{"id":31742,"date":"2017-02-27T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31742"},"modified":"2017-02-18T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T14:37:59","slug":"qotd-check-your-privilege-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/qotd-check-your-privilege-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Check your privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

So who am I betraying by not conforming to the baneful Marxist stereotype of who I should be? Oh, right, the SJWs. That\u2019s okay, I\u2019m fine betraying them. Or at least fighting them. Hard to betray what you never belonged to. And, you know, most of them, even those with exotic names and claiming exotic identities (rolls eyes) are pasty-assed white people with real privilege as defined by having money and having attended the best universities and hanging out with all the \u201cright\u201d people and having the \u201cright\u201d (left) opinions. If they knew the meaning of the word privilege, they\u2019d see it all over themselves.<\/p>\n

But there are more egregious definitions of privilege. You see \u201ccheck your privilege\u201d is a tool of would-be elite whites to keep competition and challengers in check, while riding to glory by defining themselves as champions of the downtrodden. (It\u2019s an old game, in place at least since the French revolution, but it\u2019s the only one they have. Remember they lack both empathy and imagination. And since they have more or less overtaken the press, no one on the street realizes how old and tired this \u201cclever\u201d gambit is.)<\/p>\n

However, when that hits academia, it becomes something even more poisonous.<\/p>\n

Recently I heard someone talk about a difficult (as in very poor, with two working, Asian immigrant parents barely scrabbling to get by) childhood and say that as they always had books and were pushed to succeed they had \u201ctons of white privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n

This person was a graduate of an ivy league school. So, of course, he had internalized the definitions of \u201cwhite privilege\u201d as meaning \u201cdoing that which brings success.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is sort of a self-defeating thing. If you want to have a voice in politics, you avoid \u201cwhite privilege\u201d which means if you want to have a voice in politics, you must not display those traits which logically lead to success in the culture. (You see how this is a tool of the white overclass to avoid competition from anyone else.)<\/p>\n

This poisonous, totally unwarranted view of privilege serves only one purpose: to keep everyone else floundering and mute while these not-very-competent, credentialed, correctly-connected, politics-as-a-social good, lacking in empathy, totally devoid of imagination, largely white would-be-aristos lord it over us.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hoyt, “The Privilege Of Not Caring”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-05-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So who am I betraying by not conforming to the baneful Marxist stereotype of who I should be? Oh, right, the SJWs. That\u2019s okay, I\u2019m fine betraying them. Or at least fighting them. Hard to betray what you never belonged to. And, you know, most of them, even those with exotic names and claiming exotic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[912,997,764],"class_list":["post-31742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-privilege","tag-socialjustice","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8fY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31745,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions\/31745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}