Check your privilege!
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@loki said in Check your privilege!:
@horace said in Check your privilege!:
Spending the time or having the inclination to even read through that list, much less complete it and tally it, indicates profound privilege.
The giddiness of the people that put this list together was my biggest take while I was reading this.
Imagine being bat-shit crazy and having your culture support your bat-shit craziness 100%. That's a privilege never before enjoyed in human history.
@horace said in Check your privilege!:
@loki said in Check your privilege!:
@horace said in Check your privilege!:
Spending the time or having the inclination to even read through that list, much less complete it and tally it, indicates profound privilege.
The giddiness of the people that put this list together was my biggest take while I was reading this.
Imagine being bat-shit crazy and having your culture support your bat-shit craziness 100%. That's a privilege never before enjoyed in human history.
It’s a grand experiment.
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May I suggest that if you disagree with some of the basic tenets of “your religion” then maybe it isn’t your religion?
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Kinda
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Yes, I have. Typically when gay friends find out I am straight...
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yep. It was a really strange bar.
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Yes, I am a man.
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Ever been caught in your zipper? That’s never comfortable.
You know, personally I think that all of these “intersectional people have a completely inaccurate view of what it means to be a straight white guy...
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@jon-nyc said in Check your privilege!:
I got a 36 but might have lost count along the way.
Your lack of care and consideration for the test is a sign of privilege. Mark it a 37. (And yes, Klaus, you can build a recursive loop here and make jon's score infinity.)
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I like the question about "feeling poor". Growing up we lived in one of the largest "mansions" in town, but it was in a state of benign neglect because we could barely make the payments. My Dad worked as many as 3 jobs and my Mother 1 job. I didn't have curtains in my bedroom until I was in middle school. Hand me down clothes, growing our own food, almost never eating out. No vacations, no travel. But I didn't feel poor. My parents wouldn't hear of it.
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Does the "w" in ywca stand for "wanker"?
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This whole “privilege” thing is making a lot of inaccurate assumptions from the start.
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OK, so this whole thing can be boiled down to 'If you ever had anything good in your life it's white privilege'.
Surely nothing could be the result of making good choices.
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OK, so this whole thing can be boiled down to 'If you ever had anything good in your life it's white privilege'.
Surely nothing could be the result of making good choices.
@mik said in Check your privilege!:
OK, so this whole thing can be boiled down to 'If you ever had anything good in your life it's white privilege'.
Surely nothing could be the result of making good choices.
Suppression of the masses, comrade. Proletariat power struggles.
FFS they can't even get their own damn schtick, they have to steal theirs from 100 years ago while at the same time completely ignoring how that panned out the first time.
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@mik said in Check your privilege!:
OK, so this whole thing can be boiled down to 'If you ever had anything good in your life it's white privilege'.
Surely nothing could be the result of making good choices.
Suppression of the masses, comrade. Proletariat power struggles.
FFS they can't even get their own damn schtick, they have to steal theirs from 100 years ago while at the same time completely ignoring how that panned out the first time.
@aqua-letifer said in Check your privilege!:
@mik said in Check your privilege!:
OK, so this whole thing can be boiled down to 'If you ever had anything good in your life it's white privilege'.
Surely nothing could be the result of making good choices.
Suppression of the masses, comrade. Proletariat power struggles.
FFS they can't even get their own damn schtick, they have to steal theirs from 100 years ago while at the same time completely ignoring how that panned out the first time.
@aqua-letifer said in Check your privilege!:
@mik said in Check your privilege!:
OK, so this whole thing can be boiled down to 'If you ever had anything good in your life it's white privilege'.
Surely nothing could be the result of making good choices.
Suppression of the masses, comrade. Proletariat power struggles.
FFS they can't even get their own damn schtick, they have to steal theirs from 100 years ago while at the same time completely ignoring how that panned out the first time.
Every so called privileged person has heard the struggles of their parents and grandparents and how they coped and how it built a go forward plan. None included lighting the US on fire and this sort of activism so it feels alien and unbecoming of the right mindset.
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Is the ywca affiliated with the ymca? Because those guys pretty much define privilege around here. Our local gym is like a club for middle class women who don't need to work. We joined for a year, realised we couldn't afford their exorbitant fees, and quit. Then we got a load of letters asking for freaking charitable donations. Now they hold bloody events at 7am on a Saturday morning which wake me up to some bollocks being yelled out over a microphone.
OK, I'm probably getting a bit off track here.
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Is the ywca affiliated with the ymca? Because those guys pretty much define privilege around here. Our local gym is like a club for middle class women who don't need to work. We joined for a year, realised we couldn't afford their exorbitant fees, and quit. Then we got a load of letters asking for freaking charitable donations. Now they hold bloody events at 7am on a Saturday morning which wake me up to some bollocks being yelled out over a microphone.
OK, I'm probably getting a bit off track here.
@doctor-phibes said in Check your privilege!:
OK, I'm probably getting a bit off track here.
Thank God.
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