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I think the point is that whole collectively one group may be more privileged, people are individuals and not a collective. For example a black child born into
by charrondev 5y ago
I think the point is that whole collectively one group may be more privileged, people are individuals and not a collective.
For example a black child born into extreme or moderate wealth is undoubtedly more privileged than a white child that is orphaned at a young age.
- capitol_ 5y agoThere is always statistical outliers in any large data set, but they don't affect the median value significantly.
- bart_spoon 5y agoThis is in no way a rebuttal to what they said. The point is that privilege very well may exist and be a valid concept surrounding an aggregate, but be a invalid tool for comparing individuals.
- psychometry 5y agoWho's using it to compare individuals? The entire discussion revolves around populations and institutions.
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- psychometry 5y agoConditionality is applied in the concept: Privilege is essentially the difference in outcomes ascribed to two otherwise identical people due to a particular disadvantage that members of one group suffer but members of the other group don't.
- bart_spoon 5y agoThis is also known as an ecological fallacy [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy