JESSIE FERNANDEZ Vol 11, Issue 7 Do you think others are too easily offended but feel offended yourself when you are called out for overt or casual discrimination? You may be experiencing privilege-ism. Privilege-ism is when someone hurts, humiliates, intimidates, offends or treats you less favourably based on or because of your privilege. Privilege is often intersectional. This means that if you are privileged, for example, because you are white, you may also experience the privilege of being wealthy. The intersectionality of privilege means you may be at an increased risk of experiencing privilege-ism, or discrimination based on your privilege.
When people tell you to stop discriminating against others more disadvantaged than you, you should not listen to them. If you see someone else being attacked for their privilege, you should stand up for them and support them. Remind the perpetrator of their privilege bias and assist them to realise that not all privileged persons are the same. If the perpetrator is someone you know, consider sending them short, to-the-point articles about privileged people who have contributed something to the community. You may even want to share your own lived experience, but do not feel pressured to do so. Remember, you do not owe perpetrators of privilege-ism any more emotional labour than you have already spent trying to get through life as an oppressed privileged person. If narrative tactics fail to enliven empathy in the privilege-ist you are trying to convince, you may wish to share some statistics or reputable studies about the growing rates of privilege-ism and its impacts on individuals and the wider community. For some, numbers speak louder than words. Together, we can stamp out privilege-ism and maintain the status quo of our wonderful, homogenous, white-supremacist-patriarchal-heteronormative-capitalist-imperialist society. Jessie Fernandez is a final year student who is almost certainly convinced that the De Minimis staff are trolling the comments to increase traffic, but was nevertheless inspired by the irony of said comments. #notallprivileged #notallmen #notallwhitepeople #notallcisgendered #notallcops #notallceos #notallmlsstudents #notallprivateschoolstudents #notalltrumps For context (more specifically the comment sections) The rest of this issue
All privilege is white
10/4/2017 09:33:33 pm
Privilege-ism presupposes that privilege exists.
Henry HL
11/4/2017 05:29:36 pm
Wait.........
Henry HL
11/4/2017 05:45:47 pm
http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Proof+that+privilege+exists
As ice cream sales increase, the rate of drowning deaths increases sharply. Therefore, ice cream consumption causes drowning.
11/4/2017 09:02:49 pm
Are you actually claiming that correlation implies causation?
I Googled it so you don't have to
11/4/2017 09:10:22 pm
Dear Ice Cream,
Everyday patriachy
11/4/2017 09:47:00 pm
So are you saying privilege is the cause of, the result of, or is a name for, institutional power?
#notallcountries
11/4/2017 10:46:47 pm
I would say that privilege is coloured by, or informed by institutional power. Causes of institutional power? A historical inquiry.
Henry HL
12/4/2017 11:24:07 pm
"Or are you claiming privilege is simply a name for these things?
Sukie Ridgemont
11/4/2017 06:21:34 pm
This is true (a fact). It is extremely difficult to prove that privilege is an actual phenomenon: this is because everyone experiences hardship and, as we all know, hardship immediately eradicates any & all aspects of privilege from your life (a very bad or sick thing!!). For example, I was abused from the age of 4, which meant that i didn't get to benefit from my postcode or skin colour at all!! I mean, no one in my family has ever even BEEN to university before, so i resent having all these brown & vagina-having people constantly asking me to "check my privilege" and to think before I speak. I'm entitled to all my opinions, because I've been through things, unlike them, and I won't be challenged by idiot snowflakes who think things like "power" and "privilege" are real. I mean, how did these guys even get into Melbourne Law School?
Daryl Van Horne
11/4/2017 08:57:36 pm
Not an argument. You still haven't offered proof that privilege, white or otherwise, exists. I'm not even sure you have defined its parameters.
John
29/4/2017 07:46:27 pm
@SUKIE RIDGEMONT - well said, except the part about people getting into MLS. If they made it in, they deserve it, regardless of genitals or skin colour.
Jacob debets
11/4/2017 05:21:03 pm
Possibly my favourite De Minimis article ever.
Duncan
11/4/2017 06:29:47 pm
Agreed
TDMS
11/4/2017 08:34:24 pm
Would you two stop trolling the comments section please
Contrarian
11/4/2017 09:09:16 pm
Disagreed
Longtime listener firsttime caller
11/4/2017 09:30:27 pm
This article is so good it made me question everything I believed in. Like The Matrix, except I didn't fall asleep when Laurence Fishburne started to explain my privilege.
Laugh+EyeRoll
11/4/2017 10:10:30 pm
The article is good. You got a laugh or two out of me. The cartoon, not so much. Pretty sure Asad has done more than just politely mention his experience haha. From the outside looking in, it seems like he's bullied Virginia. Bullying is pathetic and mean, no matter how coloured/queer/minority you are.
In defence of cartoon
12/4/2017 08:39:49 am
I think the cartoonist is only responding to the De Minimis articles and comments on them rather than any outside controversy or arguments from the magazine.
Spicy Snowflake
11/4/2017 10:20:59 pm
Hahahaha I love this. Good job, Jessie Fernandez. People, no-one is saying your life can't be hard IF you're white/masc/straight etc, but it's not hard BECAUSE you're white etc. Calm your farm and do a google of things you don't understand. There's no shame in educating yourself
"Your life isn't hard because you're white"
11/4/2017 11:07:56 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/14/mother-aaron-dugmore-bullied-school-claims-inquest
I can Google too
11/4/2017 11:30:12 pm
Outstanding research skills.
Prejudice =/= racism
12/4/2017 12:19:02 am
Uff ok sincerely, poor kid. Look of course bullying is bad. What is your point exactly? Are you equating playground bullies, literally children, to centuries of state-sanctioned institutional abuse of power? Systems put in place specifically to favour certain groups over others? Considering the history of this land, I suggest you start at learning about the concept of "the Other". No not a ghost story starring Nicole Kidman, but the idea that certain peoples are labelled "other" and treated as such, in a systemic way. Whether you want to believe it or not, there are longstanding social, political and economic systems that impact the way we navigate the world and how people perceive us. Whether you want to believe it or not, plenty of research has been done to prove this. It's p basic sociology. And if you don't like being told you benefit from somebody else's oppression, guess what, the way to stop this from happening is to stop benefitting. But people who trade with the psychological wage of whiteness don't want to relinquish the benefits of it hey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other
Racial prejudice
12/4/2017 01:30:19 am
'Paul said: “He became argumentative with his brothers and sisters, which
Sorry, but...
12/4/2017 08:25:58 am
Did you just quote The Sun?
This just in
12/4/2017 03:38:34 pm
We've got it all wrong. This whole time we've been led to believe that First Nations Peoples are the most disproportionately incarcerated communities in the world, followed by Black and non-Black People of Colour. When actually, the police have a racial bias against white people! And playground bullying is the new kyriarchy! Wowza thank you for enlightening us. You are a noble hero amongst us mere brown folks. Make De Minimis Pale Again
Yikes
12/4/2017 03:57:40 pm
One, again white privilege does not mean that nothing bad can ever happen to a person who happens to be white. Seriously. Scroll up and grow up. Two, children bullying other children is not the same as an institutionalised imbalance of power. If you want to talk about children being hurt as a result of an abuse of power, we only have to look back a few months at the horrific news about Don Dale. You're deluded if you think racism and anti-Blackness has nothing to do with that. Again, read up on terms like "the Other" and "kyriarchy" before you speak on things that you clearly do not understand. It's okay to not understand. What's important is that you take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. We are all here 4 u bb, you can do it <3
John
29/4/2017 07:44:51 pm
Privilege is relative. People look up the ladder of privilege, not down.
Kitty
1/5/2017 08:53:36 pm
To true John. Comments are closed.
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