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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t live in the DMV anymore.

The city I live in is mostly very poor & has extremely low-performing public schools. A group of (almost all white) local private day & boarding school students started a free tutoring program for the public school kids. The advertising specifically stated it was for “needy X school kids.” These wealthy kids’ (untrained teenagers, mind you) parents have a lot of clout here and got a spot reserved in an establishment in our local mall multiple times a week for tutoring. There were billboards for it, a website with its own domain name & other similar forms of advertisement. The program had an Instagram account, and would post pictures of them tutoring these kids in raggedy clothes. The whole thing was in such poor taste, I cringed every time I saw the billboards. It was clear the tutors were doing it for college admissions, and each year the tutors would go off to top colleges, and by year 4 it dwindled down to nothing. I doubt the tutors will ever live in this city again. So patronizing.

Moral of the story: don’t do what those private school kids did. [/quote]

I love how posters love to mention that the rich and privileged are white. They ALWAYS mention it if they are white. Not one post makes a point to identify a less privileged person as white or a more privileged person as brown/black. 
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If they did, they wouldn’t be able to virtue signal. [/quote]

There is an element of truth to this observation. Do people really care about privilege when measuring themselves against poor whites, of which there are plenty? I suspect not. Same for poor Asian immigrants in Chinatown tenements. Those groups are always somehow exempt from the oh woe is me privilege competition. Likewise, no one asks the Obama girls to check their privilege either.

That aside, it can be difficult to get children of affluence to truly become aware of how much effort and work it takes to achieve a successful outcome in life. Contrary to what some want to believe on DCUM, most professional UMC people didn't get everything handed to them on a silver platter. Life is a hustle for most people outside the top 1% (and even much of the top 1% is there because they outhustled everyone else). [/quote]

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