Serious question: Why are people afraid to admit privilege?

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Anonymous wrote:They don't think they are successful because of privilege. They think they are successful because they are smart and made all the right choices, thus they are OWED good things.

That is called ENTITLEMENT. Learn the difference.

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Anonymous wrote:Fck off. I worked for my "privilege". My parents were the first in my family to go to college. I resent this being counted against my kids for purely political reasons.

Case in point

It is a case in point of me not admitting privilege because my family did not have "privilege" handed to it, we had to work for it.

So fck you and your eye rolling too.

You may not have had privilege but your kids do for sure.

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The goal is to take those with high adversity scores and admit them so that their kids will have low adversity scores? The circle of life?

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Anonymous wrote:Most people's lives are not as simple or good as they appear and many who have done well have done it due to their own hard work or just pure luck and haven't had anything handed to them. There is such a hateful bias to skin color. Despite being white, many of us have had very difficult lives.

You are missing the point. The burden of being a POC is incremental to the life difficulties. All of us have life difficulties. I almost died and have significant health problems. But I can walk into a store and nobody assumes I'm there to steal, I was pulled over for speeding and got just a warning and I haven't been shot. The POC have to deal with the instant bias and discrimination for all their lives IN ADDITION to all the stuff we deal with, as white people. This is the hateful bias.

NP here. I agree with this. But there is another bias, that no one talks about - that if you are white, you have certain privileges. Not so. I know plenty of first generation American or first in their family to attend college that got zero financial aid. What makes the latter "less deserving"?

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Privilege provides greater access to opportunity.
For years people who were privileged enough to be able-bodied with hearing and eyesight and two functioning legs had more access to opportunities than handicapped individuals, right?
We’re handicapped and disabled people less intelligent, less hard-working, or less capable of contributing to society?
NO.
When changes were implemented to make accommodations for handicapped and disabled individuals they proved that when given more opportunities they could be useful and productive and pioneering members of society.
People of color are not less intelligent less hard-working or less capable of contributing to society. People born into poverty are not less intelligent, less hard-working, or less capable of contributing to society.
Non-whites are not inherently lacking in morals or work ethics or innovative ideas they are lacking in opportunity.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people's lives are not as simple or good as they appear and many who have done well have done it due to their own hard work or just pure luck and haven't had anything handed to them. There is such a hateful bias to skin color. Despite being white, many of us have had very difficult lives.

You are missing the point. The burden of being a POC is incremental to the life difficulties. All of us have life difficulties. I almost died and have significant health problems. But I can walk into a store and nobody assumes I'm there to steal, I was pulled over for speeding and got just a warning and I haven't been shot. The POC have to deal with the instant bias and discrimination for all their lives IN ADDITION to all the stuff we deal with, as white people. This is the hateful bias.

NP here. I agree with this. But there is another bias, that no one talks about - that if you are white, you have certain privileges. Not so. I know plenty of first generation American or first in their family to attend college that got zero financial aid. What makes the latter "less deserving"?

I'm struggling to understand how not receiving financial aid is equivalent to living with constant bias and discrimination.

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How about spending some money on grade school education and enabling kids to get into college properly prepared? This won't cover other issues like poverty, but would be a good start for the kids. I've heard the under privileged who do get slotted into college and eventually get a well paying job, in general, do not go back help the kids in their old neighborhood.

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People with privilege that is assigned to them, and can’t have it taken away if they tried - in this thread white people tend to react in the following ways during discussions like this:

1 accept it fully and act entitled/abuse it
2 accept it and try to create awareness to level the playing field
3 deny it exists, but still benefit from it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fck off. I worked for my "privilege". My parents were the first in my family to go to college. I resent this being counted against my kids for purely political reasons.

why so angry?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm someone who fully believes that some people are born with more privilege or advantages (due to race, sex, SES, etc) than others. Consequently, I also believe there should be policies intended to equalize the playing field. But SAT adversity points scheme is stupid and self-defeating. What's the purpose of the exam if the score is not an accurate reflection of how well the student performed on the exam? The answer should be making free SAT prep available to disadvantaged students not artificially inflating SAT scores.

If you have a class with 40 kids that are advanced and 10 kids that are average the 10 kids that are average are going to struggle and frankly they have no business at an elite institution

the actual solution is to improve schools in lower performing areas to address the knowledge gap much earlier in life and really it starts from birth-5 with more and better headstart type programs

Get with the times, PP. That is so old school. Nowadays, the going reasoning is that there is *obviously* something wrong with the curriculum or the test if those 10 kids are underperforming. It must be racial bias or privilege-bias (especially if 8 out of 10 of those kids are URM) that caused the kids not to learn as quickly. So now you need to change the curriculum or create ratios so that you push at least 6 of those 10 kids into the advanced program. (See AAP in FCPS)

ha yeah I know. I'm just waiting for all the SJW to move to the crappy areas. That would fix the problem too but surprise no one does it. Seems like SJW like to hold on to "privilege" aka do what's best for their children just like everyone else. So to all the SJW f off lolz

Such an easy term to throw around. Has it never occurred to you that there are plenty of progressives in low-income areas as well?

+1 -- we are progressive and I assure you we don't live in a wealthy/white area. And many folks in our neighborhood are also progressive.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people's lives are not as simple or good as they appear and many who have done well have done it due to their own hard work or just pure luck and haven't had anything handed to them. There is such a hateful bias to skin color. Despite being white, many of us have had very difficult lives.

You are missing the point. The burden of being a POC is incremental to the life difficulties. All of us have life difficulties. I almost died and have significant health problems. But I can walk into a store and nobody assumes I'm there to steal, I was pulled over for speeding and got just a warning and I haven't been shot. The POC have to deal with the instant bias and discrimination for all their lives IN ADDITION to all the stuff we deal with, as white people. This is the hateful bias.

NP here. I agree with this. But there is another bias, that no one talks about - that if you are white, you have certain privileges. Not so. I know plenty of first generation American or first in their family to attend college that got zero financial aid. What makes the latter "less deserving"?

I'm struggling to understand how not receiving financial aid is equivalent to living with constant bias and discrimination.

When you talk about constant bias and discrimination you are talking about Asian Americans and poor whites, correct?

[Anonymous]

congratulations african americans you have taken another term to further your victimization status

wake up look at all the Hispanics and Asians passing you who could care less about privilege instead they work hard and are getting ahead in society

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There is always someone who drew a shorter straw in life.

For example, every African American has an enormous amount of "privilege" relative to a dalit in India. Or someone in a village with ebola in africa.

The "I'm more oppressed" contest is tiresome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fck off. I worked for my "privilege". My parents were the first in my family to go to college. I resent this being counted against my kids for purely political reasons.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:congratulations african americans you have taken another term to further your victimization status

wake up look at all the Hispanics and Asians passing you who could care less about privilege instead they work hard and are getting ahead in society

When were Hispanics and Asians ever behind blacks on the discrimination scale?