The news media reports on topics that sell, using memes that sell. It is getting pretty out of control, because memes and rationality are not the same thing. There is no reasoning with people, once they have embraced a meme. 'Privilege' is now just a meme, and like all memes it gets applied to things, people, and situations that the reasoning behind the meme never would have applied to.
People are taking memes and applying them in very strange ways, frequently applying them in ways that completely contradicts the original intent behind the meme. For example, brochures that have pictures of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. It's become a meme. The original intent was for the brochure to convey a welcoming and accepting image. An 'all are welcome' image. But now, some people are turning that meme on its head and arguing that the meme represents institutions profiting on diversity. So if a university places a picture of some black people sprinkled in with white people on their brochure, then the university is profiting on the image of black people. The brochure that was intended to make black people feel welcome is now argued to be profiting on the image of black people. This is very bizarre. If the university just shows white people in their brochure, then they are racist. If they show some black people, then they are profiting on the image of black people. That's a catch 22, and it seems to be a high minded racial extortion racket, in my opinion.
Here's an article about this issue:
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11...ancy-leong
People are taking memes and applying them in very strange ways, frequently applying them in ways that completely contradicts the original intent behind the meme. For example, brochures that have pictures of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. It's become a meme. The original intent was for the brochure to convey a welcoming and accepting image. An 'all are welcome' image. But now, some people are turning that meme on its head and arguing that the meme represents institutions profiting on diversity. So if a university places a picture of some black people sprinkled in with white people on their brochure, then the university is profiting on the image of black people. The brochure that was intended to make black people feel welcome is now argued to be profiting on the image of black people. This is very bizarre. If the university just shows white people in their brochure, then they are racist. If they show some black people, then they are profiting on the image of black people. That's a catch 22, and it seems to be a high minded racial extortion racket, in my opinion.
Here's an article about this issue:
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11...ancy-leong
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