Privilege wielded as a weapon against privilege.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

If patriarchy insists that we conform to a specific framework for our conversation, then we will use that framework as a scaffolding as we climb up to tear it down.

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[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Good oil' Sir Patrick.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Like a sir.

[trog.livejournal.com]

So people don't take Obama seriously? OK.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

This could be the perfect opening for a discussion of the various forms of privilege and how it manifests itself through the mechanisms of patriarchal structures (or what might, in this case, more specifically be termed kyriarchy) and how, despite initial appearances, it is possible to have a society where you have a black man as the President of the United States while simultaneously having the majority of society in that country still subject to the same structural edifices that value the voices of some over others, often based on gender and race, in a seeming contradiction to what one would expect based on that leader.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I imagine Trog reading this with his head turned to the side, like a dog being shown a card trick.

[kadaria.livejournal.com]

You get extra points for having a http://www.gastrophobia.com/ icon.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

Love that comic.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Well, a good part of the population don't accept that he is even an American. It's pretty icky that people demand seeing his birth certificate - the long form!

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

You've finally noticed a large portion of the population dismisses him out of hand for not being white? Congratulations and welcome to this century.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Remind me again: which other president was called a liar while he was giving his SOTU address?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

to be clear: called a liar by a member of congress, who was present while the address was being made.

I am sure that Bush, Clinton, Reagan and so on, all had *someone* refer to them as a liar during their SOTU, but it wasn't a congressman who was doing it.

[trog.livejournal.com]

And it turned out he was lying about immigrants not getting health care.

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

BZZZZZ!! Subject change alarm

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Or had to host some racist cop for a beer?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

well, odds are, each president has met some racist cops; but the context was different.

[trog.livejournal.com]

Oh, well if you put it that way, he certainly is not taken seriously:

Dignitaries, family and celebrity guests[edit]
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and former Vice Presidents Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle, Al Gore and Dick Cheney, along with their wives, attended the inauguration.[176][177] Cheney was in a wheelchair because of an injury that he suffered while moving boxes.[177][178]
John Lewis, the only living speaker from the historic 1963 rally at the March on Washington, was present on the stage during the inauguration.[179] More than 180 of the Tuskegee Airmen attended as invited guests for the inauguration.[180][181] The five-person crew of US Airways Flight 1549 attended the swearing-in ceremony, including Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the aircraft in the Hudson River near Manhattan after losing both engines due to a bird strike just after departing LaGuardia Airport.[182]
Eighty-seven-year-old Sarah Obama led a group of Obama's Kenyan relatives from his father's home village of Kogelo.[183] Other relatives who traveled from Kenya as guests included Obama's aunt, Maggie Obama, his uncle, Said Obama, as well as his half-brother Malik Obama.[183][184] Also, Kenya youth activist and Chair of the Martin Luther King, Jr Africa Foundation, Moses Mwangi, attended the Inaugural events.[185] Mwangi Mukami had served as Chair of the Obama Worldwide Supporters Campaign though it was unrelated to the official campaign. Joe Biden's son, Beau, Attorney General for the state of Delaware and an officer and Judge Advocate in the Delaware Army National Guard, received a special furlough from serving in Iraq to participate in the ceremonies.[186]
Celebrity guests included the actors Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, singer Beyoncé Knowles, and director Steven Spielberg.[176]

[trog.livejournal.com]

Crowds and general ticket holders[edit]
View of the entire length of the National Mall and the Washington Monument with a large audience of attendees

Crowds watch the inauguration at the National Mall. The Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial behind it, are in the background.
No official count was taken of the number of people attending the inaugural ceremony, although multiple sources concluded that the ceremony had the largest audience of any event ever held in Washington, D.C. Government agencies and federal officials, who coordinated security and traffic management, determined the attendance count to be 1.8 million people based on information collected by several cameras and individuals on the ground. The Washington Post reported the estimated crowd size for the inaugural ceremony, and the National Park Service said it did not contest the estimate.[187][188]
Stephen Doig, a professor at Arizona State University, estimated that 1.1 million people attended the inauguration ceremony using the same satellite image. Although the image was taken a little less than 45 minutes before Obama's swearing-in ceremony, Doig adjusted his estimate to include people who were still arriving in the area before the event.[189] In spite of his crowd estimate, Doig stated that "if I had to bet, I would say the [Barack] Obama crowd is in fact bigger than those that showed up for [Johnson] or any of the other things ... I'm wholly prepared to think it was the largest crowd."[187] Approximately 1.2 million people had attended the second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.[190]
Amid the massive crowds that arrived at the U.S. Capitol for the inauguration, about 4,000 ticket holders were unable to gain entry to reserved areas on the Capitol grounds after security personnel closed the gates at the start of the formal ceremony. Many ticket holders were stuck in underground tunnels where pedestrian traffic was directed to and from the National Mall. People dubbed one such tunnel "the Purple Tunnel of Doom", after the purple tickets that would-be viewers held.[191] Others remained stuck in long lines as they waited to gain entry to the reserved areas.[192][193][194][195][196] Senator Dianne Feinstein, in her capacity as chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, launched an investigation to address complaints by the affected ticket holders.[197] The committee later announced that ticket holders who were unable to enter the Capitol grounds to view the ceremony would receive a copy of the swearing-in invitation and program, photos of President Obama and Vice President Biden and a color print of the inaugural ceremony.[198]


Sounds like nobody gives a shit about Obama...

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

No, just the people who don't give a shit weren't there (or were forced to be there because of protocol). That's a lot.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Apparently that congressman had organised with a whole lot of his congress buddies to all yell out "YOU LIE" at the same time, then no one else did it. I bet he felt like a spanner after that one.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

He is doing a good thing.

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

Once again, Patrick Stewart made of win.