Current Events > When someone says you have privilege, is it an attack?

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When someone talks about privilege you may possess (white, male, straight, thin, class), do you interpret it as an attack on you?

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Yes
As a CEman I do not have the privilege of dating Ronda Rousey or any other CEgal really
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No. We all have privilege of some sort.

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As a chubby white man I can get away with fucking anything. It's so fucking awesome. If that's not a privilege you're doing it wrong.

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Gakk86 posted...

As a chubby white man I can get away with fucking anything. It's so fucking awesome. If that's not a privilege you're doing it wrong.

Do you mean you can get away with fucking anything or you can get away with fucking anything?

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AmericaTheBrave posted...

Do you mean you can get away with fucking anything or you can get away with fucking anything?

The second one is a different skillset, but no less applicable. Just watch out for splinters.

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Sometimes.

Umbreon posted...

No. We all have privilege of some sort.

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I'm disabled, physically and mentally ill and I'm poor and obese. I wouldn't feel attacked if someone said I was privileged for being a white male, I'd just think they had a very simplistic view of the world.

corneliusmagus posted...

I'm disabled, physically and mentally ill and I'm poor and obese. I wouldn't feel attacked if someone said I was privileged for being a white male, I'd just think they had a very simplistic view of the world.

I'm sorry to hear that.

By "privileged", it means that despite all that, many people would still regard or treat you better than others because you share their skin color.

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Yes. Nobody ever uses it in a positive way. It may sometimes be factually true, but to point it out in the progressive way is to try to bring the other person down.

Yes because when people say it they are clearly using it as some sort of an insult.

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Yes, it's an attack and (reverse) bigotry. You're making all sorts of assumptions on the person based only on some irrelevant trait. Just imagine if it was the other way around. This whole privilege concept is one of the stupidest ideas to come out of modern society. And that's saying a lot.

Any instance of "privilege" is really one of two things. It's either discriminatory practice, in which case it shouldn't be tolerated, or it's a natural occurrence, in which case there's no reason to make any fuss about it.

Depends on context.
If used to say you cannot voice you're opinion or in an attempt to try to invalidate what you say, then yeah.

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Yes it is. nemu and closetjpopfan summed it up quite well. It is also ridiculous how SJWs insist that if you disagree with their rhetoric you simply dont't understand it. Finest example of begging the question if I've ever seen one.

Tsuyoi3 posted...

Depends on context.
If used to say you cannot voice you're opinion or in an attempt to try to invalidate what you say, then yeah.

I've not seen it used any other way. It's always used to discredit someone or downplay their accomplishments.

Na I don't.
But people in general are sensitive, they just are. And they're going to see it as an attack unless you sugarcoat it.
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"if you don't think the way I tell you to, you simply don't understand what privilege is!!!!!1!1!1!1"

Lmao

closetjpopfan posted...

Yes, it's an attack and (reverse) bigotry. You're making all sorts of assumptions on the person based only on some irrelevant trait. Just imagine if it was the other way around. This whole privilege concept is one of the stupidest ideas to come out of modern society. And that's saying a lot.

Any instance of "privilege" is really one of two things. It's either discriminatory practice, in which case it shouldn't be tolerated, or it's a natural occurrence, in which case there's no reason to make any fuss about it.

Well, this is one way to advertise a mind that refuses to open and grow. Fair enough.

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nemu posted...

Yes. Nobody ever uses it in a positive way. It may sometimes be factually true, but to point it out in the progressive way is to try to bring the other person down.

You need to hang around different people. Cause I never hear it in a negative way. Or your perception is wack and you just instantly twist whatever is said. Maybe you just don't have the privilege of an unwacked brain. I have a feeling you indulge in videos of crazy people in public and you see that as the norm. Cause that's the only possible way I can think for someone feeling like it's only used negatively.

This is why I stay away from binging videos of bad behavior.


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BiggLaw posted...

Well, this is one way to advertise a mind that refuses to open and grow. Fair enough.

Yeah if you don't buy into SJW rhetoric about privilege you're simply refusing to open your mind and grow.

Loud_Pipes posted...

Yeah if you don't buy into SJW rhetoric about privilege you're simply refusing to open your mind and grow.

This is some straight yelling on a corner with a sign shit lol.

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A person who stereotypes and generalizes an entire group of people on nothing other than the basis of their immutable characteristics, especially skin color evinces that person at best has a myopic view and at worst is a racist/ bigoted piece of shit.

Umbreon posted...

No. We all have privilege of some sort.

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Depends what kind of privilege. If it's white privilege yes it's an attack. If it's the privilege to go to Disney World maybe not.

Loud_Pipes posted...

Yeah if you don't buy into SJW rhetoric about privilege you're simply refusing to open your mind and grow.

ikr. like wtf is there to understand and grow

"Bigots treat X better than Y
Bigots treat Y worse than X
Therefore society, people in general, treat X better than Y and therefore X is privileged over Y"

...no. As one of my professors would probably say, study more logic and less history of basket weaving, check your math and try again.

SixStringHero posted...

A person who stereotypes and generalizes an entire group of people on nothing other than the basis of their immutable characteristics, especially skin color evinces that person at best has a myopic view and at worst is a racist/ bigoted piece of shit.

so ur saying white privilege isn't a thing?

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No, it's educational.

closetjpopfan posted...

ikr. like wtf is there to understand and grow

"Bigots treat X better than Y
Bigots treat Y worse than X
Therefore society, people in general, treat X better than Y and therefore X is privileged over Y"

...no. As one of my professors would probably say, study more logic and less history of basket weaving, check your math and try again.

u forget that... ...there are a lot of bigots. people who are partly bigots. people who are arguably bigots. being prejudiced by folk because of ur skin colour is something white people rarely have to endure. its not something u have its about something u don't have to deal with

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Loud_Pipes posted...

Yeah if you don't buy into SJW rhetoric about privilege you're simply refusing to open your mind and grow.

Case and point. Proud of being ignorant and projecting. "SJW rhetoric," lol.

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BiggLaw posted...

Case and point. Proud of being ignorant and projecting. "SJW rhetoric," lol.

It's almost as if you don't understand what it means to beg the question. Doubling down on begging the question doesn't suddenly make it legitimate to beg the question lmao.

No man I understand what you're saying, you don't need to explain bullshit to me.

I understand perfectly well that you're reframing a real issue of society into a exaggerated retributive frame that only serves to perpetuate the ill and broaden the divide.

I've never seen privileged be discussed in a positive way

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Loud_Pipes posted...

It's almost as if you don't understand what it means to beg the question. Doubling down on begging the question doesn't suddenly make it legitimate to beg the question lmao.

I feel like this is an attempt at a smokescreen, once realizing the corner he ended up in. The fuck you even talking about

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Loud_Pipes posted...

It's almost as if you don't understand what it means to beg the question. Doubling down on begging the question doesn't suddenly make it legitimate to beg the question lmao.

Quote me in context to support whatever your argument is about me. Looks like you're just a crazy guy on the corner.

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Um no

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shockthemonkey posted...

Not surprising that they ignored this. Cuz they dont want to admit thats what theyre arguing against.

There's an active push against intelligence and education in favor of emotions and righteous indignation.

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NeoBowser posted...

so ur saying white privilege isn't a thing?

Class privilege exists as does majority privilege, but this is not exclusive to white people or the US in general.

The concept of white privilege is inherently racist and nothing good is coming out of it for those pushing the narrative.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neazxq/the-disturbing-thing-i-learned-studying-white-privilege-and-liberals

no. It's not an attack. People get what they put into life. Everything else is like, a coping mechanism

SixStringHero posted...

Class privilege exists as does majority privilege, but this is not exclusive to white people or the US in general.

The concept of white privilege is inherently racist and nothing good is coming out of it for those pushing the narrative.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neazxq/the-disturbing-thing-i-learned-studying-white-privilege-and-liberals

Are you implying that Whiteness wasn't intended to be an ethnic-based social class? Many people considered "White" today weren't even always considered White, and were treated differently as a result. Memories are short sometimes, lol.

Let's not be intellectually dishonest.

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BiggLaw posted...

Many people considered "White" today weren't even always considered White, and were treated differently as a result.

Let's not be intellectually dishonest.

This is true. Yet because they have white skin, you're likely to say they have "white privilege" despite not having been considered "white"