Originally posted by NemeBro
Bush probably is smarter than most of you though, to be fair.
Janus isn't a fan of conservatives/republicans so he'll no doubt be quick to dismiss it. I don't blame him, I'd do the same with Obama in this situation.
I'm sure Bush is smarter than us, just like Obama is. But if we don't like a particular person/party, we'll call them stupid under the guise of objectivity.
I can watch this shit for hours lol. Awesome band awesome song, gay dance but the dude has balls
Originally posted by psmith81992
YouTube videoI can watch this shit for hours lol. Awesome band awesome song, gay dance but the dude has balls
Reported for crime against humanity and my eyeballs.
Dave, what's your thoughts on this?
Originally posted by NemeBroYouTube video
Bush probably is smarter than most of you though, to be fair.
Nah, objectively he's a retard and I'm way smarter than him. 👆
Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Reported for crime against humanity and my eyeballs.Dave, what's your thoughts on this?
Wow. Some liberals are retarded. If I understand this article correctly, the student did not do anything to earn disdain from his peers other than being privileged? And this is without him acting like a douche or doing something to draw such disdain? You have a similar sentiment I think but I also want to believe it's not toward all the "privileged", but the douchebags.
Check your privilege out of the door? Your views are shaped by where you come from? Sounds like a good way to shy away from personal responsibility, while at the same time completing negating personal success. I don't see any "sense of self entitlement or self privileged" and this particular part:
"Nothing in the essay is a new or shocking expression of white privilege or the astounding sense of entitlement and self-regard shared by white racists," she writes.
Shows how incredibly stupid the far left can be. I doubt anyone with half a brain, even liberal and on this forum, shares the same opinion.
Originally posted by psmith81992
Wow. Some liberals are retarded. If I understand this article correctly, the student did not do anything to earn disdain from his peers other than being privileged? And this is without him acting like a douche or doing something to draw such disdain? You have a similar sentiment I think but I also want to believe it's not toward all the "privileged", but the douchebags.Check your privilege out of the door? Your views are shaped by where you come from? Sounds like a good way to shy away from personal responsibility, while at the same time completing negating personal success. I don't see any "sense of self entitlement or self privileged" and this particular part:
Ah, no, you do not get the article right.
'Check your privilege' is normally used when someone is basically going, "I managed this, so it should be just as easy for people outside my group to, so why are they complaining about it? They should just shut up and do as well as I do," or otherwise show an ignorance for the differences in opportunities different people have. Overlooking that, hey, just because you had to work to get where you got, doesn't mean someone else even had the *opportunity* to get where you got with the same amount of work.
I mean, an example of privilege is white felons and black non-felons have similar hiring rate.
This was done by going to the same companies with the same resumes, with only names and the person involved changed (and the black applicants actually being high-scoring college students), just a few years ago ('08). The results in hiring were that drastic.
To quote *the article just linked*:
Checking your privilege doesn't mean anyone is asking you to say "I only have things because I am part of privileged groups". It does mean someone is asking you to say "By position of a characteristic I was born with, I have been helped, or at least not hurt, more than others without this characteristic". It does not mean anyone wants you to apologize for it; it does mean someone is asking for an acknowledgement of the implications of it.
Seriously, I find the idea that white people / male people / people from certain backgrounds (a redneck certainly has a disadvantage to someone who simply comes from a 'higher-class' background) etc, don't have entirely passive, 'gets fewer disadvantages in ways that are not blatantly obvious/auto wins at life, but are very easily measured to be there and to have an effect,' advantages to be silly. The stereotypes society paints different groups with are very clearly qualitatively different.
And I find the defensive attitude of people who treat 'acknowledging people get treated differently' as a personal offense to be, not only missing the point, but a pretty dumb reaction to it too.