A Day In The Life Of The Victim Olympiad
A tweet -- of mine -- in response to Chloe Valdary's. She's really worth following on Twitter, by the way.
"Privilege" notion is so ugly & anti-individualistic. I'm atheist - but I was raised Jewish. Thing I appreciate about Judaism is that there's no "original sin." You're to be taken as an individual, on your own actions. Let's ditch "original sin" of intersectionality--"privilege" https://t.co/QZgdF60vIu
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) July 3, 2018
Her whole thread on this is here.








Black people are the most oppressed people in the U.S. Just ask any black activist. Never mind that they commit more hate crimes per capita than any other demographic, and are only fourth place when it comes to being victimized by hate crimes, behind gays, Jews and Muslims.
Patrick at July 3, 2018 4:18 AM
""Privilege" notion is so ugly & anti-individualistic."
This is incomplete. It's also FALSE, a term from the glossary of virtue-signallers who will never accomplish anything.
A privilege is earned, not magically granted - like the praise bestowed upon the snowflake for merely breathing on its own - and the word is perverted to demean those of a class which has actually achieved things, i.e., anyone not of the whiner's clique.
Radwaste at July 3, 2018 5:57 AM
Why would it be individualistic? "Privilege" is a control mechanism. And it's easier to control people when you divide them into groups and then get them to control themselves by putting the groups into competition with the other groups; or set them all against the designated hate-group.
Clothe your hate in something morally righteous and you aren't spewing venom, you're fighting the good fight. It isn't racism to hate whites (or Jews, or Tutsis), it's justified.
It takes time to get a this kind of emotional vitriol stirred up. And the ones who started it didn't always intend it to go this far. But that kind of mass emotional manipulation will lead to violence; it always does.
Conan the Grammarian at July 3, 2018 9:50 AM
A privilege is earned, not magically granted
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Well, yes and no. Parents "magically" have the right to boss their kids around in the most unreasonable ways, and until the kid can convince a caring adult that the parent is mentally ill or is engaging in dangerous/neglectful behavior, chances are no one is going to intervene.
See here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/well/no-one-helped-my-mentally-ill-mother-or-me.html
lenona at July 5, 2018 5:41 PM
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