HOW PRIVILEGED ARE YOU?

serious laugh out load @ "if you can't add, -30"

ladies and gentlemen, our target audience

I believe this image originated from 4chan

i am without category it seems

110 I think? Obv this is just for laughs but smh at earning 1m/year awarding the same amount of privilege as living in the Netherlands or being Jewish. MAKES YOU THINK though.

On the other thread I said I was 0, but actually I'm -20. Which is complete bullshit.

Seriously, so many problems with this, I don't even know where to begin...

is it really from 4chan? it seems like a perfect example of tumblr intellectualism to me

i guess there's no Otherkin -500 category

45 but yeah this is bullshit

oh crap I left out the 150-200

Also lolled @ "social autism (freebee)"

105, at least, wasn't sure if I have an attractive face by their standards or if "engineer" includes software development

i guess there's no Otherkin -500 category

― Mordy, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was looking for this, I confess.

only thing worse than living in the middle east is blindness

is it really from 4chan? it seems like a perfect example of tumblr intellectualism to me

― Mordy, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:17 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I think so, it's subtly-trolly

Someone please turn this into a board game

bad speeling

160. i'll just round it up

China- Rural/shop

Kind of feel better believing it's from 4chan. Sadly it could so easily be real.

it's actually the last page of the US tax forms for 2013

has anyone ever done a social history of the internet social activism movement? like when did this kind of language start to appear on tumblr blogs next to twilight gifs?

Friday or Saterday night

Being tall is apparently my only redeeming factor, woohoo! 20.

country- bankrupt peripheral european
race- white, historically oppressed
overweight, ugly face, can't fuckin believe they didn't allow for GSOH
male, but a long way from alpha
Five ten, but terrible posture
Straight but ws james franco
Atheist, bonus minus points for lol irish
Ablebodied, but clumsy and left foot needs a lot of work
CIS no quibbles here tbf
Gf & I combined = middle, less rent and lol dublin expenses lol gtfo
No option for public clerical officer, gonna say lol

I'm like 115 / 125 depending if you think I'm hawt.

xxxp particularly, did this language migrate directly from academic discourses? if so, how did we go from butler to otherkin (obv 'From Butler to Otherkin' will be the name of the tumblr critical theory collection i'm planning on editing), and if not, where did it come from?

subtly-trolly doesn't being 4chan to mind for me.

105, at least, wasn't sure if "engineer" includes software development

It kind of has to - I have occasional kneejerks of "but but geek = -100" but really we are doing very well compared to nearly everyone else.

120, I counted Canada as being equivalent to "Europe - meh" and I decided I had an attractive face.

Being tall is apparently my only redeeming factor, woohoo! 20.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:24 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol ikr? I was like FUCK YEAH I"M TALL GIMMIE DEM POINTS.

oh hold up I was basing things on my parents' income and not my own household income - working my ass off all these years gets me to a 55! Voted in wrong category, alas.

high five, E! UP HIGH.

I forgot the disability bit so I'm actually like 140/150.

oh god

Andrew, you're a software developer! I knew there was some commonality here

I'm guessing some of this moved over when Livejournal split apart?

yeah, i assume most of this stuff comes by way of livejournal but that still doesn't explain how it got to livejournal

presumably it's posted by people

105 or 125 depending on whether I'm supposed to lose fat points and ugly points, or just one or the other.

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/xxxlibris/1313826/21061/21061_1000.jpg

argh, huge image, sorry.

Kind of feel better believing it's from 4chan. Sadly it could so easily be real.

― emil.y, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:20 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well it's not any more or less "real" regardless of what website or message board it originated on, since it's obv something jokey and not academic/governmental/etc

checkyourprivilege.gov

I made this and I made it using science

ftr

argh, huge image, sorry.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:31 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

god, stop showing off your privilege

the obama administration is going to use this to distribute aid if he wins

I am already falsifying paperwork to claim I am a blind jewish trans person

How the shit do I know how attractive I am?

So, uh, I'm the least privileged person here, apparently? Excellent news!

well it's not any more or less "real" regardless of what website or message board it originated on, since it's obv something jokey and not academic/governmental/etc

― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I meant 'real' as in 'genuinely well-intentioned but unutterably stupid' - which honestly is very possible.

Or amn't?

kinda too stunned by 'jewish -- +25' to even begin to consider how fucked up the rest of this might be

no way, being jewish is awesome

I consider it...a privilege

lol

it's not as cool being straight as this thing says, it's kinda boring

ditto 'able-bodied'

able-bodied straight people are the worst

getting all j g ballard itt

Are asexuals really more privileged than gays? How many TV shows feature asexual characters?

SNL

"privilege" = the new original sin

http://lhote.blogspot.com/2013/02/bullshit-social-climber-faux-antiracism.html

Nothing could be more indicative of the state of American social liberalism than the divide between the graduate classes I take and the undergraduate classes I teach. The students in the graduate classes are endlessly careful to check their privilege. That's good. Privilege is real, it's better to think about it than not to. But the obsessive focus on privilege checking is the epitome of how people misunderstand social change. People of the world, I implore you: what is privilege checking doing for anyone? Is anyone in the world going to materially benefit from someone in some grad seminar checking their privilege? Has all the privilege checking in every cultural studies class in the history of creation ever put clothes on someone's back or food in their belly? Ever stopped a single cop from beating a black man senseless? Don't mistake your purification rituals for progress, please.

Meanwhile, my undergrads are mostly good kids. But they are absolutely repulsed by what they take organized social liberalism to be. I talk about politics with them and they seem generally to be on the side of the angels. But you mention the word feminism, and they recoil. It's visceral. And the young women are even worse than the men. They aren't racist, mostly. But in large majorities, they are skeptical to outright hostile towards organized antiracism. Why? In part, because of ignorance and privilege and apathy. But in part, because they have grown into a world where social liberals are more interested in demonstrating their superiority over them than in educating them. Because they perceive, correctly, that white antiracism is dominated by people who are more interested in being right than in doing right.

just waiting on the fine detail from croke park II before i recheck my privilege, psyched

oh look another douchebag in grad school blogging about it

a very inspiring and educational voice

I went to grad school and all I got was this lousy blog

loll

Wait, do people actually talk about privilege checking in an academic context?

Or is it just a blog thing

just a blog thing

wtf do you think grad students do all day?

it's not something that bright grad students do

thinking about your innate societal advantages every time you speak must take ages. would be simpler to just not be bigoted and go about your day like a normal person

in an academic context they check it with a red pen

social liberals are more interested in demonstrating their superiority over them than in educating them

what a choice

has this been linked yet

http://myprivilege.tumblr.com/

People of the world, I implore you: what is privilege checking doing for anyone? Is anyone in the world going to materially benefit from someone in some grad seminar checking their privilege? Has all the privilege checking in every cultural studies class in the history of creation ever put clothes on someone's back or food in their belly? Ever stopped a single cop from beating a black man senseless? Don't mistake your purification rituals for progress, please.

This is suffering from the category error it is accusing the grad students of making.

be that as it may "don't mistake your purification rituals for progress" is some top shelf rhetoric

i'm just gonna spend a minute trying to work out if 'top shelf' means over there what it does over here

at zuccotti park (and presumably other camps tho idk) there was 'progressive stack' which meant that at the big meeting underrepresented minorities were supposed to get pushed ahead of others in the speaking line. this was annouced at the beginning of every meeting. when ows started getting bigger and it took 2 or even 3 rounds of shouting for everyone to hear something, it would seriously take like 20 minutes to explain to everybody how underrepresented minorities were gonna get priority in speaking queue. this seriously basically never affected anything in the actual dialogue that took place - which was mostly housekeeping stuff regardless - but it took a really, really long time.

holy shit you pushed minorities into doing the housekeeping?

be that as it may "don't mistake your purification rituals for progress" is some top shelf rhetoric

Freddie is a student of rhetoric, nice to see his hard work paying off.

Don't believe me? Read the Tweets that aren't written by a small group of self-selected fellow travelers. Read the comments on websites that are writing about this controversy.

d00d just discovered racism on the internet huh

what is the point of freddies blog post

i wouldve thought an old school Marxist like him would be into the 21st century maoist self criticism of privilege checking

My parents are affluent but I am poor. They would have been classified as poor at my age though I think

privilege checking can be conveniently elided with liberalism. 21st century Mao/Stalin apologists will jump through whatever hoops they have to to decry liberalism some more

Little red hoop

'i committed the bourgeois practice of privilege checking' -- me at my next jiantao sesh

xp I went from A to Z, I took out every liberal in town, and as I held them, all I did was talk about how lame they are and how anti-racism is pointless as long as NASCAR message boards have racists on them

a common refrain at the local struggle sessions was the amount of privilege our class enemies refused to check. how can we ever quantify the advantages with which the sub-kulak starts?

if only lenin had access to the how privileged are you quiz

don't we all long for the privilege of an all paid vacation to the magadan gulag?

Magadan laundries

lmao at "scientist -25", a+ trolling of clowns like http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2012/jan/26/1

How come jews get a score and the irish dont, ridic

better in central midfield

if you try to get the lowest score you can come up with the latest social justice youtube star.

black intersex gay transgender blind muslim whose homeless in the middle east. prob have to make it United States, though.

don't forget scientist

poor homeless scientists

Labless tbf