Check your privilege!

[jon-nyc]

I got a 36 but might have lost count along the way.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.)

[Kincaid]

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.

[Catseye3]

WTF is this in aid of?

[Doctor Phibes]

Does the "w" in ywca stand for "wanker"?

[Aqua Letifer]

@catseye3 said in Check your privilege!:

WTF is this in aid of?

Power games, same as always.

[LuFins Dad]

This whole “privilege” thing is making a lot of inaccurate assumptions from the start.

[Mik]

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.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

[Loki]

@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.

[brenda]

Well, I have definitely been mocked for my accent.

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[Aqua Letifer]

@doctor-phibes said in Check your privilege!:

OK, I'm probably getting a bit off track here.

Thank God.

[Doctor Phibes]

If you want a bit of entertainment, you could fill out this questionnaire as Donald J. Trump.