Posted on 07/31/2017 3:04:41 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The University of Iowa’s student newspaper has announced the discovery of a special privilege which intelligent people acquire as an accident of birth. This new privilege — called “cognitive privilege” — functions in essentially the same way as white privilege.
The Daily Iowan revealed the discovery of this new privilege earlier this week.
Garden-variety white privilege “is an important topic that deserves a public discussion,” the op-ed on “cognitive privilege” explains, but it is also “prudent to at least mention the wider concept contained therein: that of privilege itself.”
Privilege in general is “the receipt of certain benefits wholly through accident of birth and it is “undeniable that privilege itself is a reality,” the student newspaper explains.
As with skin color and much else, Daily Iowan author Dan Williams argues, people have no control over how smart they are. Life is a huge cosmic lottery full of winners and losers.
Cognitive privilege is one of “many kinds of privilege besides white privilege.”
Also, Williams declares, robots will wipe out manual labor jobs but will somehow not affect jobs available to members of a special cognitive elite.
“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.”
Williams believes that America will be better able to discuss “white privilege” and the “temperature-rising topic of racial privilege” if it is able to admit the existence of “cognitive privilege.”
Don’t worry, though. “The purpose” here “is not to instill a sort of Catholic guilt in someone’s psyche.” “The purpose of pointing out someone’s privilege is to remind them of the infinite number of experiences that are possible and the very large number of experiences that are actual that they know very little about.” (Williams does not say how he has obtained his special knowledge in this regard.)
“Feelings of guilt are natural when coming to consciousness of one’s place in the scheme of things — and noticing that one has been conferred benefits through sheer accident — but guilt is an impediment to social-justice action, not a motivator (guilt slides easily into resentment),” the author writes.
“We can debate whether ‘whiteness’ is a sort of ‘master privilege’ that overrules all others.”
The concept of “white privilege” was popularized in academic circles by a 1987 essay entitled “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” The author was Peggy McIntosh, an inconsequential white feminist
Oh well. So now they are willing to admit that IQ is a herited trait
Back to The Bell Curve
“cognitive privilege”: Liberals have now accurately defined what they are not.
Obviously the University of Iowa doesn’t have much cognitive privilege.
OK...I see...
Responsibility, study, hard work have nothing at all to do with success...You were either born with success or not...
Mandatory lobotomies to follow, until everyone is an IQ of 100 or below.
MAGA!
I was born smart. My brother was born tenacious and highly competitive. Guess who has gone further in the business world? These little snowflakes don’t want to realize that hard work and tenacity can take you a lot further than skin color and inherited intelligence.
IQ has nothing to do with the problem.
Black Urban culture ran away from the church and turned the lot into a hideous demon spectacle.
They did that to themselves, all by themselves.
“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.”
Some people are just better equipped. It’s not an accident... Their relatives, upstream, made better choices.
“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.”
Some people are just better equipped. It’s not an accident... Their relatives, upstream, made better choices.
Only stupid people would make up “cognitive privilege.” Because they have to make up an excuse as to why they are stupid.
There was a “Right” and “Left” component to the Civil Rights Movement.
The “Right” part said that black people should be treated the same as whites and be held to the same standards as white people.
The “Left” part said, “Who are you to decide what the standards are?”
And the Left won out.
Isn’t this sort of like the University admitting it is totally incapable of fulfilling that which is the purpose of any University to begin with?
Now, I'm going to introduce a new one.
MEDIA PRIVILEGE
Our society affords an unfair (and unwarranted) degree of monetary benefits, unfair avenues for opinion expression and under-examined opinion veracity, and unfair power over the masses by people in the news and entertainment media.
If stupid people were in charge of important things we’d still be trying to communicate with two empty cans and a string.
It is my Supreme Cognitive Privilege to know, beyond any doubt,
that people who believe in White Privilege are stupid.
Really stupid!
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