This. This is everything. On why generally non-asshole privileged people sometimes say asshole things. "The first step in WLDPS therapy is for the sufferer to acknowledge that it does not matter what was or was not in his head, or what he “really” meant. Part of privilege is the deep conviction that one is the absolute authority on one’s own mental states and thus the dictator of one’s own meanings — no one can tell you what they are, what you think, who you are, man. You don’t know me! We privileged dudes have trouble accepting that language is a social phenomenon, a social act, and meaning is created collectively, in the spaces between and among people. When you use language that is freighted with social meaning, you are responsible for that meaning, even if you did not “intend” it." jezebel/amazing-white-liberal-privileged-dude-apologizes-for-979610243?fb_action_ids=10153063459020076&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210153063459020076%22%3A203872466444234%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210153063459020076%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:28:42 +0000
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