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
It is pretty easy to compare BlabberMouth Schultz with Einstein and see that we are not equal. Why is that such a hard thing to accept?
You can be intelligent and refuse to learn or get involved with drugs and alcohol. No one is immune from failure.
this privilege stuff is getting completely out of hand
at this rate
people that are living
have a privilege over people that are dead....
therefore for equality...
Everybody should kill themselves immediately
I hope you realized my comment was sarcastic...I didn’t think I would need a sarcasm signal...
but you could also say the born have privilege over The Unborn and we must stop that inequality
“145 last time I checked, but it doesn’t really count because I was stoned off my butt when I took it.”
135 here, and I was the same way when I took it.
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Bttt
Let's concede that for the sake of argument. If I did nothing to earn it, then I also did nothing to solicit it. I was given it, either by accident of birth or as a benefit from the Almighty, depending on your religiosity.
But whatever its origin, it wasn't something I actively sought and thus, I can't be penalized for having it. Nor does my having it in any way detract from those who don't have it. So I owe them exactly nothing.
My becoming stupider won't make them smarter.
It’s a race down to 50.
Technically, the Jews have the Asians beat with cognitive privilege. Almost a full standard deviation of IQ smarter.
And we gentiles routinely take all their stuff and try to kill them.
It’s like they have a friend or something!?(yes sarcasm)
Identity politics at its finest.
Idiocracy rules.
Cleary I responded to the wrong comment. I was just adding in the point that you can not make a smart kid learn if he doesn't want to. Jails are full of Mensa Members.
Amazing what the cognitively underprivileged will come up with these days.
This whole “privilege” nonsense is the ranting from groups that have accepted their own genetic inferiority - probably because our government has instituted policies to deal with just that. Our government insists we treat all people equally, then sets up quotas and set-asides because THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T BELIEVE WE ARE EQUAL.
Oh, my new book is out already.
“The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun.”
Yes. Let’s all take advice from a 21 year old school’s newspaper article. !#$*!
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