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Yeah, that's entitlement, not privilege. Look at the world we currently live in. Everything we do has already been done for us. Look at it from my point of vie
by rfnslyr 13y ago
Yeah, that's entitlement, not privilege. Look at the world we currently live in. Everything we do has already been done for us.
Look at it from my point of view. I now live in a world where:
- I don't ever have to think about money, or food, or basic necessities
- Everything I do is simply making use of all the shit that has been delivered right to my doorstep
Define "harder", because if you are struggling in the first world with such intangibles like race, skin color, and sexuality, then you really need to check yourself and realize how good you have it.
Because some random manager or someone formed an initial bias about you based on your outward appearance is not privilege, it's personal bias and we all have it.
The fact that I work at arguably the whitest place to work (largest investment bank in a first world country) that employs over 50% females of all varieties already wrecks your "privilege" assumption.
Do you know why? All those different people were hired solely based on their work and experience, nothing else.
I see all these articles and postings about what white privilege affords me, but none of it is concrete. I can't find anything tangible, where someone was explicitly discriminated against in the tech industry for their skin color or sexual preference.
I'm also gay as it fucking gets, yet I don't go around flaunting it and start making it a problem, to the point where my life revolves around my sexuality.
- ceejayoz 13y ago> Do you know why? All those different people were hired solely based on their work and experience, nothing else. This is demonstrably false on a non-anecdotal scale. http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.html http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.htm...