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Conservative magazine The Washington Examiner unveils The Privilege Pyramid
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The whole thing is fucked up, but to put rape victims as the most privileged 'group' is really fucking disgusting and shameful.
When, in the past, have social issues ever been solved by being silent except when amongst your peers? Some of you need to learn from history and see how people actually got shit done.
I've seen the, ' you're playing into their trap' thing way too much in these threads.
Ah, yes, the unfair privilege of *checks notes*
Sex-trafficking victims.
Like, I'm all for shitting on identity politics memelords, but at which point do you decide to shed your humanity like a goddamned snakeperson?
Sex-trafficking victims.
Like, I'm all for shitting on identity politics memelords, but at which point do you decide to shed your humanity like a goddamned snakeperson?
Must be nice to have the privilege of quoting that at my fragile white ego.
This is one of the most vile, revolting things I've ever seen published in a relatively mainstream publication. I'm quite certain being sexually abused didn't provide me any fucking privileges. This is what rape culture looks like.
Seems to have become the new 'safe' dismissal in light of rule changes, in that it seems too stupid to be posted as an actual solution or thought. Have noticed it being thrown out more since the Bennett and Shapiro threads. Mind you, in the latter thread 10% of the poll saw actual value in having racists, homophobes etc. coming to speak in educational places so who knows.
Either way it reads as being profoundly moronic whenever it pops up.
So, I tick all of those boxes at the bottom except "wealthy" (I think I'm middle class) and I was even raised Protestant (I'm non-practicting now).
If someone said, "Hey, would you like to trade all your problems for the problems of a gay, black, transexual, Muslim refugee?" I'd run my ass in the other direction until I collapsed from exhaustion.
Mediocre conservative white guys love the idea of "meritocracy" until they actually need to compete. If they lose any kind of fair competition, they'll scream about immigrants taking their jobs to fill quotas or how black athletes are some kind of genetic supermen bred by slave owners to be superior athletes (I wish I was making that up). It's disgusting and shameful.
If someone said, "Hey, would you like to trade all your problems for the problems of a gay, black, transexual, Muslim refugee?" I'd run my ass in the other direction until I collapsed from exhaustion.
Mediocre conservative white guys love the idea of "meritocracy" until they actually need to compete. If they lose any kind of fair competition, they'll scream about immigrants taking their jobs to fill quotas or how black athletes are some kind of genetic supermen bred by slave owners to be superior athletes (I wish I was making that up). It's disgusting and shameful.
The Washington Examiner isn't what I'd call mainstream at all. They're a DC rag, worse than the NY Post and the NY Post is very not good.
That doesn't make me feel any better, tbh. NY Post is trash, this piece of shit paper is clearly trash, but people still read and internalize this garbage.
From what I've seen, the Examiner is dominated by the sorts of conservatives who spent all of the 2016 primary talking about how much the hate Trump and think he's dangerous, but as soon as he won brainwashed themselves into being complete Trump defender, and the thing those people always fucking bring up as their proof that the liberals are out to get us all is Brett Kavanaugh being accused of rape. They're fucking traumatized that a guy who went to the right schools could have his career threatened by being called a rapist. So yeah, I totally see how they warped their minds to the point of "rape victims are a dark cabal ruling society at the expense of good, rich, WASPy frat boys". Fucking nuts.
Because we're the subject of both bigotry against LGBTQIA+ and erasure within said community. Pressure to 'pick a side' and being told you don't belong at Pride.
Man, I'm legitimately shocked they haven't. I'm just saying that's how bad the Examiner is.
I don't seem to be able to find legal immigrant on this pyramid.
FUCKING WEIRD THAT THEY'D FORGET THAT THAT'S AN ACTUAL THING.
FUCKING WEIRD THAT THEY'D FORGET THAT THAT'S AN ACTUAL THING.
Defeating Hitler gave him what he wanted basically. Should've kept silent.
I think they're testing the waters still. Maybe have it pop up in an Op-Ed about the N-word "not being racist" or something along those lines. Play the "It was just an op ed that wanted to start a discussion! Just asking questions!" card as people react.
Im so tired of hearing about all these rape victims and sex trafficking victims! Won't someone think about the middle class white men for once??
Imagine actually thinking this... Someone needs to post that Oppression falling circles diagram .gif
Imagine actually thinking this... Someone needs to post that Oppression falling circles diagram .gif
Reading through his Twitter, he's obviously in it for the "lib tears" reaction. Hope he fades into a jaded white male who ultimately becomes a pariah in society in this lovely mixing pot. This is the death cry of the oppressor.
I mean, if the author wants to take a shortcut, I'm sure they could find someone to drug and violently rape them, skip straight to the top of the pyramid.
(Holy shit what is wrong with these people)
(Holy shit what is wrong with these people)
Is that one supposed to be "gluten-sensitive"? What's going on there? "Pull up your bootstraps and eat this food that makes you feel terrible".
This, and in general people have a more negative view of bisexuality than homosexuality. This pyramid seems to be arranged to reflect those who the conservative cis white straight male views as more threatening as "more privileged."
This is the kind of shit the republican members of my extended family eat up. The very fact that as man I don't have to keep my head on a swivel around people of the opposite gender when walking alone in the evening and as a white man I have been programmed from a young age to be friendly to police as they will believe me is the pretty evident that I do sit pretty much at the top of the "privilege pyramid" in reality.
That article is like a glimpse into bizarro world. I'm white, male, hetero, cis, college educated...supposedly the bottom of the pyramid and yet I've never felt oppressed by any of these groups supposedly "above" me. Based on my identity I'm the audience for this drivel. But it's transparent, nasty bullshit. In a way it's comforting because it's not going to convert anyone to the conservative cause. Purely preaching to the choir.
Dude, I fucking have to live in this country. They are terrifying.
