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Actually how does one actually do that 'check your privilege'? Is it like a checklist for takeoff:'privilege on? check!'
by andi999 6y ago
Actually how does one actually do that 'check your privilege'? Is it like a checklist for takeoff:'privilege on? check!'
- shigawire 6y agoYou think about things from different socioeconomic perspectives. It should be pretty obvious that the pandemic is not a year long stay at home tea party for many people. If you only consider you experience as a wealthy tech worker you might not understand this.
- mehphp 6y agoI completely understand that I happen to have it good because I'm in the tech industry and have been unaffected financially due to the pandemic. However, I'd hardly call myself "wealthy" and it's hardly the year long tea party from my perspective either...
- neogodless 6y agoBecome aware of it and acknowledge it. Consider ways to improve your perspective around those without the same privilege, and adjust your communication so that it isn't incorporating arcane assumptions.
- tremon 6y agoAfter entering the premises, you make your way to the checkroom, hand over the items you're not supposed to wear inside, and proceed to the venue proper.
- pjc50 6y agoA couple of easy wins: - are you describing what you'd do in a situation without considering that other people are in different situations with different constraints, both external and of human fallibility? - have you said "why don't they just" or a similar form of words, without at least coming up with your own potential reasons why that might not be easy? (This is like writing "works on my machine" on a bug report. You know not to do that, so don't write "works on my lifestyle and background" on other people's bug reports about life)
- salawat 6y agoI don't know, but whenever someone tells me to check mine I cordially remind them it is an overt act of supremacy, if you will, to assign more importance to one person's adversity than another's. We all have a metaphorical bowl of sh#t to work through in life. Everybody's is different, but we all have to get through it somehow. I'm not getting or letting anyone else get held over a barrel because one person doesn't like the specifics of their own or another's tribulations. Remember folks, kindly leave your sh#tbowl yardsticks at home, and just enjoy the company of other people.
- draw_down 6y agoIt's just something people say. It doesn't mean anything real.