Posted on 05/11/2015 2:16:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The notion of checking one’s privilege — white, male, cisgendered, and otherwise — has caught on to the point of triggering the inevitable backlash. And while the right has always scoffed at the notion as being divisive and unhelpful, even when they agree with the idea of class war (sort of), the left is beginning to find it all a bit heckle-worthy too. Over at the heady and increasingly influential Jacobin, Connor Kilpatrick condemns the idea of privilege-checking as a deviation from issues of real power:
Right now Americans are inundated with a variety of liberal politics that try to turn what should be political reckonings against the truly powerful into an epidemic of guilt and complicity in which a huge portion — or, sometimes, nearly all of us — are to blame. That’s not only not true — it’s politically ineffective.
If conservatives’ focus on abolishing the capital gains tax and poking fun at the postal service undermines its populist appeal — which I believe it does — privilege-checking does the same for the progressive left. How? By rendering Joe Blow a fatal blow: condemnation for being part of the majority, and merely by existing. At the New Republic, Phoebe Maltz Bovy seconds Kilpatrick by highlighting a bizarre manifestation of the “white privilege” meme, namely that of elite white parents instructing their school children in the evils of…well, themselves. Not that they can’t be redeemed, of course. There is light at the end of the tunnel (though putting things in terms of light and dark is probably “problematic”). From a NYT profile of the Friends Seminary school near Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood:.......
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I hope you’re copy/pasting instead of typing that out each time. ;p
“Even progressives are getting tired of privilege-checking”
TOO FLIPPING BAD.
You ‘progressives’ did this to us, so now I’m going to enjoy watching you CHOKE ON IT.
Of course!
I got an awesome pic of Brady I’ll email to you.
Another mature adult in the educational system.
The idea that these white kids’ privilege is part and parcel of the same “dominance” enjoyed by their poor brethren in northern Idaho is laughable. But then that may be the point of this white privilege business, to distinguish Idaho whites from their Manhattan counterparts.
Writing from northern Idaho, I'd be very grateful for any distinction between myself and - one can hardly use the word "counterpart" without assuming a commonality deeper than the color of one's skin - my Manhattan fellow citizens. If they are.
This whole ideological con game has grown tedious. It is little more than pure bigotry dressed up in pseudopsychological jargon, with a set of premises that grow steadily more outlandish and never questioned. From such luminaries - is the word "luminary" racist? - from black luminaries such as Cornel West we have a weird reformulation of Original Sin and a steady assurance that magic is at work here, that White Privilege is all-pervasive but invisible to those who are not permanently addicted to chronic guilt-tripping. To call this nonsense is to dignify it. It is an intellectual fad on the order of Pet Rocks, and the only lasting wonder is that it was ever taken seriously to begin with.
Time, I think, to draw the curtain and behold the pathetic, ignorant, bigoted, racist simulacrum of a man behind it and to laugh him into the puddle of fetid goo more than which he never was. The mantra will continue to be chanted, to be sure - if you can't think, you can always chant, pound drums, spew slogans as if they were diamonds of wisdom within the dung. We see the dung. There are no diamonds.
Saturday Melissa Harris Perry went on a rant about how whites created those poor crime ridden areas in the city, going back 60 years ago :
1) Segregation laws(60 years ago )
2) Red lining for home loans for blacks, white parents have ‘wealth’ to pass on to kids, blacks don't
3) White flight, whites took that privileged $$$ with them leaving those black areas with nothing
Also Sunday I listened a bit to the local Rush replay, he quoted some British sociologist saying that kids that get bedtime stories read to them have an ‘unfair advantage’ over other kids.
“..“Dayof Absence play.”...”
That would be, like, a “Day Without Baltimore” or “Day Without Ferguson”... or “Day Without [ insert city of choice ]”.
Tiresome.
How any American - white or black - would sit through this hogwash without telling the umm, “teacher”, to GFY is beyond me.
And I’m being polite here.
It's your fault for leaving, White devils! It's not like you left because of the crime or anything.
Racialist proselytizing.
Whites leaving crime ridden areas with high taxes is ‘racism’.
Non-whites fleeing same areas is ‘integration’.
See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots. See Detroit, post 1967 riots.
Also Sunday I listened a bit to the local Rush replay, he quoted some British sociologist saying that kids that get bedtime stories read to them have an ‘unfair advantage’ over other kids. “
Even if the bedtime stories are about the Crips & Bloods ?
” Whites leaving crime ridden areas with high taxes is ‘racism’.
Non-whites fleeing same areas is ‘integration’. “
About time you figured this out, SOL. A wee bit slow on the draw, no ?
I think Rush must have been talking about this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286663/posts?page=37#37
Sick
“thumbs up”
LOL!!
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