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> I apologise if what I just typed seems obvious, No need to apologize, since what you've typed is far from obvious. To begin with, I did not assert that only
by jnbiche 11y ago
> I apologise if what I just typed seems obvious,
No need to apologize, since what you've typed is far from obvious. To begin with, I did not assert that only Presidents are privileged. Not even close. For example, I would consider neither Bill Clinton nor Barack Obama to come from privilege like George Bush. And George Bush would have been privileged whether or not he was president. I would have thought that was obvious.
And if you're going to dive into relativity of life suckiness, they surely the white refugee child from a poverty-stricken family in the Caucasus, whose mother and father have been gunned down and most of her village killed, would be relatively unprivileged compared to almost any American, regardless of skin color. Same for the refugee child from war-torn Afghanistan, usually ranked as one of the very poorest and unhealthiest countries in the world, unless you decide to exempt South Asians from the magical category of "privileged".
- pessimizer 11y ago>People like George Bush are privileged I had to pick some meaning for this phrase to have. The 'like' here is problematic, because we are all like George Bush in many ways. What did you mean to say here? >And if you're going to dive into relativity of life suckiness, they surely the white refugee child from a poverty-stricken family in the Caucasus, whose mother and father have been gunned down and most of her village killed, would be relatively unprivileged compared to almost any American, regardless of skin color. Same for the refugee child from war-torn Afghanistan, usually ranked as one of the very poorest and unhealthiest countries in the world, unless you decide to exempt South Asians from the magical category of "privileged". Yes, these are people who would think that you or I are privileged. I'm wondering why you think they're wrong.