Quote: (12-29-2014 01:42 PM)Sonsowey Wrote:
Godfather the idea of "privilege" is not an SJW concept, it is just a concept.
Diplomats have the legal privilege of parking wherever they want, ignoring normal parking laws, without facing any legal consequences.
It should be obvious that the legally defined privileges a diplomat enjoys are very different from the wishy-washy, amorphous sociological blob of nothingness feminists and their ilk refer to when they use the word. In this context, it is very much an SJW concept, as are the ridiculous rules that go along with it (like privilege being invisible to those who have it; I think the diplomat knows most people can't park anywhere like he can).
Trying to quantify sociological "privilege" is fundamentally stupid. Aside from the fact that, in a free society, any individual should be able to treat different groups of people as differently as they choose, nearly every so-called "privilege" is entirely situational, and impossible to weigh against other "privileges". I don't think a working class white man would enjoy too much of that "cis white male privilege" if they lived in a poor black neighbourhood for any length of time. And who's more oppressed, a gay jew or a straight muslim? What about a middle class white man with
unpopular political views?
Quote: (12-29-2014 01:51 PM)Sonsowey Wrote:
But it is undoubtedly true that different social groups have different privileges in different social systems.
Undoubtedly true, and yet seemingly impossible to distinguish from different groups actually
behaving differently, and being treated accordingly. I just don't see how this language is useful for anything other than power grabbing and the victimhood olympics. What does it
describe that I can objectively verify to be true? Something tells me not very much, as human interactions are clearly more complex and nuanced than any sociology major is equipped to describe.