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It's insulting for many white men who don't come from privilege - some from poor backgrounds, or rural backgrounds, or non-college educated backgrounds, or heal

It's insulting for many white men who don't come from privilege - some from poor backgrounds, or rural backgrounds, or non-college educated backgrounds, or health status, etc, etc - to pull out the hackneyed "white male privilege" stereotype here. Why not use the more accurate term for people like this, who went from a wealthy or upper-middle class home, to an Ivy, to a FAANG, to an easily funded startup? They're the elite, or the 1% of whatever similar term you want to use. Because "white male privilege" sterotypes millions of white males incorrectly. But I know it's a very popular stereotype right now among part of the population, and so often hard to resist.

runawaybottle 5y ago
I think you are 100% right. I didn’t have the words for it I guess, just the emotion, and picked something off the shelf. I’ll just add this though, I promise you 2 girls would never have gotten this funded lol. And I ain’t a girl either, or a white knight.
- monoideism 5y ago
  > I’ll just add this though, I promise you 2 girls would never have gotten this funded lol. You mean "girls", like Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the infamous Theranos [1]? Incidentally, she fits the mold I describe above: highly privileged childhood (Dad an Enron VP, highly politically connected), to Stanford, to a well-funded scam start-up with a board packed with our nation's elite (eg, former Sec of State George Shultz). And she's just the best known - there are other examples of scammy or poorly-conceived companies founded by (actually) privileged women. Yeah, most of these wealthy, privileged founders of scammy companies are white men, but some are women, and some are not white. Crucially, even if most of them are white men, they only represent a very small fraction of us. And the 1% are doing a tremendous job of playing us off each other for reasons of gender, race, etc, while they consolidate their power and privilege. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
  - runawaybottle 5y ago
    Aight, you got me. No sarcasm, we need better ways of describing this shit, I’m with you 100%. Screaming at the top of my lungs: Hey PG, I’m not a white dude or girl that went to Stanford. In fact, I did great and bad at school. So fuck you. I’m gonna take over your whole shit, so stop discriminating. Dumbass couldn’t even spot a half assed mmo clone.

runawaybottle 5y ago

I think you are 100% right. I didn’t have the words for it I guess, just the emotion, and picked something off the shelf. I’ll just add this though, I promise you 2 girls would never have gotten this funded lol. And I ain’t a girl either, or a white knight.

monoideism 5y ago
> I’ll just add this though, I promise you 2 girls would never have gotten this funded lol. You mean "girls", like Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the infamous Theranos [1]? Incidentally, she fits the mold I describe above: highly privileged childhood (Dad an Enron VP, highly politically connected), to Stanford, to a well-funded scam start-up with a board packed with our nation's elite (eg, former Sec of State George Shultz). And she's just the best known - there are other examples of scammy or poorly-conceived companies founded by (actually) privileged women. Yeah, most of these wealthy, privileged founders of scammy companies are white men, but some are women, and some are not white. Crucially, even if most of them are white men, they only represent a very small fraction of us. And the 1% are doing a tremendous job of playing us off each other for reasons of gender, race, etc, while they consolidate their power and privilege. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
- runawaybottle 5y ago
  Aight, you got me. No sarcasm, we need better ways of describing this shit, I’m with you 100%. Screaming at the top of my lungs: Hey PG, I’m not a white dude or girl that went to Stanford. In fact, I did great and bad at school. So fuck you. I’m gonna take over your whole shit, so stop discriminating. Dumbass couldn’t even spot a half assed mmo clone.