hlwiley asked me in a recent comment whether I thought were any useful analogies to be made in the -isms spaces. I responded that while I thought in general, analogies are really sticky and tricky and dangerous things, I would think about it and get back to it.

Here’s my attempt at starting the conversation.

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In which I shall attempt to explain how I think entitlement/privilege is related to docentry/tokenism, reverse racism and how I think you can use your entitlement/privilege for good.

Updated: To try to clarify a bit.

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Sorry to miss yesterday’s IBARW post. I was thinking, definitely, about it, but didn’t have anything that seemed worthy. I do think I will plan, soon, to come up with a flowchart (or possibly more than one) in the style of the “using blackface on your blog” flowchart, that has to do with how to have privilege and avoid being racist, though I fear that scope is too wide for practicality.

Though I sometimes disagree with where Kate Harding and her posse go, I have to give her respect for this self-revealing post about her own privilege and her own processing about privilege.

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This is a great read (from crayonbeam), which she didn’t comment much about, but which I see as a treasury of examples of privilege and entitlement, examined and unexamined, and it’s in the framework of gender, so it may be easier to take in than the scary jungles of race-related issues.

Har.

I’m copying/pasting the entirety of my answer here because sometimes comments are deleted from Ask Metafilter if they’re deemed “off-topic” by the moderators.

Anyhow, the original question is here. Essentially this straight white guy read “Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” and is looking for more resources to self-educate, having had eyes open a bit.

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“Pinky Carruthuers. Blue-Blaze Irregular.”

I apologize, but it’s been a long time since I created this blog - long enough that I’ve forgotten who y’all are. If you came over from LJ, Welcome! and I’ve already added you to appropriate viewing groups based on your username. But if you created a user name that’s not obviously linked to an LJ name or some other name I’m familiar with, then I apologize, but I have definitely forgotten who you are.

So if you’d like to enjoy privileges you’ve already earned (by being such a good buddy!), then please let me know who you are on this blog so I can make sure you see all appropriate posts.

Feel free to let me know here in comments or in e-mail at malcolm.gin@gmail.com.

Thanks!