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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want to say much because I think I know this school and teacher because I used to work there. The school has made it a priority to teach a lot of super privileged kids that they are privileged. I don’t disagree. People who are really hurt or offended by this should ask themselves why they are. I suspect it is because they believe firmly that they deserve everything they have, and no luck was involved.[/quote]

I am offended because it perpetuates stereotypes which we keep preaching we need to get rid of in society.  This just teaches the stereotype that all whites are privileged [b](with an assumption that their life is easy and blacks always struggle).[/b] Don't make assumptions about peoples lives based upon their skin color. People have hardships and struggles in different aspects of their life for many different reasons - poverty, hunger, broken homes, drugs, disabilities, abuse, tragedy, health issues, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, etc.

The goal of the exercise might be for kids to examine their life and determine what factors might be a privilege but NOT for a teacher to tell them their race is always a privilege. This just perpetuates a belief that certain races think the other is better off or worse off when in reality, the course of anyone's life is a combination of luck, hard work, and how you respond to what life deals you.

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Onnnnnce again for the slow people in the back, that is NOT what white privilege means.  It doesn't mean you were handed anything.  It doesn't mean bad, sometimes terrible, things have never happened to you.  The only people who think that's what it means are ignorant Right-Wingers who are desperately clinging to the Murrica Bootstraps myth.[/quote]

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