Stop calling yourself blessed when what you are is privileged

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Let’s cancel overuse of “privileged” next.

+1000

[Anonymous]

I got an education and made the right choices in life.

Apparently it is impossible for some people to fathom that hard work, education, and good choices pay off in life, and that it is entirely possible that people can earn things through avenues that are not privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having a nice home, or healthy kids, or taking a nice vacation isn't a special right afforded to only one group of people/ So no . . .

Actually it is.

Nope, not really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I got an education and made the right choices in life.

Apparently it is impossible for some people to fathom that hard work, education, and good choices pay off in life, and that it is entirely possible that people can earn things through avenues that are not privilege.

You had good choices to pick from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I got an education and made the right choices in life.

Apparently it is impossible for some people to fathom that hard work, education, and good choices pay off in life, and that it is entirely possible that people can earn things through avenues that are not privilege.

You were privileged enough to have choices available to you that were "right" in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Not lucky, but blessed.

I’d argue that I am most certainly privileged, but deeply grateful to be so. I’m intensely private and have an active prayer life and abiding faith.

My privilege was genetic but I am one generation removed from abject poverty. I cultivated an unusually strong work ethic and am a driven, determined person who got where I am today by some mature, rational decisions, education and setting high standards for myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posting about your beautiful home, healthy kids, gorgeous vacations, and the like doesn’t make you blessed. God didn’t bless you with these things because you’re such a wonderful person. You’re privileged. Period.

I have mixed feeling about this.
I know I’m not a perfect person and don’t feel especially deserving.
In spite of not exactly being set up for success, I’ve managed to do fairly well (DCUM poor, but better than I ever thought I would do career wise)
I have experienced a lot of hardships but I am very appreciative of the things that have gone well and the things and people I feel blessed to have in my life,.
IN SPITE of not being a perfect person. Isn’t that kind of the point of God’s grace?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I got an education and made the right choices in life.

Apparently it is impossible for some people to fathom that hard work, education, and good choices pay off in life, and that it is entirely possible that people can earn things through avenues that are not privilege.

You had good choices to pick from.

That were earned by studying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Let’s cancel overuse of “privileged” next.

This.

If you work for it, you aren’t privileged.

And, privilege shouldn’t become a scarlet letter.

[Anonymous]

I guess people who don’t have these things are cursed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Let’s cancel overuse of “privileged” next.

This.

If you work for it, you aren’t privileged.

And, privilege shouldn’t become a scarlet letter.

It’s not a scarlet letter. So why not admit you have it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess people who don’t have these things are cursed?

Pretty much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I got an education and made the right choices in life.

Apparently it is impossible for some people to fathom that hard work, education, and good choices pay off in life, and that it is entirely possible that people can earn things through avenues that are not privilege.

You had good choices to pick from.

That were earned by studying.

Hard to study when there’s gunshots outside your unit every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I got an education and made the right choices in life.

Apparently it is impossible for some people to fathom that hard work, education, and good choices pay off in life, and that it is entirely possible that people can earn things through avenues that are not privilege.

You were privileged enough to have choices available to you that were "right" in the first place.

No one is ever responsible for the outcomes of their lives, because they could always argue they didn't have the 'right' choices available
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Holy S, where do I buy this Kool aid flavor? It certainly seems like it'll give a nice acid trip for your brain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess people who don’t have these things are cursed?

Lol