Stop calling yourself blessed when what you are is privileged

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Does a child get cancer because he is not privileged? Do rich white kids escape cancer because they are privileged?

You don't get this do you? Lol

The reverse of this blessed logic doesn't work here, dear. That implies that those who don't have good things aren't blessed.

People aren't "blessed" when good things happen to them. A lot of good things happen to people because of any number of reasons, and access to these things aren't controlled by blessings, but access.

Cancer? White people? Well, let's go there. Anyone can get cancer. But who will have access to care? Who will have more experience with preventable disease such as diabetes, heart issues,
and some cancers? I think the pandemic showed us a lot about privilege, too. Look at the death and disease stats on that. Were they all not "blessed?"

Well, and why stop at white Americans? American people of color are way more privileged than most people of whatever color in most other countries.

We are all waiting with bated breath for your explanation regarding this. How did you decide THAT was true. Come on, entertain us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Does a child get cancer because he is not privileged? Do rich white kids escape cancer because they are privileged?

You don't get this do you? Lol

The reverse of this blessed logic doesn't work here, dear. That implies that those who don't have good things aren't blessed.

People aren't "blessed" when good things happen to them. A lot of good things happen to people because of any number of reasons, and access to these things aren't controlled by blessings, but access.

Cancer? White people? Well, let's go there. Anyone can get cancer. But who will have access to care? Who will have more experience with preventable disease such as diabetes, heart issues,
and some cancers? I think the pandemic showed us a lot about privilege, too. Look at the death and disease stats on that. Were they all not "blessed?"

DP. In real logic, the inverse of a statement is not assumed to be true. Not sure where you're headed with your rant about blessings and privilege, but you didn't get there by logic.

[Anonymous]

“Calling people out” for their privilege on social media and anonymous message boards the purest and moat effective form of slactivism. You’re changing lives, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Does a child get cancer because he is not privileged? Do rich white kids escape cancer because they are privileged?

You don't get this do you? Lol

The reverse of this blessed logic doesn't work here, dear. That implies that those who don't have good things aren't blessed.

People aren't "blessed" when good things happen to them. A lot of good things happen to people because of any number of reasons, and access to these things aren't controlled by blessings, but access.

Cancer? White people? Well, let's go there. Anyone can get cancer. But who will have access to care? Who will have more experience with preventable disease such as diabetes, heart issues,
and some cancers? I think the pandemic showed us a lot about privilege, too. Look at the death and disease stats on that. Were they all not "blessed?"

DP. In real logic, the inverse of a statement is not assumed to be true. Not sure where you're headed with your rant about blessings and privilege, but you didn't get there by logic.

Try harder, dear, to understand. You just do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Does a child get cancer because he is not privileged? Do rich white kids escape cancer because they are privileged?

You don't get this do you? Lol

The reverse of this blessed logic doesn't work here, dear. That implies that those who don't have good things aren't blessed.

People aren't "blessed" when good things happen to them. A lot of good things happen to people because of any number of reasons, and access to these things aren't controlled by blessings, but access.

Cancer? White people? Well, let's go there. Anyone can get cancer. But who will have access to care? Who will have more experience with preventable disease such as diabetes, heart issues,
and some cancers? I think the pandemic showed us a lot about privilege, too. Look at the death and disease stats on that. Were they all not "blessed?"

DP. In real logic, the inverse of a statement is not assumed to be true. Not sure where you're headed with your rant about blessings and privilege, but you didn't get there by logic.

Try harder, dear, to understand. You just do not.

If you try harder you will understand, dear = / = If you don't try harder you will not understand, dear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Does a child get cancer because he is not privileged? Do rich white kids escape cancer because they are privileged?

You don't get this do you? Lol

The reverse of this blessed logic doesn't work here, dear. That implies that those who don't have good things aren't blessed.

People aren't "blessed" when good things happen to them. A lot of good things happen to people because of any number of reasons, and access to these things aren't controlled by blessings, but access.

Cancer? White people? Well, let's go there. Anyone can get cancer. But who will have access to care? Who will have more experience with preventable disease such as diabetes, heart issues,
and some cancers? I think the pandemic showed us a lot about privilege, too. Look at the death and disease stats on that. Were they all not "blessed?"

DP. In real logic, the inverse of a statement is not assumed to be true. Not sure where you're headed with your rant about blessings and privilege, but you didn't get there by logic.

Try harder, dear, to understand. You just do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Calling people out” for their privilege on social media and anonymous message boards the purest and moat effective form of slactivism. You’re changing lives, people.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Does a child get cancer because he is not privileged? Do rich white kids escape cancer because they are privileged?

You don't get this do you? Lol

The reverse of this blessed logic doesn't work here, dear. That implies that those who don't have good things aren't blessed.

People aren't "blessed" when good things happen to them. A lot of good things happen to people because of any number of reasons, and access to these things aren't controlled by blessings, but access.

Cancer? White people? Well, let's go there. Anyone can get cancer. But who will have access to care? Who will have more experience with preventable disease such as diabetes, heart issues,
and some cancers? I think the pandemic showed us a lot about privilege, too. Look at the death and disease stats on that. Were they all not "blessed?"

DP. In real logic, the inverse of a statement is not assumed to be true. Not sure where you're headed with your rant about blessings and privilege, but you didn't get there by logic.

Try harder, dear, to understand. You just do not.

If you try harder you will understand, dear = / = If you don't try harder you will not understand, dear.

This is the only factual statement in this entire thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Calling people out” for their privilege on social media and anonymous message boards the purest and moat effective form of slactivism. You’re changing lives, people.

+1

Yes!!!

[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.

No you are blessed. Blessed by God.

Privileged is a stupid work. Lazy work. Advantaged? To me that sums it up. Some people are advantaged. Either for things they did or for no reason other than their wealth, skin color, or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Fedora mode: activated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+2

This thread is deranged. The people flipping out about being called privileged (guess what, if you are posting on DCUM on a Sunday and have access to internet and some kind of device... you're privileged!) are embarrassing themselves. If having someone call you out on your privilege, or point out that there is some uncomfortable arrogance in using a term like "blessed" to describe your material wealth or good fortune, makes you this angry, you should be asking yourself why.

I'm a privilege person and people call me out on it and while it never feels great in the moment and sometimes I'm defensive, in the end I'm always okay with it because I can see, logically, that it's true. I don't find being called privileged insulting. It helps me understand the world better and have greater empathy for others, and it helps me understand my own life better. I don't find it upsetting or like an insult. I think it's a way for people with less inherent power to balance the scales a little bit, and that can only be a good thing. I don't want to exploit people, and I don't want to live a beautiful life if it means my neighbor is suffering.

It's basically the same stuff my 4 yo learns in preschool. A lot of people in this thread are less mature than preschoolers with the fits they are having.

Disagreement with the concept of “privilege”, as that term is commonly used, is not flipping out. It’s an infinitely malleable term—as shown by your own example of “posting to the internet from a device” as a form of privilege, which literally almost everyone in this country can do if they want—designed to portray any economic or social disparity as unethical or undeserved to facilitate redistribution.

[Anonymous]

I killed a man.


Not my fault though, because i wasn't privileged enough to have more options available for better choices!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No you are blessed. Blessed by God.

Privileged is a stupid work. Lazy work. Advantaged? To me that sums it up. Some people are advantaged. Either for things they did or for no reason other than their wealth, skin color, or whatever.

privilege noun

/ˈprɪvəlɪdʒ/
/ˈprɪvəlɪdʒ/

​ [countable] a special right or advantage that a particular person or group of people has

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/privilege_1

[Anonymous]

I'm blessed with privilege and privileged to have so many blessings!