YOU SMARTY PANTS READERS BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR PRIVILEGE – AT 11:29 A.M. ET:  We really are terrible, just terrible.  Why, a university says so.  The latest in fashionable research.  A pop quiz tomorrow.  From Daily Caller: 

The University of Iowa’s student newspaper has announced the discovery of a special privilege which intelligent people acquire as an accident of birth. This new privilege — called “cognitive privilege” — functions in essentially the same way as white privilege.

The Daily Iowan revealed the discovery of this new privilege earlier this week.

Garden-variety white privilege “is an important topic that deserves a public discussion,” the op-ed on “cognitive privilege” explains, but it is also “prudent to at least mention the wider concept contained therein: that of privilege itself.”

Privilege in general is “the receipt of certain benefits wholly through accident of birth and it is “undeniable that privilege itself is a reality,” the student newspaper explains.

As with skin color and much else, Daily Iowan author Dan Williams argues, people have no control over how smart they are. Life is a huge cosmic lottery full of winners and losers.

Cognitive privilege is one of “many kinds of privilege besides white privilege.”

Also, Williams declares, robots will wipe out manual labor jobs but will somehow not affect jobs available to members of a special cognitive elite.

Damn bigoted robots!

“Thus, the accident of having been born smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did absolutely nothing to earn. Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.”

COMMENT:  I'm embarrassed already.  Not that I think I'm smart.  I don't want that privilege.  I never earned it.  But if I am smart, I will just have to be more sensitive toward the ignorant, the unprivileged, the dense.  I will start by being kind to liberals.

July 30,  2017