Harvard’s Kennedy School Adds Privilege-Checking to New-Student Orientation

lexdiamondz1902 · 2014-05-13T21:26:34+00:00

I'm black and I find this somewhat repugnant. At the same time though, alot of college kids think their lives are hard and have no real world experience, so maybe this will give them some kinda perspective. Too many freshmen decide to jump off bridges and slit their throats because of minor shit.

Robdogx9001 · 2014-05-14T00:18:58+00:00

These are the death throws of a liberal arts education.

The_Psychopath · 2014-05-14T05:42:38+00:00

They're all at fucking HARVARD. The only way they could get more privileged is if they were born with a golden spoon in their mouth and their manservant that carries their bookbag was only born with a silver spoon.

Glenbert · 2014-05-14T00:14:26+00:00

Does anyone here think the the school's namesake ever, or would have ever, checked his own ridiculously immense privileged?

JohnGalt316 · 2014-05-14T04:49:24+00:00

i would have a blast with this

i'd point out all the advantages blacks, gays, and women get and i'd drop the "check your privilege" line

[deleted] · 2014-05-13T23:23:32+00:00

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2014/05/its-a-world-of-wonder.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e201a73dbd15d5970d#comment-6a00d83451675669e201a73dbd15d5970d

David, in the category of soft student brains, I'd enjoy your insights on this proposal for mandatory privilege shaming in Harvard:

At Friday’s event, about 80 students participated in an exercise to visualize the differences in privilege created by race and gender. The students began in a single line, but as students were asked to step forward or backward based on questions about the social repercussions of their socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and sexual identities, the line became disjointed.

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I don’t have much to add to previous outings on the subject. What’s interesting, I suppose, and discouraging, is that those fretting as instructed about “power differentials” don’t seem overly troubled by the rather obvious and intimate power - and willingness to intrude - of those who wish to purge them of WrongThought™. I just wonder if there comes a point at which an institution is so snarled in dogma and begged questions, and so steeped in dishonesty, that it becomes not only unworthy but unsalvageable.

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A lot of them seem to like it.

It's like paying good money to be spanked with a hairbrush by a middle aged woman and told you're a naughty pony.

Except less dignified.

The big draw for these Maoist self-criticism sessions seems to be a combination of the thrill of humiliating others while wallowing in delicious victimhood, and even for the poor pathetic specimens who get to denounce themselves for their hideous whiteness or whatever, at least it's all about THEM.

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... the ideologues and monomaniacs behind such policies show an extraordinary disregard for normal boundaries and proprieties. It’s a defining feature of the type, one we’ve seen again and again and again. Imposing on others, especially the young and impressionable, and making them uncomfortable, anxious and dishonest seems to be the pay-off for all that bogus piety. It’s a license for sadism and it therefore attracts a certain kind of person. And the fact that their efforts are typically absurd doesn’t make them any less sinister.

battlebaconxxl · 2014-05-14T04:55:26+00:00

Why is /pol always right?

[deleted] · 2014-05-14T05:34:59+00:00

They are hijacking humility.

Complecs · 2014-05-14T20:17:55+00:00

I've got to stop reading this shit at work.

isthatyourdaughter · 2014-05-14T12:12:58+00:00

Well, anyone going to school for "government" is a fucking asshole. So this makes sense.

Title	Harvard’s Kennedy School Adds Privilege-Checking to New-Student Orientation
Author	Denswend
Upvotes	16
Comments	22
Date	May 13, 2014 9:20 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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