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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure what privilege means.

My problem with this whole "privilege" thing that has erupted in the last few years is is that it's used as a wedge issue to divide people firmly into camps of haves and have-nots. The reality is that very few people are on one side or the other. You can have all the privilege of affluence, but at the same time suffer from major psychological, health, family, depression issues while a working class person may be working two jobs and living a financially constrained life, but with a warm and supporting family.

There are people who are more fortunate in every sense of the word, but so what. There's nothing new in this. At all. And a lot of them also worked very hard for what they have. So what if they had a better family origin, they still worked off their butts for what they have. So what are they supposed to do or change? What do you want them to do? What is "acknowledging" privilege going to do?

And I also see people using privilege, or rather, the lack of "privilege" to justify mistakes and flaws in their own lives. It's a mechanism they use to allow themselves from accepting the truth and looking directly at themselves and their own actions. It allows them to resent people they see as better off without doing what it takes to become one of those people, especially as they start attributing a misplaced moral dimension to privilege versus unprivileged.

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