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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fck off. [b]I worked[/b] for my "privilege". [b]My parents [/b]were the first in my family to go to college. I resent this being counted [b]against my kids [/b]for purely political reasons.[/quote]

Case in point :roll:[/quote]

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.[/quote]

NP here.  Honest question, and pls don't rip my head off:  are your children today, 5/16/19, experiencing privilege or adversity?  If there's a continuum or number scale, whatever, with zero being the worst adverse conditions imaginable outside of prison, and 10 being a life of yachting the mediterranean … where do you place your [b]**kids**[/b] today, 5/16/19?

I'll answer that:  my son is about a 7-8.  I (like you) had to work harder at his age, so I was about a 5 when I was 17.  My parents — also the first in their families to attend college — were 3-4.  THEIR parents lived actual adversity in the steerage of infection-filled ships coming to the US, then living in tenements in lower NYC and facing daily discrimination and living in filth and disease.

In my book, [b]my white grandparents[/b] should have rec'd an adversity bump from the College Board on the SAT.  My white, affluent son in 2019, four generations later, should not.[/quote]

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