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...
Posted on 03/09/2006 2:27:13 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there are most likely a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of while privilege that was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
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.
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After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of unacknowledged privilege, I understood that much of their oppressiveness was unconscious. Then I remembered the frequent charges from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why we are just seen as oppressive, even when we don't see ourselves that way.
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She needs to be told to "get over yourself, the rest of us have learned to ignore you"
Someone needs to hook up this whiney loser with the crazy NYT broad who's turned her house into a giant hippie dumpster...
LOL, shouldn't have read that while eating.
We don't want to rise to their level. We want to tear them down to our level.
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.
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.
As a white person, there's no built-in excuse for failure...
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. :-)
Sorry about that ;-)
Seriously, doesn't this thing read like a parody? I swear it's not!
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...
"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.
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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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.
No, it's not a parody. I know people who think like that.
Silly bitch.
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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