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26th October 2011

Link reblogged from woof with 54 notes

somewhere different now: Obies Occupying Wall Street: Check Your Privilege →

mermaidbashing:

thirstforsalt:

I don’t really understand the arguments here.  I think it is admirable that people with the privilege to participate in what you’re calling a vacation but what I would call short-term occupation and long-term alignment are doing it.  I do NOT understand the constant undermining of the protesters on an ad hominem basis.  It’s extremely important that bodies of all backgrounds continue to make waves in America and the international media.  I am glad people are still joining and growing the movement.

the OP isn’t talking about the protesters in general ad hominem, he’s talking about how individual organizers can be more responsible.  big difference.

This. I generally support OWS as a movement, and I agree that it needs to draw a broad base of support in order to succeed. But I think that people from economically privileged backgrounds can contribute much more meaningfully if they are able to put their own experiences in perspective and protest as allies to the 95+% of the country who are much worse off than they are. That’s what I was trying to get at in the last paragraph of my post.

I see the complaints that these students raise as stemming from a dissatisfaction that the class privilege they grew up with has not opened the doors that they expected it to as easily as they expected it would. That seems to be missing the point of what OWS is about: acknowledging the ways that capitalism screws over those who never had those privileges at all.

Source: linearbbq

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    couldn’t hope to affored Oberlin’s...should read this post because it highlights
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    DEFINITELY click through...original post; totally worth
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    Emphatic knock. I have nothing to add to this.
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    KNOCK FUCKING KNOCK.
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    As much as I hate the term “Check your privilege”… READ THIS. A really, really well-written argument. ALL THE AGREEMENT!
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    OP isn’t talking about...protesters in general ad hominem, he’s talking
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    the OP isn’t talking about the protesters in general ad hominem, he’s talking about how individual organizers can be...
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    I don’t really understand the arguments here. I think it is admirable that people with the privilege to participate in...
  22. zincfingers reblogged this from linearbbq and added:
    COMMENTARY! This is a far better response to this article than the pointedly disdainful comments I was making on the...
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