I’m a scrappy gal who has made it on my own.. My dad was wealthy but just didn’t share
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I’m a scrappy gal who has made it on my own.. My dad was wealthy but just didn’t share, i guess?. I support my mom now entirely. Am I privileged?
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Are your parents divorced? |
Anonymous
| Unless your father was estranged your whole childhood, you didn’t really make it on your own. You grew up with the advantages of wealth in your childhood. |
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As a child, did you go to bed hungry? Did you worry often about having enough money for things? Did you ever have the utilities shut off? Did you attend a failing school with poor teachers, overcrowded classrooms and few resources? Did you feel safe playing outside in your neighborhood? How old were you when you got your first job and what did you spend the money on?
If your definition of “not privileged” is “I had to pay for my own college” then you are privileged. |
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Yes, you are. |
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What is “it?” I |
Anonymous
| OP if you are talking about white privilege it doesn't mean that you didn't work hard or struggle it just means that you haven't lived your entire life being judged adversely simply based on the color of your skin. Got it? |
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Are there people worse off than you? If so, then you experience some privilege. Most of us do ... just like most of us experience some oppression as well.
Experiencing privilege does not make you a bad person or unworthy of your accomplishments, just like experiencing some oppression does not make you a heroic (or tragic) figure. The point of the "privilege" discussion is compassion and humility -- to be aware of the fact that, but for some lucky circumstances not in your control, you could be in the same situation as that other person you think isn't as "scrappy." |
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| Privilege is the most overused, useless word out there |
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| Is this the start to a rap song? |
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+1000 |
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You can be privilaged and have a work ethic.
I never thought my 10+ year career in banking had anything to do with privliage, I worked hard through college, pulling full-time school with full-time employment. Then I remembered my very first interview, the one that started it all. When I arrived to the interview and there was a young black woman waiting too, she was dressed like she already worked at a bank. I looked like I worked as an assistant manager at the mall (which I was). She and I are sitting next to each other, and her resume looked SO impressive. I immediately felt out of my league. My interview time was mixed up with hers, but I had to go to the mall before it opened. The interviewers proceed with her first. About 15 minutes into HER interview, the panel of three white interviewers said they felt awful that I might miss this interview because I had to go to work. They stopped HER interview, and invited me in and excused her. I killed the interview. I was told at the interview I had the job and they would ve extending an offer. There was another position open as well but the girl in the lobby didn't get it. No way would those interviewers had acted that way if my competition was a white sorority girl. |
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| Must be a troll. |
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Anyone born in the US is privileged. Two years ago I visited a slum in Nairobi that really showed what underprivileged means. |
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+1. OP, go google orphanages in Eastern Europe. You are also privileged if you were born with a skin color that didn't immediately mean some people always assumed the worst about you and treated you accordingly. It doesn't mean your life was easy - just that you were born with a leg up that some others didn't have. |