http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
Here's the Peggy McIntosh article about white privilege. It wasn't until I'd read that* that I felt on firmer ground responding to the inevitable "Well, jokes about white people don't bother ME" argument. As for the whole "people within the group telling the joke" thing, that's another battle in the same war.
I've had to try to explain this to teenage boys a LOT. At least grown women are likely to be able to consider the idea of privilege, whereas to these boys the very words "white privilege" are like a dog whistle -- they can see that something's happening but are totally unable to hear a sound.
(*Read and, actually, did a little activity where we got to stand in a line according to our degree of privilege, which I've gotten to do TWICE now -- NOT an ideal teaching tool, in case you're wondering. But writing a paper on some other form of privilege was kind of interesting. I wrote one on female privilege, and another on ability privilege.)
Okay, now I'm just babbling to keep from leaving.
"No. And I also don't like pathetic little ploys to get out of taking responsibility for one's own words."
PERFECT. Now, if only I can retrieve that next time I need it.
Urgh. I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad.
YAY. Thank you for links.
Urgh. I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad.
Is the treatment a cream or a suppository?
Urgh. I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad.
So you also had a momentary flash of Sparky running off to celebrate the holidays with Dean Winchester? No, just me?
Yeah.(Go Fay! Remind me to stay on your good side, girlfriend.)
Re: Patterson. Yeah, imo, it's okay to make fun of him. It's not okay to make him a shambling fool. He's the most powerful crip in America...have some respect.(Although, I have to admit I'm fascinated with him because of all the TMI, not really his role-modeliness. We're chock-a-block with Credits to Our People, but CTOP that used to be cheating cokeheads?) Dude, that's a story, and I'm not ashamed to enjoy it.
Yeah, that sketch made me pretty uncomfortable, since it didn't seem to be drawing on anything I'm aware of about his character or reputation so much as the pure fact of his blindness.
The Blagojevich one, OTOH, I could watch a million times.
(Oh! In our secret santa at work today my gift was wrapped in Grinch paper with little green Blagojevich heads pasted on over the grinch's face. Hee.)
Yeah, that sketch made me pretty uncomfortable, since it didn't seem to be drawing on anything I'm aware of about his character or reputation so much as the pure fact of his blindness.
EXACTLY. I read some article where "SNL always picks on politicians blah blah blah" and I'm just... um... were you at that party with Meara? 'Cause that's just not on.
And there is SO much in his character and reputation. The coke, the cheating... and if you MUST have fun with his blindness here's one for you: Sucker memorizes EVERYTHING. Every speech he gives. Every set of "notes" he has for a meeting. Mock him being Super Blind Guy with no need of mere eyesight.
That's what made me so mad, actually. That man works HARD to do shit (and do it well) that most people take for granted. He would
N E V E R
hold a chart upside-down.
