Everyday Feminism - aka Everyday Autism

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Translation: it doesn't make white people feel guilty enough.

The word "privelege" asks for analysis. Acknowledging privelege means stepping back and thinking "would I be worse off in this situation if I weren't white?"
But we can't have people actually asking questions and thinking about things instead of just swallowing whatever a shrieking white #BLM college student is trying to sell you - obviously, the term (x) privelege has to go.

The -oppressive suffix is the next trend, I'm calling it. White-oppressive. Cisgender-oppressive. It would almost be a refreshing kind of honesty; "You're (white/cis/whatever), and I hate you for it."
 
The problem with the term privalidge as sites like everyday femminism is they're trying to apply an abstract concept to common day to day life. The idea itself isnt that terrible it's fair to say that someone who isnt mentally ill has something over someone who has chronic depression or cannot walk. Likewise their are a series of economic and social trends which mean the average White westerner is genrally speaking a little better of than some 1st wave immigrant. The problem is when you try to apply these principles and a day to day basis they totally fall apart. For examplemy black neighbor (a local councilor) is far better off econimically and politically than me so any construct of privalige totally collapses but every Femminism would insist I have it better than her.
Also they pretty much all have to skirt around the biggest issue which is class since they're all middle class as fuck and have all the perks which come with that regardless of black, disabled or potato-gendered they are.
 
There's no subtlety, no grey areas.

When a person says "It's a privilege to be here" they could mean many things.

It could mean "Boy, I'm lucky to have ended up here", "I'm glad my choices were the right ones" "I know many people don't get here, so I should be mindful and not take it for granted and make the most of it"

To an SJW, all it means is "I'm glad the oppressive white/cis/male power structure gave me all of this for absolutely no effort on my part, just as it should be, the darkies can fuck off"

Every time, all the time, no exceptions.

And that's why they can't cultivate an audience, which is a shame, because if they'd just consider any of those first meanings, they'd be able to engage people and actually may get something done. Asking a successful white person for a charitable donation works better than telling a random white person they're oppressing everyone as they limp home from work wondering how they're ever going to get their student loans paid off.
 
Emperor Julian said:
Also they pretty much all have to skirt around the biggest issue which is class since they're all middle class as fuck and have all the perks which come with that regardless of black, disabled or potato-gendered they are.
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Once you ignore class, the only factor that ultimately matters and overrides the others, any pretense you have to "social justice" is absolute garbage.
 
AnOminous said:
Once you ignore class, the only factor that ultimately matters and overrides the others, any pretense you have to "social justice" is absolute garbage.
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It varies on a day to day basis for example a Gay person in moscow is in for a tough life or historically I don't think it matters how much money you have if your second name Goldberg if the locals have decided and their's a blood livel on and frankly I definatly have something over the 45 year old guy wearing crocks who gets on my bus home from work shouting about how he likes beans every fucking day.
The problem is that it's all they consider and they do specifically ignore class. Classic political failure-oversimplification combined with deliberate blind spot.
 
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I've alluded to it many times, the fact they won't abandon the white privilege argument when confronted with an Appalachian trailer park is all the proof you need that it's just another political ideology, divorced from the real world to the point that anyone who brings up facts, even if just asking for clarification, is vilified as a non-progressive enemy class.
 
TowinKarz said:
anyone who brings up facts, even if just asking for clarification, is vilified as a non-progressive enemy class
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This is the inevitable result of the "not my job to educate you" righteousness. I used to be a lot more open to these kind of people until I kept getting contempt spat at me because I asked questions (you know... I was trying to educate myself). Unfortunately, I have self-respect, which is antithetical to the victimhood movement.
 
The militancy and shaming really puzzle me too, most movements would kill for a receptive audience, and the moment someone seems interested, they get shat on.

It's cliche' to blame modern social media, but I really have to wonder at this point if the hugbox effect means they literally have no idea how discourse even WORKS.
 
TowinKarz said:
The militancy and shaming really puzzle me too, most movements would kill for a receptive audience, and the moment someone seems interested, they get shat on.

It's cliche' to blame modern social media, but I really have to wonder at this point if the hugbox effect means they literally have no idea how discourse even WORKS.
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It's a natural human behavior to surround yourself with people who agree with you. Social media just makes it incredibly easy to do this, and provides the illusion that either no one disagrees with you, or the people who do can be marginalized.
 
ChurchOfGodBear said:
It's a natural human behavior to surround yourself with people who agree with you. Social media just makes it incredibly easy to do this, and provides the illusion that either no one disagrees with you, or the people who do can be marginalized.
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Thank Facebook for figuring out what your beliefs trend toward, and then deliberately relieving you of the inconvenience of ever seeing anything different.
 
TowinKarz said:
The militancy and shaming really puzzle me too, most movements would kill for a receptive audience, and the moment someone seems interested, they get shat on.

It's cliche' to blame modern social media, but I really have to wonder at this point if the hugbox effect means they literally have no idea how discourse even WORKS.
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Some of it is adopting politics as a way to avoid self-implication. "All white people are racist--but not me, I mean those other white people." But yeah, it is a pretty useless brand of politics. It's great at patting yourself on the back for doing nothing and making sure the ones in power will be able to safely ignore you. What it boils down to is using the rhetoric of progressivism for your own self-aggrandizement and to move up in the pecking order of your Twitter clique. Freddie deBoer explains this better than I can.
 
It seems to be naught but laziness and petulance, they want change, but don't want to work for it because, well, the correct course of action should be self-evident..... so only the evil would see it different.... a mindset all too common in people who are well off enough to never have had had to sacrifice anything to get anything.....
 
Wallace said:
Some of it is adopting politics as a way to avoid self-implication. "All white people are racist--but not me, I mean those other white people."
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It's feeding the tiger your neighbor so it won't eat you. The ones who end up enforcing these ridiculous ideas are the people who are terrified of being the next one to attract attention from the witch hunt.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
They site now has a new ism to use: saneism. Which is a descrimination for people with mental problems.
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I was going to point out your spelling error but I don't want to be guilty of grammarism. And I'm just certain that speaking language correctly is a white construct so it also makes me racist.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
It's feeding the tiger your neighbor so it won't eat you. The ones who end up enforcing these ridiculous ideas are the people who are terrified of being the next one to attract attention from the witch hunt.
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Or being the next person voted off of the island in Survivor. There's a big performance art element to it too, so you can show how much better you are than the people who are being censured in the Twitter pillory.
 
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