Stop calling yourself blessed when what you are is privileged

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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?

It is in today's world. Calling someone privileged is a slam against them. It's saying they have something they don't deserve to have. It couldn't have been earned, it had to have been because of their "privilege".

You can earn things and still be cognizant that there are fewer barriers to clear. Privilege is a clearer, or at least less obstacle laden path. For example, we grew up poor but we could still afford the sugar for brand name Kool-Aid. We shopped at bulk food stores because my parents could afford the membership, and had a car to bring everything across the highway safely. We are also white so my parents had fewer obstacles to obtain a loan towards their townhome. We bought second hand everything and wore hand me downs, but the clerk didn’t keep an eye out for me stealing in the thrift store just because.

Your explanation doesn't change that it is a negative to be viewed as "priviliged".

The DMV is full of these Snowflakes who have an incredibly high standard of living, access to excellent schools, and a strong quality of life but shrivel into a shell as soon as anonymous person calls them privileged. Get over yourselves

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Yes, I am privileged. Saying this doesn’t undermine my sense of self. Why is that so hard?

Because typically when you call someone privileged you're telling them to sit down and shut up.

Typically I'm telling fellow privileged people to acknowledge how good we have it compared with others, and not to ascribe our good fortune of accidents of birth to some kind of moral superiority.

That sounds like sit down and shut up to me.

Are you discussing the gutting of the middle class? The essential lowering of the minimum wage? The absurd increases in college tuition, and the role the increases in student loan availability had in that? The demise of labor union power? The transformation of retirement programs to individual savings plans? The rise of the gig economy and the impact on people's access to health insurance? These are the things we should be focusing on. These are the issues that have the power to improve the lives of millions of Americans. Focusing on who among us is privileged, and the race to the bottom to be less privileged and therefore uniquely granted the moral authority to speak up is not helping us, at all.

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You clearly don't read the bible. I could answer meaningfully, but why bother. You have eyes that cannot see, and ears that cannot hear.

bwa ha ha. Catholic school grad who never missed weekly mass the first 24 years of my life.

"I am blessed to have a house" does not equal "I am blessed because of God's grace." At all.

Some people are blessed with material things. For example, read Job Chapter 42.

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You clearly don't read the bible. I could answer meaningfully, but why bother. You have eyes that cannot see, and ears that cannot hear.

bwa ha ha. Catholic school grad who never missed weekly mass the first 24 years of my life.

"I am blessed to have a house" does not equal "I am blessed because of God's grace." At all.

Some people are blessed with material things. For example, read Job Chapter 42.

"Thus the Lord BLESSED the latter days of Job more than the earlier ones. For he had 4,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen. . . an inheritance. . ."

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You clearly don't read the bible. I could answer meaningfully, but why bother. You have eyes that cannot see, and ears that cannot hear.

bwa ha ha. Catholic school grad who never missed weekly mass the first 24 years of my life.

"I am blessed to have a house" does not equal "I am blessed because of God's grace." At all.

Some people are blessed with material things. For example, read Job Chapter 42.

"Thus the Lord BLESSED the latter days of Job more than the earlier ones. For he had 4,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen. . . an inheritance. . ."

Apparently, he went to hell.

Matthew 19:24
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

[Anonymous]

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You clearly don't read the bible. I could answer meaningfully, but why bother. You have eyes that cannot see, and ears that cannot hear.

bwa ha ha. Catholic school grad who never missed weekly mass the first 24 years of my life.

"I am blessed to have a house" does not equal "I am blessed because of God's grace." At all.

Some people are blessed with material things. For example, read Job Chapter 42.

"Thus the Lord BLESSED the latter days of Job more than the earlier ones. For he had 4,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen. . . an inheritance. . ."

Apparently, he went to hell.

Matthew 19:24
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 6:33
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

[Anonymous]

I mean, let’s get real.

Blessed or privileged, in blessed or under privileged - all y’all gonna be worm food sooner or later.

This incessant infighting amongst the adults about who gets what and what gets who is childish.

The world is not fair and NEVER HAS BEEN. get the message and move on.

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You clearly don't read the bible. I could answer meaningfully, but why bother. You have eyes that cannot see, and ears that cannot hear.

bwa ha ha. Catholic school grad who never missed weekly mass the first 24 years of my life.

"I am blessed to have a house" does not equal "I am blessed because of God's grace." At all.

Some people are blessed with material things. For example, read Job Chapter 42.

"Thus the Lord BLESSED the latter days of Job more than the earlier ones. For he had 4,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen. . . an inheritance. . ."

Apparently, he went to hell.

Matthew 19:24
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Dude, what are you talking about? Job did not "go to hell." Nor King David, nor many blessed people in the bible.

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You clearly don't read the bible. I could answer meaningfully, but why bother. You have eyes that cannot see, and ears that cannot hear.

bwa ha ha. Catholic school grad who never missed weekly mass the first 24 years of my life.

"I am blessed to have a house" does not equal "I am blessed because of God's grace." At all.

Some people are blessed with material things. For example, read Job Chapter 42.

"Thus the Lord BLESSED the latter days of Job more than the earlier ones. For he had 4,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen. . . an inheritance. . ."

Apparently, he went to hell.

Matthew 19:24
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Dude, what are you talking about? Job did not "go to hell." Nor King David, nor many blessed people in the bible.

I was being sarcastic. This bible talk is so out of place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, let’s get real.

Blessed or privileged, in blessed or under privileged - all y’all gonna be worm food sooner or later.

This incessant infighting amongst the adults about who gets what and what gets who is childish.

The world is not fair and NEVER HAS BEEN. get the message and move on.

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Stop calling other people privileged when what you are is jealous.

[Anonymous]

I mean, of course "blessed" is silly because there's no sky daddy up there handing out favors. But it's ok to be grateful. And it's ok to understand "blessed" as expressing gratitude.

Also, everything is a privilege. If you're not dead, you're privileged. Everyone alive has different combinations of privileges. Somewhere on earth, you have someone who is the least privileged human in existence - but they've got something - if only their life.

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You clearly don't read the bible. I could answer meaningfully, but why bother. You have eyes that cannot see, and ears that cannot hear.

bwa ha ha. Catholic school grad who never missed weekly mass the first 24 years of my life.

"I am blessed to have a house" does not equal "I am blessed because of God's grace." At all.

Some people are blessed with material things. For example, read Job Chapter 42.

"Thus the Lord BLESSED the latter days of Job more than the earlier ones. For he had 4,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen. . . an inheritance. . ."

Apparently, he went to hell.

Matthew 19:24
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Doesn’t say being rich guarantees you go to hell. Just says it’s harder to get to heaven if you’re rich.

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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.

Really? There are certain groups who only have unhealthy children? I wasn't aware.

A child doesn't get cancer because he wasn't blessed. A nice home, whatever that is for each person, didn't happen because people were blessed. Living in the first world with access to medical care, education, housing, food, etc., mean that one does, indeed have privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, of course "blessed" is silly because there's no sky daddy up there handing out favors. But it's ok to be grateful. And it's ok to understand "blessed" as expressing gratitude.

Also, everything is a privilege. If you're not dead, you're privileged. Everyone alive has different combinations of privileges. Somewhere on earth, you have someone who is the least privileged human in existence - but they've got something - if only their life.

I mean, clearly sky daddy isn't handing out favors...to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find “blessed” language annoying because a blessing is a gift from God. Do you really think God gave you a nice house and loving partner and good teeth, but decided NOT to give those nice things to the rest of us? No. You probably think some of it is dumb luck (the teeth) and the rest of it is a combination of your own hard work and smarts. But saying you are “blessed” seems to make people feel better about saying “I have nice things! I’m happy and grateful!” Like they aren’t bragging. But God doesn’t withhold nice houses from undeserving folk and give them to the deserving, so I don’t see your nice house as a blessing. I see it as a result of our socio-economic system that rewards some kinds of labor and doesn’t compensate others as well. I don’t think God is a capitalist.

Winning post in my book.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, of course "blessed" is silly because there's no sky daddy up there handing out favors. But it's ok to be grateful. And it's ok to understand "blessed" as expressing gratitude.

Also, everything is a privilege. If you're not dead, you're privileged. Everyone alive has different combinations of privileges. Somewhere on earth, you have someone who is the least privileged human in existence - but they've got something - if only their life.

I mean, clearly sky daddy isn't handing out favors...to you.

No, to anybody. The same logic that leads a person to believe there is a magical mystery man running everything is the logic that leads to people taking horse dewormer to treat COVID instead of a vaccine created for that purpose by scientists in a lab. Magical thinking either way. I love that religion helps people through their day, inspires them to do good in the world, and has led to all kinds of great art and literature and some other wonderful things. But it's absolutely not a true description of reality.