists- It would never do to complain about Muslims...because Mennonites are a damn sight more dangerous than Sunnis - because they drive slow, horse-drawn buggies. Or something). To wit; it only takes faith in what you believe to make it true -
"You're priviliged."
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are, you just can't see it."
"How do you know I can't see priviledge?"
"Because you don't admit you see that you're privileged."
"WTF?"
ad infinitum...
It's this bizarre Kafkaesque "thinking" that keeps these people in business. It would be funny if so much of our tax dollars didn't go to funding it.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
One wonders if Peggy includes among male priveleges their shorter lifespan; higher rate of suicide, alcoholism, violent death, and incarceration; and higher morbidity from almost every disease--in fact, the same symptoms found in any oppressed minority. Men are a minority, of course; one wonders if Peggy knows that.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:18:08 PM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Do not refer to Leftists as "Liberals." There's nothing liberal about these people.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Seriously, doesn't this thing read like a parody? I swear it's not!
I believe you. She smokes from the same dime bag as many of my neighbors.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:24:12 PM PST
by
posterchild
(Living a capitalist dream in a socialist 'paradise.')
To: andyk
It means her parents wasted a lot of money sending her to college. Apparently she means men may say they will work to improve women's status, but they are not willing to lower their own status.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:24:44 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: governsleastgovernsbest


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posted on
03/09/2006 4:30:08 PM PST
by
Fintan
(Did you really think I could post such insightful replies if I actually read the article???)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle. I was ready to give this a "college sophomore says something stupid" comment. Then I suspected it was an Onion article, but went to the Wellesley web site, and there it is. It's not even coherent writing, and this ditz is a PHD.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:35:30 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Seriously, doesn't this thing read like a parody? I swear it's not!No, it's not a parody. I know people who think like that.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
03/09/2006 5:25:25 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The left always assumes that all aspects of life are zero-sum games: if someone has something it is *because* someone else does not. They understand neither capitalism, which makes this notion false in the material realm, nor grace, which makes it false in the spiritual. The left thinks wealth is stolen, not created, and if they imagine a next-world, do so in terms of karma, never grace.
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posted on
03/09/2006 5:28:02 PM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
In other words, she seems advocate taking specific actions to decrease men's status!
She sure does. Or, at the very least, she's implying that the quality of privilege is a zero-sum game.
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:57:01 PM PST
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
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