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The Privilege of Whiteness
As a biracial child who spent part of his youth abroad, Barack Obama learned the feeling of otherness and became attuned to how he was perceived by those around him. As a politician, he knew well that many white people saw him as a vehicle for their hopes of a post-racial society. Even if those hopes were somewhat naïve, they came from a sincere and admirable desire, and he was happy to let those sentiments carry him along. Part of the bargain, though, was that he had to be extremely careful about how he talked about race, and then only on the rarest of occasions. His race had to be a source of hope and pride—for everybody—but not of displeasure, discontent, or worst of all, a grievance that would demand redress. No one knew better than him that everything was fine only as long as we all could feel good about Barack Obama being black.
So when he made his unexpected remarks about Trayvon Martin on Friday, Obama was stepping into some dangerous territory. By talking about his own experience as a black man, he was trying to foster both understanding and empathy, to explain to white Americans why the Martin case has caused so much consternation and pain among black Americans. The petty (and not so petty) daily suspicion and indignities and mistreatment black people are talking about? Even I, the most powerful human being on the planet, know them well.
In doing so—and by saying "it's going to be important for all of us to do some soul-searching"—he may have implicitly encouraged white people to think about their own privilege, the privilege of whiteness. Privilege is a dangerous word, one that raises lots of hackles, and one Obama himself would never, ever use. But it's inescapable.
Despite the way people react when the word is introduced, acknowledging your own privilege doesn't cost anything. I grew up in a home with lots of books, in a town with good schools, in a country with extraordinary opportunities. I benefited hugely from them all, though I created none of them. I may have earned my current job as a writer, but compared to the labors of those who wait tables or clean houses or do factory work, it's so absurdly pleasant you can barely call it work at all. But more to the point, in all my years I've never been stopped by a cop who just wanted to know who I was and what I was up to. I've never been accused of "furtive movements," the rationale New York City police use for the hundreds of thousands of times every year they question black and Hispanic men. I've never been frisked on the street, and nobody has ever responded with fear when I got in an elevator. That's not because of my inherent personal virtue. It's because I'm white.
I will never have to sit my children down and give them a lengthy talk about what to do and not to do when they encounter the police. That's the talk so many black parents make sure to give their children, one filled with detailed instructions about how to not appear threatening, how to diffuse tension, what to do with your hands when you get pulled over, and how to end the encounter without being arrested or beaten. I can tell my children, "Don't do anything stupid," and that will probably be enough. I worry about them as much as any parent, but there are some things I don't have to worry about.
Because of my privilege, I also don't have to concern myself with how strangers are thinking of me when I leave the house, because their thoughts will bear on me not a whit. Amir "Questlove" Thompson, drummer for The Roots and bandleader for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, wrote last week about how he is constantly made aware of the fact that, as a large black man, he makes other people uncomfortable. "My friends know that I hate parking lots and elevators, not because they are places that danger could occur, but it's a prime place in which someone of my physical size can be seen as a dangerous element. I wait and wait in cars until I feel it's safe for me to make people feel safe." Privilege means not spending any mental energy worrying about how you make other people feel by your very presence. Privilege means never having the thought even occur to you.
My privilege as a white man is to be unnoticed if I choose, because when I step into an elevator or walk through a store or pass a cop on the street, I'm an individual. No one looks at me and says, "Hmm—white guy there," because I'm the default setting. I'm not suspicious, I'm not a potential criminal, I ring no alarm bells in anyone's head. And that is a gift. Even as an adult, Barack Obama, the "articulate and bright and clean" Harvard-educated lawyer, had something in common with Trayvon Martin and every other 17-year-old black kid: the presumption of suspicion with which they found themselves treated. They couldn't just be themselves. To so many people, they were a type, and a bad one at that, or at least assumed to be of a lesser station. So a fellow guest at a posh party in 2003 could walk up to state Senator Obama and ask him to fetch the man a drink. Has that happened to you?
Privilege is also not worrying that the deeds of other people who are like you in some way will reflect poorly on you. As Jamelle Bouie wrote last week, at times like this, some conservatives will always bring up the idea of "black on black" crime as a justification for the presumption that young black men are criminals, but we never speak about "white on white" crime. The reason? When a white person robs a liquor store or beats someone up or commits insider trading, we see it as just a crime, not a crime that has anything to do with the whiteness of the perpetrator. Since white is the default setting, there's no such thing as white crime. Each white criminal is just himself.
And retaining your individuality means you're granted an exemption from some kinds of costs. Last week The Washington Post's Richard Cohen wrote a remarkable column arguing that it's perfectly reasonable to treat all black men like criminal suspects, since there are some black men who commit crimes. As Ta-Nehisi Coates noted, Cohen was "arguing for a kind of racist public safety tax" that black men should be forced to pay. Sure, most black men are perfectly law-abiding, but since some aren't, you sir are just going to have to put up with getting stopped and frisked, getting followed by store security, and getting pulled over even when you haven't been speeding. If you're white, that's a tax you will never have to pay, because you will be treated as an individual.
As a white person, I'll continue to enjoy this privilege almost no matter who I am or what I do. In my heart I could be the most kind-hearted humanitarian or the most vile sociopath. I could be assiduously law-abiding or a serial killer. I can dress in a suit or in torn jeans and a hoodie, and no one will react to me with fear or suspicion, because if they don't know me they will assume they know nothing. I am myself, nothing more or less. That's privilege.
Mon, 2013-07-22 14:38
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Mon, 2013-07-22 16:38
Hmmmm, rrhamilton, that's an interesting definition of privilege. Privilege is defined as "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people." In general, it refers to the advantages given to an empowered group and withheld from disempowered groups. Examples of privileged groups include people who are white, heterosexual, male, able-bodied and wealthy.
"White privilege" refers to the lump sum of advantages that white people have without having done anything to earn them: better access to healthcare and education, better pay for the same work, longer life expectancy, the ability to walk down the street without being profiled, etc, etc, etc. The list is nearly endless.
Though there are very occasional benefits to being a member of disempowered groups (non-white, homosexual, female, handicapped, impoverished, etc), those rare benefits are generally not referred to as privilege. So, yes, I suppose that one of the benefits of being female is that people generally aren't afraid of me when I follow them into an elevator. However, an occasional benefit doesn't rise to the standard required for true systemic privilege, hence the term "privilege" is generally reserved for the systemic benefits given to males, not females.
To answer your question, I think that some members of privileged groups do recognize their privilege and feel discomfort about it whereas many do not. One of the main components of privilege is the ability to choose whether or not to acknowledge its existence. As a white person, I can shrug my shoulders and say "Oh, well, I get unfair advantages, too bad" and then ignore it. Or, I can say "Wait, this isn't fair! I want to do something about it." A black person is forced to deal with his/her lack of privilege on a daily basis.
Clearly the author is recognizing some of his privilege and feeling discomfort. As a white female, yes, I recognize that certain assumptions are made about me that are different from the assumptions that are made about black men. Yes, I feel very uncomfortable about that.
Mon, 2013-07-22 21:00
Well, you didn't answer the question, which was whether you felt guilty about having the advantages that go with having two X chromosomes?
But you did say this:
"White privilege" refers to the lump sum of advantages that white people have without having done anything to earn them: better access to healthcare and education, better pay for the same work, longer life expectancy, the ability to walk down the street without being profiled, etc, etc, etc. The list is nearly endless.
First, by your standards, are ANY privileges "earned"? How did whites get their "privilege" if it wasn't earned -- was it randomly assigned? Is that how females got THEIR privilege, too -- random assignment?
"Better access to healthcare": I've never been in a doctor's office where the receptionist let the whites cut in line. Have you? What else to you mean by that term?
"Better access to education": Huh? You've clearly never been the parent of a white college applicant or you'd know this is the opposite of the truth. Or are you referring to primary and secondary education, and if so, why do whites have "better access" to those?
"Better pay for the same work": Why don't profit-motivated employers fire the whites and hire the non-whites, if the work is really the same and the expense is really lower? The same would apply to car dealers and dry cleaners who must HATE to see white customers since they supposedly pay less for better products and services, right?
"Longer life expectancy": Now you're getting into the identical "female privilege" again.
"The ability to walk down the street without being profiled": Whites are certainly profiled walking down the street, by criminals as potentially lucrative -- and in non-white neighborhoods, friendless -- victims.
Let me ask you this. There are about 40 million black people in America. But let's make that a more manageable number, say, 4 million. If you were black and the leader of all black people and could make them move with you, then what other country would you want to live in? In other words, in what country in the world would you rather be black than in the U.S.?
Tue, 2013-07-23 16:32
Your comparison is one of apples-to-oranges. The "female privilege" you describe is not privilege as much is it is an assumption which really isn't true - many "crazy" people are female.
Privilege is not preferential treatment - privilege is about access. Privilege also addresses universality. It can be argued that everyone has the right to higher education in the United States - a universal statement. The privileged class has more options available - often without merit, simply because they have, in the past rated the privilege. Your examples seem almost baiting - for instance, in a medical office the preferential treatment of a white person over a black person is not privilege but racism and prejudice. In that case privilege stems from the apparent access of a wider variety of medical options for the white over the black for any number of reasons - placement of treatment, cost of treatment, referral protocol from primary providers, etc.
One way to look at privilege is when one party simply says "why don't they just get over it" when someone talks about past discrimination. It is the "privilege" of the privileged class to have the others assimilate to them as opposed to the other direction.
Thu, 2013-07-25 10:13
How about child privilege and quadriplegic privilege and blind privilege? Do they feel guilty? They should- they aren't any better than blacks yet we don't view them as threats. As a white I don't feel guilty that blacks are singled out for abuse- I do acknowledge this as a shame and a burden on their lives.
Fri, 2013-07-26 20:42
nyscribbler wrote: "As a white I don't feel guilty that blacks are singled out for abuse- I do acknowledge this as a shame and a burden on their lives."
Ok, guilt serves no useful purpose if empathy and action are not part of the equation. So I am not impressed simply by your acknowledgement that you know blacks are singled out for "abuse.....this is a shame and a burden on their lives." Your intellectual "objectivity" speaks volumes: A lack of empathy? Were you subjected to systemic abuse as a white person, I'm sure you would react strongly in some way. Were you aware that whites have the highest rate of suicide in America? Just imagine if they had the added burden of racism to deal with...
I am black and quite aware that systemic racism has traumatized black people. There's a better word fitting those who seek to destroy the lives of others, economically or psychologically,etc: They are sociopaths. Understanding this truth has set many people free who would otherwise be burdened beyond reason by the imposition of racism on their lives.
Mon, 2013-07-22 18:44
There is a lot of unfairness in the world, in our culture, in life. We are born into this, against our will. The best advice I've ever gotten was to not have babies that I couldn't raise, guide, care for, pay for, teach extremely strong morals to, and be responsible for. It's not fair that I didn't get to have any and every baby I wanted to have an could have physically created. It's not fair that I have this conscience and constant concern about what neighborhood my children occupy, what friends they make, what influences they are subject to. It's not fair that I stopped after 2 kids and spent a lot of extra time and energy on them, time I could have spent working or playing. It's not fair that my kids have to dress and look as nice as possible to be considered non-threatening. It's not fair that giving birth is not the same as parenting, and that strong resilient parenting skills will never be required before anyone takes their baby home from the hospital. It's not fair that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and fires occur, but they do. Man, I am so glad I spent all that extra time with my kids to keep them smart, safe, sane, and not carrying around a chip. I have awesome kids, and it's not all luck.
Fri, 2013-07-26 20:55
The smugness of your comments...very interesting. Even though you make no racial insinuations, please don't imply you are the only person who has parented well.
You have two awesome kids....good for you. But it's not all due to brilliance.
Many things can happen outside of people's control including accidents and injuries that can change lives overnight.
"Life is unfair" you say? Ok. But you wouldn't be so smug about it all if your kids were singled out and harmed just because...they are different in some way.
I am black and have only one child. So even some black people have fewer kids than you.
The personal choices people make are quite different from systems of hierarchy developed over things people have no control over -- skin color -- that impose unfairness through systems from cradle to grave. And want to know something? Those who dig graves for others do not go unscathed themselves.
Tue, 2013-07-23 21:34
Ref your comment: "So a fellow guest at a posh party in 2003 could walk up to state Senator Obama and ask him to fetch the man a drink. Has that happened to you?"
Practically every overly proud West Point cadet on their way home from school in their uniform can tell a deflating story about how important they thought they were, only to be asked to pick up bags at the airport or bus station.
And when wearing a suit or shirt and tie that looked close to the store clerks, who hasn't been asked "where is the linen department?"
Yes, Mr. Waldman, it's a big racist, capitalist plot!
Wed, 2013-07-24 03:18
I regret to inform you that white is less & less right & there IS institutional discrimination against white males in both academia & state job offerings. My Anglo spouse, on the faculty of a state university, has been the target of threatening emails & threatening comments in open meetings by another faculty member (a minority) for several years! These items are on file. Neither the HR office nor the Equal Opportunity folks on campus will do anything about this problem because my husband is NOT A MINORITY, I.e., it is basically "open season" on him as far as the other faculty member is concerned (& the emails are distributed campus-wide on the faculty network). Since my husband is non-tenured, the other faculty member has set out with the express intent of "relieving him" of his job.
In another instance, shortly after my husband graduated with triple bachelors' degrees in history, archeology, & anthropology, he attempted to apply for a posted state museum job requiring 2 of those degrees. The secretarial staff at the state employment office, on hearing his qualifications, pulled the posting & refused to give him an application. He later learned that the job had been given to a young woman with NO college degree AFTER he had attempted to apply.
So, you see, white males are the new class against whom it is perfectly OK to discriminate. After all, they ALL must have been racists or something, at something point?---Or have "inherited guilt"?--Or what? Exactly why is it OK to do this?
Wed, 2013-07-24 14:08
Not that I expect Paul Waldman to pay any attention to this but I figured I'd try anyway.
White privilege is overblown. The reason non-whites and especially blacks are profiled as potential criminals is because they have much higher rates of crime, including violent crime, than whites do. When people bring up "white privilege" I ask them if Asians have privilege too because Asian people tend to make more money than whites and based on my experiences are not profiled as criminals by regular people or by police. Why? Could their low crime rates and generally civilized behavior have something to do with it?
Now I'm not saying white privilege doesn't exist, just that it's exaggerated. As a white person in the US I am privileged to live here. And guess what? I don't feel guilty about that at all. My white ancestors built and maintained a great country for me to live in. It isn't my fault that many non-whites don't feel the same way about their own country. Maybe they should do something about it instead of trying to make us feel guilty.
Of course there are a bunch of smaller advantages of being white in a majority white country, but that isn't so much white privilege as it is the privilege of being part of the majority. Japanese people for example benefit from being the majority in Japan. Indians are the majority in India. Arabs are the majority in Saudi Arabia. These countries I'm mentioning are not exactly known for their pleasant attitudes toward black people either, yet nobody gets on their backs or tries to make them feel bad for having privilege. They only do this to whites.
Fri, 2013-07-26 21:04
Your white ancestors aren't the only people who built this country. They stole land from Native Americans and from Mexico.
African-Americans helped built this country, but their income was stolen through 400 years of slavery.
Speaking of your crime statistics: You are discounting the high rates of crime, including violent crime, that whites are involved in -- and have done since the beginning of America. How did they slaughter otherwise peaceful Natives and African people who preferred non-violence?
Thu, 2013-07-25 11:21
We are all stereotyped. Ask a visible jew, muslim Sikh, or a white in a black or latino neighborhood. How about transgender or openly gay., or a woman. We all respond to stereotypes and in many cases we are the stereotypes and are subject to negative and often positive responses because of how we present ourselves. There is no getting away from it.
Sat, 2013-07-27 08:59
When I ride my Harley, dress in black leather, fingerless gloves, look rough, very unfriendly and dangerous, people avoid me. Are the profiling me? Yes! But it is I who chooses to dress like a biker and be unfriendly. People should be concerned. How do they know if my intentions are good (they are). Blacks commit crimes at a rate 7 times the rate of whites. You'd better believe I'm on alert! We live in the society that exists in reality - not a fairytale "never-neverland." Deal with it. It is what it is! Maybe if young black men quit dressing and acting like "gangstas." Just like I could stop dressing like a "biker," neither of us would be "profiled."
Sat, 2013-07-27 15:30
Um, most blacks dress very well and hope to be upwardly mobile. Those screwy numbers you stating are probably based on bad statistics. when you take into account the country is mostly White and Latino. We only make up about 12 percent of the population, and disproportionately we are thrown into jail for the same crimes that whites commit (petty crimes that are mostly drug related). Not only that, you need to check your history because last time I checked black men and women have only recently come out of slavery. It truly ended in the 1950's; while at the same time living in a (white) culture that has found other ways to enforce Jim crow laws (if you even know what those are) upon us, and treat us as lesser citizens. your obviously to far up on your high horse to be able to sympathize with a peoples who have had their entire culture stolen, bread against there will, and continuously beaten down and locked up because White Men are afraid of Black Mens power. Cause yes, we are beautiful, talented, strong and smart (your predecessors were afraid we would steal all the white women, creating a myth that we are dangerous animals and that white women are pure as freshly fallen snow, not). Don't forget that any culture that has been driven to the outskirts of society; any person that grows up in poverty is more likely to become a criminal. It is the nature of poverty and the lack of accessibility that causes this phenomenon. Without us (Negros) American culture would be even more bland and predictable ( I.e . fashion, music, science, art, sports ect...). think about it.
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A native of Hauppauge, N.Y., Danny Bonaventura '13 knew that RMU had a well-respected sport management program and a NCAA Division I football team. And after a visit to campus, he was sure that RMU was the place for him.
"I got a great feel for the family environment that exists among the RMU community, and I fell in love with the campus immediately."
Danny graduated in May and was a sport management major and a defensive back for the RMU Colonials football team. He was a recipient of an RMU Merit Scholarship, the Patriot Scholarship as a member of the Honors College, the David Synowka Endowed Sport Management Scholarship, and a scholarship that accompanied his Sport Management Student of the Year award (2011-12). He was also a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, Athletes in Action, and the Sport Management Association, which he served as president during his senior year.
Upon graduation, Danny got a job as a new business consultant with Spurs Sports and Entertainment in San Antonio, selling season ticket plans and group tickets for all three of their franchises: the Spurs (NBA), the Silverstars (WNBA), and the Rampage (AHL Hockey). After just eight months with the franchise, Danny was promoted to Rampage Sales Representative, overseeing season and group tickets for the hockey team.
Since he now works directly with the Rampage, Danny is able to enjoy all the Spurs games as a fan, including their fifth NBA title, which they achieved this year by defeating the Miami Heat.
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Danny credits his preparation for such a high-level position to his classes and professors at Robert Morris.
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Jason Richardson of the Suns recently was pulled over doing 90 in a 35 mph zone. Crazy thing is was his 3 yr old child was in the backseat. Here is the article
Jason Richardson is a mess, but I think he brings up a greater question for us all to ponder. Which franchise is in greater disarray: the Phoenix Suns or the Dallas Cowboys?
what is wrong with these guys. seriously. why do they get paid millions of dollars.
And the cowboys are crumbling and i love watching every second. TO is my favorite athlete of all time.
These guys are just horrible examples how to make dumb mistakes. One thing about TO is, is that you never hear anything bad about him.
Except for the occasional suicide attempt and every once in a while throwing his quarterback to the dogs. But you know you're pretty much right.
a very true and i heard he is having his own tv show on VH1. As for that kuncklehead J Rich he needs a sidekick like lil penny to mentor him
Yeah because he did wonders for Penny Hardaway's career. What Jason Richardson needs is to play alongside Shaq. Oh wait he does. Nevermind, he's a lost cause.


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Who's the expert on WDN tab behavior these days? I'm seeing that clicking a link to a particular tab from another page or an email sometimes causes the browser to display the correct tab but scroll to the bottom of the page, so user-friendliness takes a hit.
For most pages, it seems, linking to a tab makes it scroll to the bottom in FF 3.6 & 7 and Chrome 15 but scroll to just below the tabs in IE 7 & 8. (These observations are all via Windows--some Vista & some 7.) Examples:
But I also have pages that scroll to just below the tabs in all those browsers. Examples:
http://www.unl.edu/gradstudies/prospect ... ranscripts (scrolls somewhat lower in IE 8 )
http://www.unl.edu/mcnair/current.shtml#master (scrolls somewhat lower in FF 7)
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Jun 7, 2008
NXT Color Sorter
Below is a video of a brick sorter with the sensor. Read more about the sensor and the sorter here.
5 comments:
- Robotica said...
Impresive to see how many colors this sensor can detect.
Can you give a price estimate what this sensor will cost to build?
- Jun 7, 2008, 7:41:00 AM
- Laurens Valk said...
The only 'expensive' part was the chip, which costs about 3 dollars.
The sensor sockets cost 4,95 dollars per 5 and the other parts cost way below 50 cents each, so in total I guess it is close to $5 or $6
However, note that I only soldered the ic holder to the solder board, this means I can easily remove the chip and use it for another project, saving another 3 bucks :)
To get started you need to spend a little more, though, since you need soldering gear.
- Jun 7, 2008, 6:18:00 PM
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Very nice Blog post.
If you are going to remove solder joins can reuse - you should invest in a solder sucker. It is a hand held vacuum thing and does not cost much - and it is a great tool.
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I am not going to remove any solder, the chip is simply 'clicked' into its holder, so I can remove it whenever I want.
Only the holder is soldered to the pcb.
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'It all works out,' said Granny Weatherwax, 'somewhere. Your young wizard knows that, he just puts daft words around it. He'd be quite bright, if only he'd look at what's in front of him.'
He wants to stay here for a while,' said Ridcully gloomily. he flicked another pebble into the depths.
'Seems fascinated by the stones. I can't say no, can I? The king is all for it. He says other kings have always had fools, so he'll try having a wise man around, just in case it works better.'
Granny laughed.
and there's young Diamanda going to be up and about any day now,' she said.
'What do you mean?'
'Oh, nothing. That's the thing about the future. It could turn out to be anything. And everything.'
Following the events of Lords and Ladies, Ponder excitedly asks Mustrum Ridcully for permission to stay on in Lancre, ostensibly to carry out field-study on the Dancers and their "iron-loving" properties. Ridcully, who has noticed a certain understanding growing up between Stibbons and Diamanda, and who in this respect is older and wiser, sighs and grants the request.
raisindot wrote:Generally, there seem to be two schools of thought on the extent and reach of Granny's 'headology,' particularly in L&L and Carpe Jugulum. The first school thinks that while she does some manipulation of people, that some of the situations she gets into where she appears to be powerless or shows self-doubt are genuine.
The second school believes that Granny knows exactly what she is doing at every step of the way, plans every kind of manipulation (including feigning her own weakness and vulnerability) knowing full well that she could beat each book's main nemesis in a full-frontal magical assault but doesn't do so because she knows that eventually she won't be around to take on these enemies and that part of her responsibility as the most powerful witch in the world is to use headology to empower the less powerful to work together to try to confront and defeat these same enemies. There's a lot of this "school vs. school" debate in the Carpe Jugulum discussion.
In Lords and Ladies, if you subscribe to the Second School, you'd believe that every one of Granny's actions, including feigning her 'capture' by the Elf Queen and her apparent weakness in being able to escape from them, was carefully planned for the sole purpose of motivating the Lancreans (including Magrat) to take matters into their own hands to defeat the Elves.
It's an interesting debate, and it's to Pterry's mastery of this material at this point in his career that both sides of the debate could find evidence to support their opinions.
raisindot wrote:I'd suggest the L&L is, arguably, Pterry's first DW book that makes extensive use of allegory (one might argue that Small Gods does the same).
The Elves represent the tendency of those in power (monarchies, aristocrats, religious institutions, feudal lords, oligarchies, dictatorships) to use their totally unfounded aura of 'superiority' of oppress the masses. Throughout history, the rich and powerful successfully portrayed themselves as being smarter, richer, better, stronger, and more important than those who weren't, whether it was through slavery, religious indoctrination, ghettoization, superstition, propaganda, social darwinism, or just plain old terrorization. And, throughout history, the masses were totally browbeaten into believing that the rich and powerful knew what was best for them.
While plenty of this kind of 'old school' oppression exists today, in the 20th century the power of the media and the commercialization of our culture have largely replaced it as the main 'oppressive' force today. Advertising, the cult of celebrity, the media and society's endless coddling of the rich and beautiful have replaced good old dogma and torture as a means of making 'ordinary' people feel ugly, stupid, powerless in comparison to the empty-headed and gorgeous supermodels, movie and TV stars, pop stars, 'reality TV vermin,' jet setters and euro-and-america-trash that constantly fill the pages of tabloids and infest the TV screen.
In Lords & Ladies, the elves symbolize society's emphasis on the superiority of the rich, famous and beautiful. Their whole purpose is to make 'regular people' (the citizens of Lancre) defer to their glamor, give in to their feelings of inferiority, and be trapped in jealousy for illusions that can't have. Like the millions of people who are addicted to reality TV, read the tabloids, and follow celebrity Tweets, the Lancreans are seduced by the empty 'glamor' of the superficially beautiful because the latter make them feel that have no self-worth, just as the media does today.
The theme of 'iron' and 'the land' that permeates the story represents the values that the people are slowly losing as they become seduced by the new. Verence's attempts to 'modernize' Lancre by looking to Ankh Morpork for books on science (and other things!) and his attempts to craft the perfect 'Lancre army knife.' The young witch aspirants' contempt for the 'traditional' witchcraft practiced by Nanny and Granny in favor of the showy and superficial. While the Lancreans still largely live in traditional ways, they are looking outward and are losing their connection to the 'iron' that keeps them grounded in tradition. It's this gradual forgetfulness of tradition--this loss of their iron connection--that makes them forget how bad it was the last time the elves invaded, and, instead, their collective memories only remember the beauty of the elves.
The only people (other than Granny) who aren't affected by the elves' glamor are those who still maintain their strong connections to tradition and the land. Hodges Arrghhh has no capacity to think beyond his little world of raptors. The beekeeper only thinks about his hives. These are people whose are so grounded in the old ways that nothing else--changes in kings, invading forces--truly affects them in any way.
In the end, it is only when Granny is able to remove the seductiveness and repressiveness of glamor from Magrat--and help her regain her own connection to her inner strength--that the elves can be defeated.
Pterry's allegorical lesson here is quite clear: If you let yourself get seduced by the false aura superiority that the rich, beautiful, famous and powerful--and their allies in government, business and the media--cast upon you, you will surrender your own self-worth and any chances of personal fulfillment.
raptornx01 wrote:But people choose those things. they aren't forced to buy or watch. there is no magic aura sweeping the land that brainwashes people into being vein and shallow and stupid. they do it to themselves. and they (the ordinary people) have no problem turning around and doing it to others, prefering beauty to quality, wanting soulmates but only looking for a pretty shell. and then when the pretty ones turn out to be the elves, devouring what is good in the world, the victims cry for sanity, realizing all along as they lay broken and bleeding on the floor that they should have sought the real humanity underneath, for 5 seconds, then they turn around and look for the elves again.
raptornx01 wrote:but here's the thing, and where this falls apart. they maintain strong connections to the land, NOW. But they didn't always. The contempt the young witches feel has nothing to do with some kind of loss of tradition, they may be looking outward but they looking into the world with the eyes of the outsider, seeing the flaws and knowing they can fix them. everyone around them is old and set in their ways and are like the frog in the pot of slowly heating water going down the path to eventually boiling to death without noticing. they, infact, are looking at the world with the eyes of youth, the same eyes everyone has at some point.
raptornx01 wrote:also we see what she could have been. the theme of what might have been is here too, as we saw Grandmother Weatherwax, here is where we see how granny turned away from the queen, but in Diamanda we see what would have happened if she didn't.
raptornx01 wrote:to me this is Pterry looking at his own life. and what might have been.
raisindot wrote:Yes, people do make those choices, and people are to blame if they make choices that favor style over substance. But in the Roundworld, the influence of the media or dogma or authority is the equivalent of the elves' magic--it is seductive, and often subconsciously absorbed. Part of the reason the Lacreans fall victim to the elves' magic is because they all know the stories of the elves in the past and are susceptible to the manipulation of these beautiful superbeings in a way they aren't by figures of authority (such as Verence).
I think your statement proves my original point. Verence and the young witches (and many of the Lancreans whose children have moved to Ankh Morpork or regularly bring back worthless trinkets and junk from that big city) see the Ramtops traditions--including old school witching--as being old, outdated, and irrelevant. By consciously breaking rebelling against these traditions--grounded in iron and the power of the land--they become more susceptible to the seduction of the new and superficial, making them easy prey for the elves' manipulation.
Precisely. Had young Granny been seduced by the Queen's offer, the elves probably would have taken over the Ramtops, with Granny as their vessel. But she didn't, precisely because she had strong 'iron' ties to the land and to the witching traditions, which required young witches to gain power through 'learning,' rather than having powers magically bestowed upon them. Diamanda is like the pre-teen girls of today, who dress up like tarts at age 9 and try to act like adults, even though their bodies are brains are not ready for it, in good part because they are heavily influenced by the images of pop stars and other 'idols' who sex their way across TV screens.
That's an interesting statement. I'm trying to wonder what other kind of 'quanta' would have offered Pterry a life that would have been better off than the one he was living at the time he wrote L&L when he was already a successful, highly popular writer, happily married man and father, and (presumably) quite wealthy.
he was one of the world's most successfuly fantasy wrtiers
raptornx01 wrote:[raisindot wrote:That's an interesting statement. I'm trying to wonder what other kind of 'quanta' would have offered Pterry a life that would have been better off than the one he was living at the time he wrote L&L when he was already a successful, highly popular writer, happily married man and father, and (presumably) quite wealthy.
he was one of the world's most successfuly fantasy wrtiers
Who said better? anyway wealth isn't the end all be all (and has problems of its own). and writing may not have been the only thing he was interested in. and the one you marry isn't always the one you wanted.
"I'm 'me' here and now - none of the other 'mes' matter because that's not the me I am."
raptornx01 wrote:But, the media exists as an extension of the people. its the media that is influenced, not the other way around. The media simply flows with the prevailing winds.
raptornx01 wrote:the Lancrastians on the otherhand didn't "give" anything. it was taken. the Elves glamour FORCES people to see themselves as inferior, unworthy, and submissive.
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How Should We Approach Gun Control?
As many pointed out last Friday, after the shooting in Aurora, Colorado, politics is one of the most important ways in which a democratic society deals with thorny issues—and the regularity of mass killings in the United States is a complicated issue that deserves a political lens. As David Waldman put it, "If you live under a regime of self-government, everything is political. Even the decision to decline to address things politically."
With that said, here are a few things we know about gun violence in this country. There are an estimated 270 million privately owned guns in the U.S, and the total rate of gun ownership is 88.8 firearms per 100 people. Overall, there are guns in 40 to 45 percent of American households, and nearly a third of adults own a firearm. This makes the United States the most gun-saturated country in the world.
We also have a high rate of gun-related violence. There were 16,272 homicides in 2008. Of those, more than 58 percent—or 9,484—were committed with a firearm. In 2005, guns were used in more than half of all suicides, and that same year, nearly 800 people died in gun-related accidents.
To many people, particularly liberals, the solution is simple—we need more gun control. Unfortunately, as much as it seems like there ought to be a relationship between the number of guns and the amount of gun violence, there isn't. Or rather, if there is a relationship, it's incredibly difficult to ascertain. According to the most recent literature, various case studies show a positive relationship between violence and gun ownership, but there's little evidence of a causal relationship. Does high gun ownership result in greater violence, or are violent people more likely to own guns? Do guns reduce the barrier to committing violence, or would violence happen regardless, with a different weapon?
Likewise, there's no direct relationship between guns and crime. A community with lots of guns is no more safe than one with few guns, and vice-versa. There's certainly a relationship between guns and safety—gun injuries require guns, after all—but there's only so much you can do about that fact. Indeed, as John Sides notes at The Monkey Cage, violent crime and gun ownership are at a lower point now than they've been in recent history. Here's what violence in America looks like from 1960 to 2010:
And here's what gun ownership looks like during the same period:
Reducing the number of guns in circulation might reduce everyday crime in the aggregate, but given the degree to which mass killings are sui generis, it's not clear that they would do much to prevent Aurora-style shootings. Other than a speeding ticket, the gunman, a 24-year-old man, had a clean record. Barring a ban on privately owned firearms, there was nothing that could have kept him from purchasing a gun. Indeed, given the extent to which the United States is—and has always been—saturated with guns, he could have easily gone to another state to purchase a gun. And if he had a criminal record, he could easily purchase one off of the black market. If someone is determined to kill a lot of people, there is little that can stop him.
The simple fact is that the issue of gun control is much thornier than it looks. There's no way to know if greater gun control will actually have an effect on crime or the incidence of mass killings. It's unsatisfying, but "we need more gun control" is probably the wrong lesson to take from the Aurora shootings.
But that's not to say that we shouldn't talk about guns. Even if there isn't much we can do, policy-wise, to stop mass killings, we still ought have a public conversation about the gun culture, and the immense power of the gun lobby. In doing so, however, we should know and understand the limits of our ability to change things.
Mon, 2012-07-23 09:35
I suggest you apply occams razor to the problem. Easy access, more powerful weapons, easier to kill, more dead people. Now that wasn't difficult.
You might want to look also at the rate of gun related homicides and deaths in other countries to get an idea of the relationship.
Mon, 2012-07-23 13:50
In essence, we are trying to prove a counter-factual. Yes, short of a prohibition on private gun ownership, would have been able to buy a gun possible several guns and maybe even everything he did actually buy. However, tighter gun controls could have meant that:
- He wouldn't have been able to legally purchased the assault rifle, as would have been the case a decade ago.
- He wouldn't have been able to buy the quantity of ammunition and firearms that he did in the time frame that he did, at least without raising some red flags.
- If it hadn't been legal, he could have been caught in the process of committing the crime of purchasing any/all of it illegally.
Obviously, he put some significant planning into this, however, stretching out the time span in which he could legally amass the kind of firepower he did increases the opportunity for some intervening event that could have prevented or reduced the severity of the event.
(I read that his mom was certain when that it was her son who had done it as soon as she heard about it. I point this out not to blame her in the least but to point out that people who knew him knew he posed a risk and given more time and/or more warning, they might have had the opportunity to intervene).
More importantly, as these sui generis mass these shootings are, we still have far more than other OEDC countries. Obviously, you can't eliminate all of these shootings as the mass shootings in relatively less violent OEDC countries indicate. However, we tolerate a far greater magnitude of both mass shootings and run-of-the-mill single/double/triple shootings simply because it is "complicated" to draw a straight line from the availability of guns to gun violence when you just compare gun availability and crime in the US, particularly without accounting other factors that we know contribute to crime and violence. For example, not controlling for the crack epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s is a glaring oversight here.
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Wed, 2012-07-25 21:05
The author is comparing apples and oranges. Few advocates are calling for "gun control" if it means taking away the guns. Rational people are saying that Americans do not need to privately own assault weapons with 100 round clips. Sure, crazies will be able to handguns or shotguns and will be able to shoot innocent people, but they won't be able to fire off so many rounds in such a short time. Forcing this shooter to stop and reload his shotgun might have enabled some victims to flee or fight back.
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This morning, I wrote on an emerging Republican plan—in swing states won by President Obama—to rig presidential elections by awarding electoral votes to the winner of the most congressional districts. Because Democratic voters tend to cluster in highly-populated urban areas, and Republican voters tend to reside in more sparsely populated regions, this makes land the key variable in elections—to win the majority of a state's electoral votes, your voters will have to occupy the most geographic space.
In addition to disenfranchising voters in dense areas, this would end the principle of "one person, one vote." If Ohio operated under this scheme, for example, Obama would have received just 22 percent of the electoral votes, despite winning 52 percent of the popular vote in the state.
For this reason, I didn't expect Republicans to go forward with the plan—the risk of blowback is just too high. My skepticism, however, was misplaced. In Virginia, a local news station reports that just this afternoon, a state Senate subcommittee recommended a bill to end Virginia's winner-take-all system and apportion its 13 electoral votes by congressional district.
Unlike similar proposals in Pennsylvania and Michigan, this one wouldn't award the remaining electoral votes to the winner (Virginia has 11 districts). Rather, the winner of the most congressional districts would get the final two votes. If this were in effect last year, Obama would have gotten just 4 of the state's votes, despite winning 51 percent of its voters.
The bill's sponsor, Republican Senator Charles W. "Bill" Carrico, says the change is necessary because Virginia's urbanized areas can outvote rural regions, weakening their political strength. In other words, Carrico thinks winning land is more important than winning people when it comes to presidential elections.
It should be said that this scheme, if carried out on a large scale, will guarantee an explosion of recounts. In any district where there is a narrow margin between the two candidates, there will be every incentive to challenge the results. Republicans present this as a way to streamline elections, but in reality, it would complicate them, and drag out the process for weeks—if not months. It would be Florida in the 2000 election, multiplied by 435.
It should also be said, again, that this constitutes a massive disenfranchisement of African American and other nonwhite voters, who tend to cluster near urban areas. When you couple this with the move on Monday to redraw the state's electoral maps—eliminating one state senate district and packing black voters into another, diluting their strength—it's as if Virginia Republicans are responding to Obama's repeat victory in the state by building an electoral facsimile of Jim Crow.
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There's another reason to end this "voter disenfranchisement" farce---it's ILLEGAL. No, not because it disenfranchises voters---that's just EVIL. ILLEGAL, though, was that the redistricting was rammed through overnight WITHOUT THE 24-HOUR NOTICE THAT RE-DISTRICTING ALWAYS REQUIRES IN VIRGINIA. THAT'S what makes it illegal. The State Supreme Court should declare the re-districting ILLEGAL BECAUSE NO NOTICE WAS GIVEN. And should they fail in that, then the US Supreme Court should take up the matter REAL QUICK. Or we'll be left without a country.
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Thu, 2013-01-24 14:50
I really can't believe that this kind of bill is being considered in multiple states. I thought, in the past decade, we were heading the opposite direction. It seemed like people were finally starting to think about doing away with the electoral college. I can even understand some of the arguments in favor of the electoral college, but this makes no sense. It shows how quickly people are willing to give up on democracy in favor of winning.
Thu, 2013-01-24 17:39
Not trying to be dramatic here, but I hope the GOP has given some thought to the "law of unintended consequences." In this instance say that a Democratic Presidential candidate won the popular vote in VA, MI, and PA and the total of those three states electoral votes were sufficient to elect the Democrat president.
But wait, if this nonsense is permitted to stand let's say the votes are allocated according to some GOP formula that ignores the popular vote and allocates electoral votes based upon gerrymandered districts that are essentially rigged to always favor the Rs. Because of the allocation in these three states the R candidates for president win in the electoral college.
How many times would a presidential election have to be stolen in this manner to tee off enough people that some might ponder as one GOP candidate once put it "Second Amendment" remedies? I mean, do you really think people are going to remain quiet and passive while their government is literally and repeatedly stolen from the popular and majority will of the people? This is how revolutions begin.
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Had they been in place for this past election, Romney could have won depending on the states.
That's how scary this plan is. Romney could have won the election despite losing the popular vote by 4 points. That's taking democracy and kicking it straight in the nards.
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Pulled the bottom bracket out of the OCR to figure out why its noisy. Cant find anything particular wrong with it, might be movement between the BB housing and the covers that hold it in place. I'll clean and grease everything and put it back in and see what happens.
Sticker on the BB says;
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on the square taper is stamped A113
Any opinions on this BB ?
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In what way is it noisy? It could just be that you've worn the poor thing out. If you've had water in there you might have grit in there causing a grinding noise.
I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
It's squeaked ever since it was band new, squirting some oil in each side seemed to stop the problem temporarily and after a while you got use to the noise and ignored it. But it irritates other riders. Basically its a fault with that particular model, as I've seen it reported time and time again.
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Are you sure it's not the bearing in the cartridge that's gone? Examine the cups carefully and see if there's any wear marks.
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I had a similar problem with a Power Pro BB, I just took it down to the LBS and purchased a new equivalent Shimano one for about $30.00. Of course the most impartant measurement is never on the bracket and that is the width of the thing from end to end, thats why you take the old one in(or measure it) when purchasing the new one.
I could see wear marks in the cups and what appeared to be wear on the outside of the sealed casing.
Greased everything and put it back together. If it continues to squeak, I'll buy a new one rather than waste any more time on it.
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$30 is a bargain, can't get them that cheap mail order.
I suspect that "Power Pro BB" = <something I'd better not type>
I think its 113mm, based on the stampings. It is a triple and they are a little wider.
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Also suggest that you check the torque spec from Shimano. If components are not tightened adequately, your leg power may just be enough to distort it to cause problems.
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Could it be that there's something out of spec in terms of dimension eg. Cartridge BB? The other possibility is a bent axle.
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I'd go for a new one Mike, the old one would be flogged out in the 4 odd years you've had your OCR.
IIRC, 115mm is standard spindle length for a triple.
...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
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So A113 must refer to 113mm
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Could be Mike Why not just take it to the LBS and ask for a replacement. At least it's not Italian threaded
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That's what I'd do. After stuffing about with bbs a bit this year, the easy way is to walk in with a frame in one hand and a set of cranks in the other.
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OK, took it for a spin and it still squeaked like hell, so while I was out I picked up a bottom bracket for $35. The sticker says;
Sealed Cartridge Unit
and on the box is hand written 112.5
Think I can survive the 0.5mm reduction
Of more interest is that the thread on the (right) drive side is part of the unit rather than being a separate component, so the unit is fixed in better. On the (left) non drive side, there's a plastic threaded cup - interesting. BTW the bolts are going to be chucked they are simply hex bolts, I'll use the exisiting allen key ones with rubber washers, I've had nothing but trouble with hex bolts in the past.
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Did you measure the axle length on the original unit? My understanding is that triples require 115mm axle length too.
Check out Sheldon Brown's page and the numerous tables. Maybe you can make something out of that. I am having difficulty.
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I think that Mike should be OK - there are 109, 113 and 115 'length' bottom brackets and (I think) they are for dual chain ring (road), triple chain ring (road) and triple chain ring (mtb) respectively.
ps. after another check, the UN26 comes in lots of other lengths too.
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OK after a mammoth effort I have fixed the squeak. Those of you who have ridden with me know what squeak I'm talking about.
1. Put the new BB in. Test ride - the squeaks still there UH!!!!!! OK, it still squeaks if I stand and it still squeaks if I ride no hands, it only squeaks when I pedal. I fix 2 other known squeaks, that being the seat post and the other being the steam, just to make sure that their noise is not confusing the issue.
2. Swap the pedals. Still squeaks. mmm, it might be a broken frame.
3. Inspect the frame carefully. No visible cracks. Can't be the cleats, as the don't squeak on the beast and the squeak has survived 2 pairs of pedals.
4. Ride with no shoes on, just to prove its not the cleats. OK whats left, it only happens with pedalling, only the chain and the rear wheel left.
5. Pull the rear wheel out, take off the cassette, try in vain to get to the sealed bearings. Grease the skewer. Put engine oil on every possible crack and seal. Reassemble and test. AND VOLA, the squeak has gone.
BTW, I don't feel bad about replacing the BB, it was crap from day one and had squeaking problems from day one (different rear wheel in those days), its done a stack of K's and was probably long in the tooth.
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So what was the source of the squeak? Are you suggesting it came from the rear hub all along? Engine oil in the hub? It'll be a dirt magnet.
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Yip, it was coming from the rear hub when power was applied.
Your've heard the noise, sounded like bottom bracket didn't it.
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If that's the case, then is it possible that the rear hub bearing is shot? A bit of engine oil may be just temporary. Well, just glad that you've sorted it all out. Maybe there's a new wheel in the near future. Anyway, can now look forward to riding next to you again.
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