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If you're not in a place of privilege life is politics. A old co-worker of mine couldn't get permanent residency for their legal partner. As a result rather th
by vvanders 6y ago
If you're not in a place of privilege life is politics.
A old co-worker of mine couldn't get permanent residency for their legal partner. As a result rather than staying in the US they both moved back to Canada.
Honestly I don't blame them, sometimes I wonder if the US survives in spite of our political policies instead of because of them.
- refurb 6y agoIf you're not in a place of privilege life is politics. Hoping from country to country with your pick of jobs isn't privilege? I'd say it's the opposite. Those without privilege are the ones that don't have that option.
- vvanders 6y agoPrivilege isn't a binary thing, it exists along many dimensions. I'd hope you could understand that just because someone has a finite set of options doesn't mean they can't be impacted significantly by political policy due to society putting less value on who they are or where they come from.
- majormajor 6y agoYou can have privilege in job selection without privilege in certain other things that America would deny you while Canada would grant you...
- mushbino 6y agoYou mean like migrant workers? Many people have to leave their country to find work and most of them nobody would call privileged.
- refurb 6y agoNo, I mean educated, highly paid workers with access to multiple western countries choosing which country to reside in. That’s a luxury 99% of the world doesn’t have. Hell, I’d guess almost half of Americans can’t do that.
- mushbino 6y agoThat specific example is most certainly privilege. Being able to find gainful employment where you live is usually hard to come by. The overwhelming majority of people who _have_ to leave their home country in order to find work are definitely not privileged.