Check it, and check your privilege while you're at it.
This is a real email sent out by Johns Hopkins' CDO:
She says a few things about MLK, who she obviously disagrees with on many issues — mostly the "content of their character" bit — and then the good stuff comes, which I'll give to you in full because this website points out things that should be satire.
Diversity Word of the Month
Privilege is a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group. Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups. In the United States, privilege is granted to people who have membership in one or more of these social identity groups:
- White people
- Able-bodied people
- Heterosexuals
- Cisgender people
- Males
- Christians
- Middle or owning class people
- Middle-aged people
- English-speaking people
Privilege is characteristically invisible to people who have it. People in dominant groups often believe they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to these privileges if only they worked to earn them. In fact, privileges are unearned and are granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want those privileges or not, and regardless of their stated intent.
So there you have it. White people, able-bodied people, heterosexuals, cisgender people, males, Christians, "middle or owning class people," middle-aged people, and my all-time favorite, English-speaking people. You're all privileged and it doesn't matter what your story is. It would only matter if you, say, switched genders or became gay or whatever Gen Z is doing these days to exclude themselves from the privileged class.
This is an esteemed university feeding us this jargon, and it reads like The Babylon Bee.
Welcome to 2024!
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