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Imagine - Trump can take credit for some non-event like Bahrain-Isreal but when it comes to near 200k dead on his doorstep it's 'BuT iTs ThE StATeS Re...
September 12, 2020 at 00:55
:up:
September 11, 2020 at 05:42
Let me know how you find this. As a book I thought it was an incredible read. I even think he's exactly right to point out that there is a certain cla...
September 11, 2020 at 05:14
191,000 dead people.
September 10, 2020 at 10:06
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That's all that 'white privilege' is meant to bring to the fore! To make visible what is, in the main, invisible.
September 09, 2020 at 17:55
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I think so. By racially marked I simply mean that one's race is, as it were, re-marked upon, whether in word or deed. A kind of racial intentionality ...
September 09, 2020 at 17:51
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Cool, 'cause that's not what white privilege is or implies - although I understand that for you, seeing the word 'white' can mean nothing other than s...
September 09, 2020 at 17:37
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No it's absolutely experience, and it's that experience that informs thought. When one doesn't experience racial marking in one's day-to-day, then rac...
September 09, 2020 at 17:18
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This isn't it though. The language of privilege is simply a discourse meant to de-universalize one's experience and to remind one that one's experienc...
September 09, 2020 at 16:44
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One of the markers of white privilege in an overwhelmingly racist society is, of course, the luxury of being able to have one's race being 'the furthe...
September 09, 2020 at 09:32
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I mean, I get it. It's not easy to think that one can be arbitrarily murdered on the basis of one's skin alone - and equally, not arbitrarily executed...
September 09, 2020 at 02:21
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"CR: It’s about separating economic privilege from white privilege. Because what you actually get with whiteness is the ability to move freely, and to...
September 09, 2020 at 01:24
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html "Trump's disdain for Obama was so extreme that he took his...
September 06, 2020 at 13:36
Our little Trump prostitute NOS still pretending that there's any possible way to think that Trump is not a soulless wasteland of a human being hey?
September 06, 2020 at 04:38
On Android if you hold your finger down on a word it will eventually highlight, with the option to expand or contract the selection and quote it. Does...
September 05, 2020 at 09:53
As I read somewhere else - these people would eat a shit sandwich just so that some 'lib' somewhere could smell their breath. Trump being said sandwic...
September 05, 2020 at 05:40
The Deleuze entry of the wiki article made me twitch a bit. But yeah - Graeber was a singular mind. He wrote works that challenged the order of things...
September 04, 2020 at 14:00
Pierre Clastres - Archaeology of Violence Eduardo Viveiros de Castro - Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology David Graeber - Fragme...
September 04, 2020 at 11:08
My instinct is to read it as an aversion to a kind of academic "war of all against all" so that the 'winner' is the Darwinist ubermensch who can provi...
September 04, 2020 at 11:07
I'm curious as well, actually. My sense is that the sentence before gives the target of the critique: Given that this prefaces a book on mutual aid - ...
September 04, 2020 at 10:09
Then you aren't talking about 'the historical record'. At least no more than you would be if you were talking about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
September 03, 2020 at 04:04
Huh? There is barely any 'historical record' of Jesus, save a pair of fleeting mentions by Tactius and Josephus, and neither makes any reference to hi...
September 03, 2020 at 03:42
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:up: Basic.
September 02, 2020 at 19:10
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ITT: Bunch of people complaining about their own hermeneutic ineptitude while others worry about making it out alive on the other side of a 'routine' ...
September 01, 2020 at 07:44
Small moments at which I am minimally and grudgingly thankful that I live where I do: https://www.theage.com.au/national/workers-have-a-right-to-take-...
September 01, 2020 at 06:14
:clap:
September 01, 2020 at 04:13
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Oh I will sweetie pie, knowing that you're my biggest fan :kiss: Maybe you can continue plastering me with labels while whining about how you hate ide...
September 01, 2020 at 03:08
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These sheltered two-bit liberals have gone all their lives without having to deal with any personal racial animus whatsoever, so the most insulting th...
September 01, 2020 at 02:35
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Dunno why this is so hard to grasp. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/police-killings-black-white-poverty
August 31, 2020 at 10:38
This looks great! How are you finding it? CR: Fred Moten and Stefano Herney - The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study Frank B. Wilderson I...
August 31, 2020 at 05:14
You're more optimistic than I - I'll believe it when I see it.
August 30, 2020 at 02:08
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Judy, as is well known, likes to fantasize about me, even when - or rather especially when - not engaged in conversation with me. In any case, it's no...
August 29, 2020 at 07:46
NOS is whatever wing Trump decides to be on the day. Our resident prostitute.
August 29, 2020 at 05:54
This discussion was merged into Uproar
August 29, 2020 at 03:46
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It can become this, but you're probably right about circles. Like @"Banno", my experience of the use of the term 'privilege' is that it tends to come ...
August 28, 2020 at 10:49
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I don't disagree, but that's kind of the point, no? That one is able to talk about one's privilege in a critical way is precisely, a mark of it. It no...
August 28, 2020 at 08:24
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A lovely series of indignant assertions, lacking argument and still wrongly assocating the term with 'blame'. Beyond argument I suppose.
August 27, 2020 at 23:36
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Interesting. On paper, the term ought to do the exact opposite of this - insofar as privilege is a social relation and speaks precisely to supera-indi...
August 27, 2020 at 22:55
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I did the exact opposite of that. I 'admitted' that the term captures something quite real about our state of affairs, in which normalcy has acquired ...
August 27, 2020 at 22:30
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I'm not referring to any definitional origin in critical theory or whathaveyou. I'm not even sure it has such a provenance. Just my understanding in i...
August 27, 2020 at 18:12
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No. The phrase is a framing device. It draws attention to a feature a reality. That's all. It won't 'result' in anything unless people act with it. An...
August 27, 2020 at 17:18
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Not at all. As creative noted, the dissonance between what ought to be a state of 'normalcy' and it having count as a privilege is precisely the point...
August 27, 2020 at 15:39
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But 'the problem' is not white privilege, but the fact of it being unacknowledged in situations where it ought to be. As far as your purely nominal di...
August 27, 2020 at 14:39
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Couldn't put it better myself. Imagine thinking acknowledging privilege amounts to demonization.
August 27, 2020 at 03:09
The RNC - in which the GOP adopts Führerprinzip as their (only) organizing stricture. After, of course, opening with the chant of "12 more years".
August 26, 2020 at 13:23
"In many respects, the RNC is an ugly mirror image of last week’s Democratic convention. Neither offers any real solutions to the growing number of Am...
August 25, 2020 at 17:05
Yes yes, make what excuses you will for that human scum.
August 24, 2020 at 01:22
Presumably you mean bits like this?: "Pictures of children behind chain-link fencing were captured at a site in McAllen, Texas, that had been converte...
August 23, 2020 at 18:41
Well now that you mention it, yes, Biden absolutely did lock children in cages and very likely destroyed tens or hundreds of thousands of families wit...
August 23, 2020 at 17:55
Its' true - everyone and their dog knows that Trump is a wanking fuck-wad, and there's little use for further confirmation. And the results are indeed...
August 23, 2020 at 16:00