Effie's at it again.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210676180 Eff'in Effie black is back race hustling with this apocalyptic analogy. First commeth the
blacklash. (Du_wipipo sick of the shtick).
EffieBlack (9,193 posts)
Remember back in school when a kid showed up at school with a broken leg and crutches?
And everybody thought it was so cool and they grabbed his crutches and took turns walking around on them pretending they, too, had a broken leg?
And the kid who had really broken his leg just sat and watched everybody playing with his crutches, and shook his head because the crutches had gotten old a long time ago and he wished he didn’t need them because they stopped being fun about 30 seconds after the doctor gave them to him. And now his armpits were chapped and his arms ached and his fingers were cramped. And his cast itched and his leg hurt like hell. He wished he could not have a broken leg and not need those damned crutches and he could just get up and run around and play like everyone else. But he couldn’t move two feet without them because his leg was all jacked up.
And he really needed to go to the bathroom, but his friends were having so much fun playing with his crutches that they didn’t realize they weren’t a toy and that he really needed them just to get around, something they could do without crutches and without even thinking about it. And he was both annoyed and amused that they were so eager to use his crutches when they didn’t need them at all, they didn’t understand that crutches weren’t toys, and they didn’t appreciate how awesome it was NOT to need crutches just to get to the damned toilet.
That’s what the great 2018 DU Wypipo Drama reminds me of ..
Que the adorning hordes.
mcar (22,057 posts)
1. Perfect analogy!
Anyone know who coined the term WYPIPO at the DUmp? Anyone really care?
Response to EffieBlack (Original post)
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:54 PM
tazkcmo (5,869 posts)
2. I don't know this word
But am well acquainted with the Drama. Your post has reminded me that I need more popcorn. Thnx!
Say now, this is no way to treat Effin' Effie!!
Response to EffieBlack (Original post)
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:56 PM
Blue_true (5,441 posts)
3. I don't know Effie. I understand your analogy as much as I understand
a rainbow colored, unicorn mouse. I am slow today, do you have another analogy that may work for me?
Good one spudsworth. Good one.
Response to EffieBlack (Original post)
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:57 PM
mokawanis (3,261 posts)
4. how did he break his leg?
tripping over a dead horse?
White Privilege,
the new and improved white man's burden. (props to Kipling
https://www.shmoop.com/white-mans-burden/poem-text.html) WYDUpipo are getting a bit sick of Effin' black pipo's
Well, some but not all.
Response to mokawanis (Reply #4)
Wed May 30, 2018, 10:01 PM
DonCoquixote (12,582 posts)
7. ha ha ha
it is not a dead horse, unlike the dead kids that get killed because A) a certain group always lets Cops get away with shooting unarmed kids and B) that same groups loves that ar-15's so much that they are willing to let their kid get shot up in schools by kids, who, oddly enough, happen to be of the same complexion.
DonCroquette in for the BLM score (black lies matter to DUpipo)
Response to mokawanis (Reply #4)
Wed May 30, 2018, 10:04 PM
EffieBlack (9,193 posts)
8. That's pretty funny
Response to EffieBlack (Reply #8)
Wed May 30, 2018, 10:36 PM
mokawanis (3,261 posts)
12. It was there so I took it
but I hope it doesn't lead anyone to think I don't recognize what privilege is and how it plays out in our society.
Response to EffieBlack (Original post)
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:59 PM
DonCoquixote (12,582 posts)
5. wypipo is a term people used
because they had a problem that needed a term. The kid has crutches because he needed a tool, but the kids that play with the crutches do not realize these are not toys for the kid, but tools.
Response to EffieBlack (Original post)
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:59 PM
LuvLoogie (3,996 posts)
6. Whenever I see a wypipo thread or read a wypipo column, this always pops into my head...
{video link} https://youtu.be/vDYCVfubdr4
Should any DUmmie
ever use the phrase 'this always pops into my head...'???
Caught the next one before the delete?? A one post wonder may soon go under the ban hammer. Effie got major MOJO or is it Domo?
Adiaphron (1 post)
27. There is another important term to consider.
After reading numerous threads about this general topic, many generated by you, and also the comments, I decided to sign up and suggest something that may help. There are many professionals who can treat the condition that seems to be presenting itself here.
Some of the more relevant details of what psychologists and psychiatrists identify as “injustice collecting” (the individuals are known as “injustice collectors”:
Injustice collecting allows us to avoid responsibility for our circumstances. Self-pity garners attention and sympathy from others.
The injustice collector attempts to regain perceived loss of all power by using the attention and sympathy to manipulate others into conceding to the injustice collector, in an effort to accommodate the alleged victim.
The tendency to itemize every unfair knock we've ever suffered is known as injustice collecting. Sometimes the injustices are personal, as in, "My boss unfairly promoted Rick over me." This kind of self-talk leads to anger. At other times, the catalogued outrages lead to overwrought generalizations, such as, "Nothing ever goes well; this is too unfair." This type of thinking leads to hopelessness and rage.
Enough grudge holding and soon you'll see more iniquity than actually exists. The injustice collector becomes a trigger-happy perceiver.
This article offers more about the condition: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/20061/injustice-collecting
Thank you and have a nice day.
Another important thing to consider: If it walks like a duck....
ck4829 (20,088 posts)
28. And another important term to consider Is System Justification.
System justification is a social psychology term of art that designates any motivational tendency to defend, bolster, or rationalize existing social, economic, and political arrangements.
It is conceptualized as a response tendency possessed by many, or perhaps most, members of society to see aspects of the overarching social system as good, fair, and legitimate. Consequently, alternatives to the status quo are often derogated or avoided for ideologically defensive reasons. In other words, system justification is an inherently conservative inclination to preserve “the way things are,” sometimes even at the expense of objective social interests (Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004).
System justification allows us to ignore disparities and injustices, they're "OK". "They're just in your head you see?" "You're just causing trouble by pointing things out."
System justification simply needs to be recognized in most cases for healing and liberation from it to begin:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470672532.wbepp273
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/without-prejudice/201702/system-justification-why-people-buy-social-inequality
And now for our "Look at me." post of the thread.
Response to ck4829 (Reply #28)
Thu May 31, 2018, 08:05 AM
WePurrsevere (20,541 posts)
34. +1 (Thanks for the memory jog) nt