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FANDOM, PLZ EMBRACE THIS NOW: I has an invisibul knapsak. U NO U WANT 2.
Here's the essay, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack, in case the link over there isn't working still. It's interesting, I've seen the privileges list excerpted quite a bit (usually with some changes) as "privileges that white people have." But (re?)reading this, I realized that McIntosh actually was identifying "some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life" and it was meant to be specific to her circumstances. I don't think there's anything wrong with generalizing them, but trying to compile our own empirical (by which I mean observed in real life, not scientifically proven :-P) lists of advantages we have might be powerful/helpful. In general, that essay addresses a lot of the issues that I've have had with regard to "white privilege" - such as how not all privileges are things you actually want to have. Which really shows that when people bring those things up as protests of the idea of white privilege, they're hardly adding new input.
By the by. Writing anything seems to be a huge struggle right now. So, uh, sorry if I sound stiff or abrupt in comments or don't comment at all. It's not you, it's me, really.
And now for sleepytimes. They were the best of times, they were the worst of times...
Here's the essay, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack, in case the link over there isn't working still. It's interesting, I've seen the privileges list excerpted quite a bit (usually with some changes) as "privileges that white people have." But (re?)reading this, I realized that McIntosh actually was identifying "some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life" and it was meant to be specific to her circumstances. I don't think there's anything wrong with generalizing them, but trying to compile our own empirical (by which I mean observed in real life, not scientifically proven :-P) lists of advantages we have might be powerful/helpful. In general, that essay addresses a lot of the issues that I've have had with regard to "white privilege" - such as how not all privileges are things you actually want to have. Which really shows that when people bring those things up as protests of the idea of white privilege, they're hardly adding new input.
By the by. Writing anything seems to be a huge struggle right now. So, uh, sorry if I sound stiff or abrupt in comments or don't comment at all. It's not you, it's me, really.
And now for sleepytimes. They were the best of times, they were the worst of times...