I will think my response to you!
Posted on 07/31/2017 3:04:41 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The University of Iowa’s student newspaper has announced the discovery of a special privilege which intelligent people acquire as an accident of birth. This new privilege — called “cognitive privilege” — functions in essentially the same way as white privilege.
The Daily Iowan revealed the discovery of this new privilege earlier this week.
Garden-variety white privilege “is an important topic that deserves a public discussion,” the op-ed on “cognitive privilege” explains, but it is also “prudent to at least mention the wider concept contained therein: that of privilege itself.”
Privilege in general is “the receipt of certain benefits wholly through accident of birth and it is “undeniable that privilege itself is a reality,” the student newspaper explains.
As with skin color and much else, Daily Iowan author Dan Williams argues, people have no control over how smart they are. Life is a huge cosmic lottery full of winners and losers.
Cognitive privilege is one of “many kinds of privilege besides white privilege.”
Also, Williams declares, robots will wipe out manual labor jobs but will somehow not affect jobs available to members of a special cognitive elite.
“Thus, the accident of having been born smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did absolutely nothing to earn. Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.”
Williams believes that America will be better able to discuss “white privilege” and the “temperature-rising topic of racial privilege” if it is able to admit the existence of “cognitive privilege.”
Don’t worry, though. “The purpose” here “is not to instill a sort of Catholic guilt in someone’s psyche.” “The purpose of pointing out someone’s privilege is to remind them of the infinite number of experiences that are possible and the very large number of experiences that are actual that they know very little about.” (Williams does not say how he has obtained his special knowledge in this regard.)
“Feelings of guilt are natural when coming to consciousness of one’s place in the scheme of things — and noticing that one has been conferred benefits through sheer accident — but guilt is an impediment to social-justice action, not a motivator (guilt slides easily into resentment),” the author writes.
“We can debate whether ‘whiteness’ is a sort of ‘master privilege’ that overrules all others.”
The concept of “white privilege” was popularized in academic circles by a 1987 essay entitled “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” The author was Peggy McIntosh, an inconsequential white feminist
Solomon prayed to God, who blessed him with wisdom.
The ignorant people I know pretty well know they are ignorant and do nothing to try to overcome it.
In defense against charges that Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell was “mediocre”, U.S. Senator Roman Hruska, a Nebraska Republican, stated:
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”
Where do the smart people who are complete idiots fit in?
Daily Iowan, and specifically ‘editor’ Dan Williams are examples of idiocy privilege.
“The meek shall inherit the earth”
If you truly understand that verse then you know what I am saying.
By the way, hey leftists...I thought you were all about darwinism and the belief in the fittest shall survive?
Now we’re getting into Pol Pot territory. Anyone who wore eyeglasses was an intellectual, therefore a class enemy. In Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge they were to be executed.
Wow!! I guess I’m just ‘lucky’ to have “cognitive privilege”.
Oh course my mom was ‘lucky’ to actually picked cotton (with the proverbial toe-sack)and we were ‘lucky’ to milk the cows and tend to the garden if we wanted to eat then and during the winter. I just love all of the ‘luck’ that “cognitive privilege” gave unto us each and every day.
So, what are some of the ‘luck’ quotes...?
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
The harder I work, the more luck I have.Diligence is the mother of good luck.Poor luck is often given as an excuse for lack of energy.
“You make your own luck and must work hard and plan carefully if you would succeed.”
“Of course I hope you will have good luck on your side, but also I hope you will not wait for luck. You can make your own luck by hard work and the use of common sense.”
What a worthless bunch of pansy BS.
Harvard, Yale, ...
I will think my response to you!
Dumb is kewl. Started with the MTV culture.
Well this idiot was not so fortunately born.
Plenty of people are born smart enough to be successful and achieve nothing. It takes effort and a lot of hard work to turn that potential in to success.
This is just another effort to incite rabid egalitarians to Marxist violence.
Well this idiot was not so fortunately born.
Plenty of people are born smart enough to be successful and achieve nothing. It takes effort and a lot of hard work to turn that potential in to success.
This is just another effort to incite rabid egalitarians to Marxist violence.
[Where do the smart people who are complete idiots fit in?]
Voting with the DNC?
I’m sure it’s all coincidence.....or something.....
Without actually reading the original article it seems that the liberatard very carefully skirted the genetics aspect of what he was suggesting.
There is also weight privilege. Those of us who are naturally slender are entitled to designer clothes. The horror!
What about city privilege vs mountain deprivation?
Coastal waterways and ocean privilege over central habitation?
Respiratory privilege vs asthmatic mouth breathers who had no chance to breathe freely?
Red haired caucasians who can’t expose themselves to sun without burning vs the melanin blessed?
Hey Travis....good to see you still around. Still waiting on another book. ;)
Those immigrants must have had abysmally low IQ scores to bring down national averages....
An 80 on the chart used to mark you as retarded. It seems 80 is considered high these days.
Yes, I AM cognitively privileged. 145 last time I checked, but it doesn’t really count because I was stoned off my butt when I took it.
Having been to Dubai (UAE), Anatoly’s map stats have clearly failed to factor in the 3M IndiaPakiBangaLankaMalayPinoy permanent serf *cough cough* guest workers.
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