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re: How white entitlement marred my trip to a Ferguson teach-in
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:08 pm to 90proofprofessional
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:08 pm to 90proofprofessional
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to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU.
What the hell is a teach in?
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Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:09 pm to 90proofprofessional
The only places left in America where racism is a huge daily part of life is academia and the media and politics. For those of us in the real world who have moved on, it's becoming increasingly obvious that all of this is just a Marxist ploy to incite class warfare for political/capital gain.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:10 pm to RogerTheShrubber
My guess is that it's a bunch of unionized teachers who are taking the day off (and using a sub to fill in) to show up at lib quarters NYU and protest they-know-not-what, aka Ferguson.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:11 pm to Bard
I love how she has to mention her headphones are "beats"
she has to sell her blackness, "I ain't dressed like no motherfrickin' Tom"
The only rude thing I take from that interaction is her bag was occupying a seat on a train she knew was full, and she was too occupied listening to her headphones that she couldn't see someon right next to her?
A black man would never do that? I mean, what the fricking frick? black men are superior to white men, I say this in the interest of racial harmony. Cuz see here, black men are incapable of being rude, but white menz is always doin it.
she has to sell her blackness, "I ain't dressed like no motherfrickin' Tom" The only rude thing I take from that interaction is her bag was occupying a seat on a train she knew was full, and she was too occupied listening to her headphones that she couldn't see someon right next to her?
A black man would never do that? I mean, what the fricking frick?
black men are superior to white men, I say this in the interest of racial harmony. Cuz see here, black men are incapable of being rude, but white menz is always doin it. 
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:12 pm to 90proofprofessional
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Some will argue that I cannot generalize ideas about white entitlement from the action of one jerk on the train. After all, people get into petty squabbles on the train all the time. Let us not forget, however, that the civil rights movement was catalyzed by a squabble over a seat on a bus. I’m no Rosa Parks, of course. But what these connected histories teach us is that the right to occupy public accommodations unharassed is a right black people fought for. Died for.
You could fly a fricking plane through the logical gap there.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:13 pm to Rickety Cricket
Why do you even bother looking for logic? That's an afterthought. Have you read some of the comments to her 'article?' Pathetic doesn't begin to describe them.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:14 pm to 90proofprofessional
Now if he had just sat down on her expensive laptop do one would be saying anything.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:15 pm to Rickety Cricket
try complaining about this to a black person in 1962. I was sitting next to this white man and then he moved my bag without asking me...now what part would grab their attention?
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:16 pm to DelU249
Entitlement is thinking your bag and computer can take up an empty seat.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:17 pm to 90proofprofessional
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“Well, you should listen when I talk to you.”
So Salon took the above quote, a simple observation (by the white guy who amazingly had a white hand), truncated it from the front, and turned it into a command and this far more incendiary and demanding headline:
"“Listen when I talk to you!”: How white entitlement marred my trip to a Ferguson teach-in "
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:18 pm to Arksulli
I can't believe an incident so innocuous and non-substantive actually a) offended her and b) was the basis of a column and c) an actual editor read it and approved it.
Honestly, I'm skeptical the incident happened as she described it, and I would even go so far as to say it probably didn't even happen. It sounds completely made up.
Honestly, I'm skeptical the incident happened as she described it, and I would even go so far as to say it probably didn't even happen. It sounds completely made up.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:19 pm to 90proofprofessional
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Brittney Cooper is a contributing writer at Salon, and teaches Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers. Follow her on Twitter at @professorcrunk
So being a whiny bitch is now a major? It just gets worse and worse.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:20 pm to NHTIGER
What kind of publication is 'Salon' anyway?!?! And who the heck reads it?
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:21 pm to RogerTheShrubber
That's the obvious. Rude people don't realize they're rude. The kicker is she prescribes this guy's totally normal behavior to white entitlement...and it almost ruined her trip
Also, she is a rude, angry, fat black woman...so much for breaking down stereotypes... a white woman would never eat that many cheeseburgers seriously, that's how dumb her story sounds
Also, she is a rude, angry, fat black woman...so much for breaking down stereotypes...
a white woman would never eat that many cheeseburgers seriously, that's how dumb her story soundsPosted on 12/17/14 at 4:21 pm to Bard
Don Imus was right about the women of Rutgers. they all look "rough"
they all look "rough"Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:22 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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What the hell is a teach in?
Big activist thing in the 60's. Was a good way to meet braless chicks who would sleep with you if you just nodded at the speaker whenever they nodded at the speaker.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:23 pm to NHTIGER
When seeing a hand in my face, skin color doesn't come to mind. The fact I have a hand in my face does
oooooooo, that hand is white...shits about to go down now
oooooooo, that hand is white...shits about to go down now
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:23 pm to 90proofprofessional
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train to New York
quote:The problem may be riding the train while male.
shoving my work carry-on toward me. Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a white guy, who was haphazardly handling my open bag, with my laptop perched just inside to make space for himself on the seat next to me.
That he wanted the seat on the now full train was not the problem.
The problem may be riding the train while female.
The problem may be riding the train while white.
The problem may be riding the train while black.
But my bet goes with riding the train while yankee.
If you live in crowded bustling locales, self-absorbed folks you encounter may be rude. Nothing more. Nothing less.
In this case, the other problem may be riding the train while fat.
Sorry, but the overfed woman in that pic spilled well over her seat into the next, before she ever tried to confiscate the next one with her stuff.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:24 pm to conservativewifeymom
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What kind of publication is 'Salon' anyway?!?!
The shitty kind.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:24 pm to Bard
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@ProfessorCrunk: Words I wish whitesplainers would stop using when talking abt race: 'universal' 'objective' 'human nature'
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