Comments on: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table http://greengabbro.net/2007/08/30/notes-from-the-books-precariously-stacked-on-my-bedside-table/ rock out to the apparatus Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Lab Lemming http://greengabbro.net/2007/08/30/notes-from-the-books-precariously-stacked-on-my-bedside-table/#comment-19798 Lab Lemming Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:06:28 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/08/30/notes-from-the-books-precariously-stacked-on-my-bedside-table/#comment-19798 One of the things I dislike about the idea of attacking privilege is that it makes the world a meaner place. For example, if you assume a starting wolrd with a privileged class and an opressed class, the two options for imposing equality are either extending privilege to everyone and eradicating opression, or eradicating privilege and making opression universal. Why would anyone go for the second option? After all, privilege basically boils down to an implicit assumption of trust or benevolence. Isn't extending that to all of humanity way more sensible than advocating universal paranoia? One of the things I dislike about the idea of attacking privilege is that it makes the world a meaner place.

For example, if you assume a starting wolrd with a privileged class and an opressed class, the two options for imposing equality are either extending privilege to everyone and eradicating opression, or eradicating privilege and making opression universal. Why would anyone go for the second option?

After all, privilege basically boils down to an implicit assumption of trust or benevolence. Isn’t extending that to all of humanity way more sensible than advocating universal paranoia?

]]> By: yami http://greengabbro.net/2007/08/30/notes-from-the-books-precariously-stacked-on-my-bedside-table/#comment-19634 yami Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:58:16 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/08/30/notes-from-the-books-precariously-stacked-on-my-bedside-table/#comment-19634 1) Richmond, VA, c. the early 1960s or so. 2) He didn't provide that level of introspection. But I assume racial classification in the Jim Crow South operated on some hilarious assotment of physical and social cues, many of which would fall apart under closer scrutiny. 1) Richmond, VA, c. the early 1960s or so.
2) He didn’t provide that level of introspection. But I assume racial classification in the Jim Crow South operated on some hilarious assotment of physical and social cues, many of which would fall apart under closer scrutiny.

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://greengabbro.net/2007/08/30/notes-from-the-books-precariously-stacked-on-my-bedside-table/#comment-19631 Lab Lemming Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:43:29 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/08/30/notes-from-the-books-precariously-stacked-on-my-bedside-table/#comment-19631 That's a good line by Mr. Peeples, I like it. But I have two questions: First, where does he dredge up cashiers with such paleolithic attitudes? Even in Alice Springs, the capital of soft racism, people aren't that overt. They just import no shirt, no shoes, no service signs from America. Secondly, what made Ed think that the people smiling were African-American? That’s a good line by Mr. Peeples, I like it. But I have two questions:

First, where does he dredge up cashiers with such paleolithic attitudes? Even in Alice Springs, the capital of soft racism, people aren’t that overt. They just import no shirt, no shoes, no service signs from America.

Secondly, what made Ed think that the people smiling were African-American?

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