| Oh, good. It's not just me. > Preface: As a white, heterosexual, cis, male, I’m granted, from birth, an extraordinary amount of privilege This is crazy, intellectually debilitating blabber. And just wrong on a blog[1]. We already allowed lawyers and CYA politicians to slap warning labels on everything (despite the fact that it's counter-productive[2]). Are we now going to put disclaimers on private blogs? Or is it like a weird way to brag? "I'm not affected by any common affliction." (You forgot
"able-bodied" BTW which is much more important that those other things.) Better yet, "I, being of sound mind and body do hereby publish this blogpost." [1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/against-disclai.html [2] http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/9/1842 |
Would you care to elaborate on what's crazy and intellectually debilitating about the sentence you quoted? I know people that would agree completely with that sentence, so I'd be curious to hear your perspective and why you feel it's wrong.