Serious question: Why are people afraid to admit privilege?

[Anonymous]

Well, our level of inequality is higher than it’s been since just before the Great Depression. We can’t afford to sustain these levels. Something has to be done, and this decision by the College Board helps a tiny, tiny bit.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I am with you PP. someone called me a “privileged bi*ch” last week in a car wash of all places. I smiled nicely and responded that I hoped she would enjoy the same privilege, but I doubted it because she was ugly and fat.

[Anonymous]

Americans struggle with it more because our culture praises being a self made man and sells us a myth from childhood that hard work equals success. If we acknowledge privilege, it means we have to examine why some work hard and are still locked in poverty.

My European friends are more more readily able to admit the unearned advantages they enjoy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Privilege is just a loaded word

Apparently it's privilege that instead of going on fancy vacations and spending on cars we lived more frugally so we could afford to live in a better school district

Apparently it's privilege to encourage your kids to work hard, study and get good grades

I just call bs on all of it

Doing those things is common sense and if more folks would do it we wouldn't be having these discussions

Apparently it's privilege to go to school/military/trade/skill/job then get married and TEHN have kids once you can afford them

Again if people did that poverty would almost disappear in a generation

Many people develop cerebral palsy, fetal alcohol syndrome, issues related to low birth weight because their mothers have babies they should not have. Similar mental problems such as attachment disorder and sociopathy can be attributed to little attention from parents as infants. So, yes physical and mental disabilities could be reduced if children were born into healthier circumstances.

It erases all mental illness and disabilities... who knew.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:College is different today, so don't compare your experience 20 years ago.

The economy is different, and most kids don't have money to go to a private university.

Flagship state schools are far more selective now as a result. Even 2nd and 3rd tier state schools.

Lots of kids end up at MC or other CCs as a result...especially white kids whose friends with the exact same grades and scores make it into UMCP because of their diversity/adversity.

And this is why people care about this new policy.

Yes, but the kids who go to CC’s (and not to UMCP) will end up doing fine in life because of their privilege!

Giving up those slots at UMCP to someone more worthy due to them having less/no privilege is simply the way your kids will do their part to level the playing field of society.

Maybe things have changed, but when I went to UMCP in the early 2000s, all of the kids who didn't get in eventually transferred there from community college anyway. That is why there were so many idiots on campus, even though freshman admission was reasonably selective.

[Anonymous]

Its hard to imagine why people would be peeved over others receiving scores they didn't earn..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I am with you PP. someone called me a “privileged bi*ch” last week in a car wash of all places. I smiled nicely and responded that I hoped she would enjoy the same privilege, but I doubted it because she was ugly and fat.

Don’t worry, being ugly and fat doesn’t stop people from being privileged. Just ask our president.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not privilege, it’s culture. Look at the kids of Chinese immigrants in NYC. They live in immigrant slums (yes they still exist), are dirt poor, and have parents who don’t read or speak English and have never gone to school. Yet, these kids mop the floor with black and white kids in getting into the most selective schools. On merit. Just like it should.

Eh, you're looking at self-selecting group of immigrants. The really dumb Chinese aren't smart enough to make it to America, get a green card, land a stable job, and eventually attain citizenship. You already need to be really, really intelligent to navigate the bureaucracy of the U.S. in your non-native language.

A lot of the kids of Chinese immigrants have parents who are already well-educated (doctors, engineers, etc) but their credentials are not accepted in the United States. Or the parents speak zero English so the only thing available is low paid menial work. So the parents basically need to start over again.

Let's just say this: the further you are from America, the smarter you need to be to finagle your way into our country.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not privilege, it’s culture. Look at the kids of Chinese immigrants in NYC. They live in immigrant slums (yes they still exist), are dirt poor, and have parents who don’t read or speak English and have never gone to school. Yet, these kids mop the floor with black and white kids in getting into the most selective schools. On merit. Just like it should.

Eh, you're looking at self-selecting group of immigrants. The really dumb Chinese aren't smart enough to make it to America, get a green card, land a stable job, and eventually attain citizenship. You already need to be really, really intelligent to navigate the bureaucracy of the U.S. in your non-native language.

A lot of the kids of Chinese immigrants have parents who are already well-educated (doctors, engineers, etc) but their credentials are not accepted in the United States. Or the parents speak zero English so the only thing available is low paid menial work. So the parents basically need to start over again.

Let's just say this: the further you are from America, the smarter you need to be to finagle your way into our country.

Agree, most Chinese that come here already come from well educated families. Also, I wish people would stop comparing Asians and blacks. Asians haven't experienced the same type of racism against them that blacks have. Whites have purposely done things to destroy black people in this country and that's taken a toll on black people's psyche. Asians do experience racism here but no where near as severe.

Are you black yourself PP? Otherwise what you just wrote has no credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not privilege, it’s culture. Look at the kids of Chinese immigrants in NYC. They live in immigrant slums (yes they still exist), are dirt poor, and have parents who don’t read or speak English and have never gone to school. Yet, these kids mop the floor with black and white kids in getting into the most selective schools. On merit. Just like it should.

Eh, you're looking at self-selecting group of immigrants. The really dumb Chinese aren't smart enough to make it to America, get a green card, land a stable job, and eventually attain citizenship. You already need to be really, really intelligent to navigate the bureaucracy of the U.S. in your non-native language.

A lot of the kids of Chinese immigrants have parents who are already well-educated (doctors, engineers, etc) but their credentials are not accepted in the United States. Or the parents speak zero English so the only thing available is low paid menial work. So the parents basically need to start over again.

Let's just say this: the further you are from America, the smarter you need to be to finagle your way into our country.

Agree, most Chinese that come here already come from well educated families. Also, I wish people would stop comparing Asians and blacks. Asians haven't experienced the same type of racism against them that blacks have. Whites have purposely done things to destroy black people in this country and that's taken a toll on black people's psyche. Asians do experience racism here but no where near as severe.

Are you black yourself PP? Otherwise what you just wrote has no credibility.

One only needs a rudimentary understanding of US history to recognize that PP’s statement is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not privilege, it’s culture. Look at the kids of Chinese immigrants in NYC. They live in immigrant slums (yes they still exist), are dirt poor, and have parents who don’t read or speak English and have never gone to school. Yet, these kids mop the floor with black and white kids in getting into the most selective schools. On merit. Just like it should.

Eh, you're looking at self-selecting group of immigrants. The really dumb Chinese aren't smart enough to make it to America, get a green card, land a stable job, and eventually attain citizenship. You already need to be really, really intelligent to navigate the bureaucracy of the U.S. in your non-native language.

A lot of the kids of Chinese immigrants have parents who are already well-educated (doctors, engineers, etc) but their credentials are not accepted in the United States. Or the parents speak zero English so the only thing available is low paid menial work. So the parents basically need to start over again.

Let's just say this: the further you are from America, the smarter you need to be to finagle your way into our country.

Agree, most Chinese that come here already come from well educated families. Also, I wish people would stop comparing Asians and blacks. Asians haven't experienced the same type of racism against them that blacks have. Whites have purposely done things to destroy black people in this country and that's taken a toll on black people's psyche. Asians do experience racism here but no where near as severe.

Are you black yourself PP? Otherwise what you just wrote has no credibility.

Are we really prepared to apply that litmus test, PP?