One of the most frustrating phenomena in the realm of talking about out-group discrimination, whether that be racial or gender or otherwise, is the common appeal to “some”. “Why do you say ‘white people’ have privilege? Not every white person has racial issues! Shouldn’t you say some white people?” “Why do you say that men objectify …
Category Archive: privilege
Dec 15 2011
Born on third base
If you haven’t done so already, you should read this piece by Greg Laden, as well as this one by Greta Christina, by way of intro to this piece. One of the foundational myths of conservatism, or even of libertarianism, is that the private sector will remain competitive by selecting the best of the best …
Dec 14 2011
Okay, now drop what you’re doing and go read THIS
Maybe I should give up the blogging game and just re-direct everyone’s attention to what other, better writers are doing. Ta-Nehisi Coates, a brilliant writer on matters racial and historical gives us a different grasp on the same story as last night’s ridiculousness. In this piece, which is definitely worth reading in its entirety, he …
Dec 14 2011
Everyone drop what you’re doing and go read this
Greg Laden absolutely FRICASSEES an article that, if privilege was a liquid, would be dripping with it: Much of this may be true. Certainly, libraries often do have computers and kids can have access to those computers. And so on and so forth. But, again, we need a reality check. There are three things you …
Dec 12 2011
Politically INcorrect? As though that was a good thing…
Over the past couple of months I have become more active on Twitter. While at first I used it primarily as a secondary RSS feed, with automatic updates for these blog posts, after a while I began to use it as a way of getting politics updates and rapid news on the Arab Spring uprisings. …
Nov 22 2011
Africentric school approved in Toronto
There are periodically – not often, mind you, but occasionally – points in race conversation when I am tempted to throw up my hands and say “you’re white, and you don’t get it! Just accept that I am right!” Oftentimes race issues require so much unpacking – privilege, history, demographics, sociology, the list goes on …
Nov 07 2011
Why are you hitting yourself? Part 7: Summary
This is part 7 of an ongoing discussion of a paper by Jost, Banaji and Nosek discussing System Justification Theory. Read Part 1. Read Part 2. Read Part 3. Read Part 4. Read Part 5. Read Part 6. So on Thursday I finished up with the last sections of the paper, but I didn’t get to do the …
Nov 03 2011
Why are you hitting yourself? Part 6: SJT writ large
This is part 5 of an ongoing discussion of a paper by Jost, Banaji and Nosek discussing System Justification Theory. Read Part 1. Read Part 2. Read Part 3. Read Part 4. Read Part 5. We left off exploring the consequences of conflicts between how we see ourselves in context of a group, and of how we see …
Nov 03 2011
Why are you hitting yourself? Part 5: this post is entitled
This is part 5 of an ongoing discussion of a paper by Jost, Banaji and Nosek discussing System Justification Theory. Read Part 1. Read Part 2. Read Part 3. Read Part 4. We left off last week discussing the relationship between where one stands in the power dynamic, and how we see those at the top. If we …
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