Posts by Jackie Clark
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Well, I don't have a dishwasher. Or a coffee machine. Or an ipad. If I had a dishwasher, I would let it boss me around as much as it liked.
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Okay, for the first time in their lives I have introduced the concept of privilege to my colleagues. One said, and I quote “What the hell are you on about, now?” and with the other, we talked about the privilege that her daughter enjoys by going to a school that is not in South Auckland, like all her cousins. A privilege that her parents make sacrifices for. Now, I know that that sort of privilege isn’t what we were originally talking about, strictly. But this is a conversation I will be pursuing with people outside my colleagues as well,
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Jolisa,
I think that's my problem. I use jargon so much in my work - be it educative jargon and not political - that I weary of it very quickly. Whatever word we want to use for it, we know what it is, we acknowledge it's existence, we do what we can to counter it in ourselves. I used to think the things that are outlined here and in other places about privilege, and I still do to a certain extent. I used to spout the jargon, walk the walk, talk the talk. It was my passion. Nowadays, my passion is about advocacy for children. So my beliefs about privilege haven't changed necessarily, it's just that I have moved my focus from adult disenfranchisement, to that of children . If you want lecturing about that, I'm your woman.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Deborah,
I don't think everyone's the same as me. I just think they should be.
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Megan, I know what other is. I've known it all my life. And I understand everything you are saying, and I agree with you. I just don't like that p word.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Islander,
Ew. Never raw. How about poached? Loved them poached with baked beans. Mmmmm.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Sacha,
I'll just be over here with all the other elderly women sucking eggs.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Sacha,
Which would be my way of saying - "no shit, sherlock"
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And also? I work in ECE, which is one of the MOST politically correct sectors, and have done so for 15 years. No-one has ever ever ever used the p word. Ever. The terms used are far more pragmatic. In my world, palagi is the p word that's used to imply that someone's up themselves. Ironically, the kids tell me I'm Maori. Because that means I am less snobby than palagi, but they know I ain't Pasifika.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Ah, yes. If I may. "Since social status is conferred in many different ways — everything from race to geography to class — all people are both privileged and non-privileged in certain aspects of their life. Furthermore, since dynamics of social status are highly dependent on situation, a person can benefit from privilege in one situation while not benefiting from it in another. It is also possible to have a situation in which a person simultaneously is the beneficiary of privilege while also being the recipient of discrimination in an area which they do not benefit from privilege." Which is my point, entirely. And it is why I don't like the term. Normative is far less highly charged, for me at any rate.