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Posted on 12/10/17 at 11:03 pm to SeeeeK
Yes, but I only access it with my invisible hand so no one will know.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 11:08 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
does anyone ever question why white people may have a positive stereotype ?
I think it is kind of like people that have a good credit rating.
I think it is kind of like people that have a good credit rating.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 11:20 pm to SeeeeK
Who the frick uses the word "knapsack"?
Posted on 12/10/17 at 11:25 pm to Cap Crunch
quote:
Who the frick uses the word "knapsack"?
Computer scientists.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 12:12 am to Spock's Eyebrow
Where's the college professor privilege knapsack?
Their standard contract is for the academic year, which is 9 months. They make between $7000 - $10,000 per month (some make more, very few make less), and the university provides every tool imagineable for them to do their teaching, research, and everything else they might need to fulfill their Statement of Expectations / Contract. And except at the more well respected R1 universities, job security is pretty much assured for life. And if they fail and can't hack it, they'll go to community college where salary is pretty good as well and the job is even easier.
When you have a PhD, teaching entry level courses in that topic area is pretty damn easy.
Oh, and at many universities, you can get an extra month's salary just for submitting a grant proposal per academic year, or per semester, and it doesn't matter if it gets funded. That only applies for tenure and not making tenure doesn't mean you get fired at many places, it just means you don't get tenure.
But, it's the white electrician or car salesman that is living the life of privilege.
Their standard contract is for the academic year, which is 9 months. They make between $7000 - $10,000 per month (some make more, very few make less), and the university provides every tool imagineable for them to do their teaching, research, and everything else they might need to fulfill their Statement of Expectations / Contract. And except at the more well respected R1 universities, job security is pretty much assured for life. And if they fail and can't hack it, they'll go to community college where salary is pretty good as well and the job is even easier.
When you have a PhD, teaching entry level courses in that topic area is pretty damn easy.
Oh, and at many universities, you can get an extra month's salary just for submitting a grant proposal per academic year, or per semester, and it doesn't matter if it gets funded. That only applies for tenure and not making tenure doesn't mean you get fired at many places, it just means you don't get tenure.
But, it's the white electrician or car salesman that is living the life of privilege.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 3:33 am to SeeeeK
From the sick brain of white, man-hating lesbian.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 5:36 am to SeeeeK
It may be true, this invisible knapsack, to a degree. But so what if it is? With great power comes great responsibility. BTW, I am a white male, I am very accustomed to being all-powerful and immune to all limits.
This post was edited on 12/11/17 at 5:39 am
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:00 am to SeeeeK
I prefer my invisible responsibility cloak. When I take care of all my responsibilities, my life seems to go much better than those who don’t.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:04 am to SeeeeK
I never leave home without it.
(I made mine using kaizen)
(I made mine using kaizen)
This post was edited on 12/11/17 at 6:23 am
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:04 am to SeeeeK
Does anyone know where I can find a John Stockton Jr model? My kid occasionally likes to shoot hoops and wants to play middle school basketball but I'm afraid he's not tall and lacks good ball handling skills. This knapsack would make a sweet Christmas present
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:14 am to SeeeeK
Please list the title of that book.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:17 am to SeeeeK
There is nothing funny about your OP. You should be taking measures to remove things like that from textbooks, not laughing at it.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:32 am to SeeeeK
quote:
Do you carry your,"Invisible Knapsack" daily?
Nothing invisible about mine; I shove it in people's faces and say frick you on the way by
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:54 am to SeeeeK
Proudly.
And sometimes I swing and hit liberals over the skull with it. And laugh.
And sometimes I swing and hit liberals over the skull with it. And laugh.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 6:56 am to SeeeeK
I prefer mine to not be invisible so that people who aren't privileged can see my knapsack.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 7:00 am to SeeeeK
I see nothing wrong here. 
Posted on 12/11/17 at 7:13 am to lsuhunt555
A knapsack isn't large enough to carry all of my privilege. I have to have use an 18-wheeler that follows me around all day.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 7:17 am to SeeeeK
I smack my wife's off her back every morning. Little game we play.
She hates it.
She hates it.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 7:25 am to SeeeeK
The knapsack metaphor comes from an article written in 1989 by Peggy McIntosh. Peggy looks like she should be baking you cookies:
But Peggy actually wrote about her realization of white privilege.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (linked article title is wrong - should be knapsack)
It was my second least favorite article to read in grad school right behind the one that said a computer interface was racist for using office items as images (folders, office trash bins, "files").
But Peggy actually wrote about her realization of white privilege.
quote:
1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.
3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.
5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be
followed or harassed.
6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.
7. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
8. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.
9. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.
10. I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only
member of my race.
11. I can be casual about whether or not to listen to another person's voice in a group in which s/he is the only member of his/her race.
12. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair.
13. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.
14. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.
15. I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection.
16. I can be pretty sure that my children's teachers and employers will tolerate them if they fit school and workplace norms; my chief worries about them do not concern others' attitudes toward their race.
17. I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color.
18. I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race.
19. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.
20. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.
21. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.
22. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world's majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.
23. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and
behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.
24. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the "person in charge", I will be facing a person of my race.
25. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.
26. I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race.
27. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance or feared.
28. I can be pretty sure that an argument with a colleague of another race is more likely to jeopardize her/his chances for advancement than to jeopardize mine.
29. I can be pretty sure that if I argue for the promotion of a person of another race, or a program centering on race, this is not likely to cost me heavily within my present setting, even if my colleagues disagree with me.
30. If I declare there is a racial issue at hand, or there isn't a racial issue at hand, my race will lend me more credibility for either position than a person of color will have.
31. I can choose to ignore developments in minority writing and minority activist
programs, or disparage them, or learn from them, but in any case, I can find ways to be more or less protected from negative consequences of any of these choices.
32. My culture gives me little fear about ignoring the perspectives and powers of people of other races.
33. I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing or body odor will be taken as a reflection on my race.
34. I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking.
35. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
36. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.
37. I can be pretty sure of finding people who would be willing to talk with me and
advise me about my next steps, professionally.
38. I can think over many options, social, political, imaginative or professional, without asking whether a person of my race would be accepted or allowed to do what I want to do.
39. I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.
40. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
41. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.
42. I can arrange my activities so that I will never have to experience feelings of rejection owing to my race.
43. If I have low credibility as a leader I can be sure that my race is not the problem.
44. I can easily find academic courses and institutions which give attention only to people of my race.
45. I can expect figurative language and imagery in all of the arts to testify to experiences of my race.
46. I can chose blemish cover or bandages in "flesh" color and have them more or less match my skin.
47. I can travel alone or with my spouse without expecting embarrassment or hostility in those who deal with us.
48. I have no difficulty finding neighborhoods where people approve of our household.
49. My children are given texts and classes which implicitly support our kind of family unit and do not turn them against my choice of domestic partnership.
50. I will feel welcomed and "normal" in the usual walks of public life, institutional and social.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (linked article title is wrong - should be knapsack)
It was my second least favorite article to read in grad school right behind the one that said a computer interface was racist for using office items as images (folders, office trash bins, "files").
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