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>>What would feminists know about a non-feminist man's perspective on marriage and fatherhood? >What would someone who doesn't even seem to understand the conce

>>What would feminists know about a non-feminist man's perspective on marriage and fatherhood? >What would someone who doesn't even seem to understand the concept of cultural privilege have to add to a discussion about cultural privilege? I think what we seem to keep pointing out is that: the idea of cultural privilege is bullshit. It hasn't been proven. It doesn't exist. They won't even give us a solid definition that we could apply a scientific method. Therefore, any knowledge of the subject is moot. And, you ought to realize that the fact that you sit around thinking of ways to describe the chip on your shoulder is what's keeping you from this "privilege", not that someone has a wealth of opportunities that you do not.

vacri 9y ago
There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up. > They won't even give us a solid definition that we could apply a scientific method. Therefore, any knowledge of the subject is moot. Geez, don't ever ask about a bus route in a new town. The person isn't going to be able to do a blind trial with a null hypothesis in order to tell you that the route 5 goes downtown, so you can't trust them. Seriously though, you're talking nonsense. Cultural privilege has been shown time and time again. Hell, the whole 'colonialism' episode in global history revolved around the idea.
- glenra 9y ago
  > There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up. IIRC, that study finding didn't survive the replication crisis - the most recent resume studies didn't find bias against "non-white-sounding" names. An optimistic interpretation of the discrepancy is that the earlier studies had picked low-class "black-sounding" names. It's hard to do this kind of study cleanly since names don't merely signify race, they also signify other things like socioeconomic status and age so to do it right you'd need to carefully validate that the specific names used don't differ in implications other than race; I don't think that has really been done yet. (more here: http://datacolada.org/51 http://datacolada.org/51 )

vacri 9y ago

There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up. > They won't even give us a solid definition that we could apply a scientific method. Therefore, any knowledge of the subject is moot. Geez, don't ever ask about a bus route in a new town. The person isn't going to be able to do a blind trial with a null hypothesis in order to tell you that the route 5 goes downtown, so you can't trust them. Seriously though, you're talking nonsense. Cultural privilege has been shown time and time again. Hell, the whole 'colonialism' episode in global history revolved around the idea.

glenra 9y ago
> There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up. IIRC, that study finding didn't survive the replication crisis - the most recent resume studies didn't find bias against "non-white-sounding" names. An optimistic interpretation of the discrepancy is that the earlier studies had picked low-class "black-sounding" names. It's hard to do this kind of study cleanly since names don't merely signify race, they also signify other things like socioeconomic status and age so to do it right you'd need to carefully validate that the specific names used don't differ in implications other than race; I don't think that has really been done yet. (more here: http://datacolada.org/51 http://datacolada.org/51 )