Check Your Privilege

You live with 34 out of 100 points of privilege.
You’re not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You’ve had your fair share of struggles, and you’ve worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.

Check the other thread. I am SO privileged. I hate this quiz.
 
ruji said:
You should get points for having the internet to take this quiz
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HAHA! So true!!! Internet, electricity, time to sit around on my comfy ass couch to take said quiz = PRIVILEGED. SJW's don't know what it's really like to be so unprivileged then, do they? Like my gender, religion, sexuality and race are the only things in this world than can effect how "privileged" one is.

Should have been more like:

If you can access this quiz, then check your privilege you spoiled ass brat and go make a sandwich for that homeless man you always ignore you ungrateful idiot!
 
Let's see... immigrant parents, check. Skin color brown, check. Surname sounds 'exotic', check. Oh, wait, I have a penis. Nope, I'm privileged.
 
yeah i dont get the privilege thing either. the only time i can see it bugging me is when someone who is *privileged* gets on their high horse and starts slamming someone disadvataged saying all they needs to do x, y and z and are lazy etc. A lot of times this isn't the case, but I view it more as them needing either to grow up or get fucked...not so much privelege.
 
I'm white. Does it get any better than that?
 
Ok im sorry, but it fucking pisses me off when i see people bashing people like immigrants and homeless people for having smart phones. Maybe it takes getting to the point where youre really fucking poor to realise how essential these things are.

I've been homeless...smart phones werent as common when I was homeless, but i had a phone. I NEEDED that phone. Just because one is homeless does not make them less than human. I needed my phone so i could make appointments, so i could hear from my social worker etc. Without my phone life would have been so much harder. Even though i dont have much money now, i make the internet a priority because EVERYTHING has switched to online accounts....online billing etc. If I don't have online billing, I pay up to 20% more on some bills. Places will give you discounts for doing everything online.

The library isnt always accessible or convenient.

Just because everyone went without phones 30 years ago doesnt mean thats how the world works now. You cant expect someone to live in the 80s when the world we live in has kids using fucking ipads for school work. People won't care or make allowances for you.

All appointments that are changed or cancelled are done by EMAIL. If you cant access your email...which seems to be required these days....you get in trouble.

/endrant
 
sprinkles said:
Pft even homeless people have smartphones now.
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This is only partly true: http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/faq/obama-phone
In spirit, this is a charitable redistribution of wealth and may help low-income families with installation of landline and cell phones following the same guidelines and format TANIF, SNAP, Medicaid, etc. do.

This quiz "gets you a double redundancy," Flavus. :tongue: I think that privilege is still (sadly) the linchpin of social change in cosmopolitan, multicultural society. (Kant must be turning in his grave...)
 
Amanki said:
This is only partly true: http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/faq/obama-phone
In spirit, this is a charitable redistribution of wealth and may help low-income families with installation of landline and cell phones following the same guidelines and format TANIF, SNAP, Medicaid, etc. do.

This quiz "gets you a double redundancy," Flavus. :tongue: I think that privilege is still (sadly) the linchpin of social change in cosmopolitan, multicultural society. (Kant must be turning in his grave...)
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I don't understand how people who were lucky - in the real sense - to be born into certain circumstances, and have studied/worked/trained hard end up being a problem to the less privileged, or those who claim to have 'real' interest in the privilege-lean.
 
Flavus Aquila said:
I don't understand how people who were lucky - in the real sense - to be born into certain circumstances, and have studied/worked/trained hard end up being a problem to the less privileged, or those who claim to have 'real' interest in the privilege-lean.
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Your opening post may be perceived as self-referencing or antagonistic in an already politically polarizing debate. It's important to understand the circumstances of others in the class struggle and recognize that their priorities, education, and cultures vary remarkably from each other. People (for instance, immigrants, single-parent families in poverty, political refugees) with little social capital and material wealth work considerably harder to maintain the most basic human needs given the added obstacles of having less specified education, poor fluency, and simply not having membership in the majority culture. Then there are solidly middle-class specialist like nurses, teachers, bureaucrats that require years of schooling for entrance into a wealth category i.e. prettier cars, more vacation, medical insurance, time for hobbies and self-actualization. The luck you attribute to your station does not preclude you from the social inconveniences of what behaviorists fancily call the human condition; you are categorically the same as anyone else and thus people feel the resentment and basic political unfairness of having to work away their lives (myself included) while some know luxury that was not earned, except by inheritance. My suggestion is to redefine what the real value of work is, that is, start from scratch and see (with unclouded eyes) the inherent human capital that runs your life.
 
A score of 34 = no privilege? Sounds like you have 34 points of privilege.
 
Amanki said:
This is only partly true: http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/faq/obama-phone
In spirit, this is a charitable redistribution of wealth and may help low-income families with installation of landline and cell phones following the same guidelines and format TANIF, SNAP, Medicaid, etc. do.

This quiz "gets you a double redundancy," Flavus. :tongue: I think that privilege is still (sadly) the linchpin of social change in cosmopolitan, multicultural society. (Kant must be turning in his grave...)
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I wasn't serious. I was satirizing the proliferation of smartphones.

I hate smartphones and the fact that this is even partly true disgusts me.
 
Katniss Neverbeef said:
Ok im sorry, but it fucking pisses me off when i see people bashing people like immigrants and homeless people for having smart phones. Maybe it takes getting to the point where youre really fucking poor to realise how essential these things are.

I've been homeless...smart phones werent as common when I was homeless, but i had a phone. I NEEDED that phone. Just because one is homeless does not make them less than human. I needed my phone so i could make appointments, so i could hear from my social worker etc. Without my phone life would have been so much harder. Even though i dont have much money now, i make the internet a priority because EVERYTHING has switched to online accounts....online billing etc. If I don't have online billing, I pay up to 20% more on some bills. Places will give you discounts for doing everything online.

The library isnt always accessible or convenient.

Just because everyone went without phones 30 years ago doesnt mean thats how the world works now. You cant expect someone to live in the 80s when the world we live in has kids using fucking ipads for school work. People won't care or make allowances for you.

All appointments that are changed or cancelled are done by EMAIL. If you cant access your email...which seems to be required these days....you get in trouble.

/endrant
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You're not a person if you don't have a smartphone anymore.

Pretty soon you won't be a person if you DO have a smartphone because the smartphone will become your person. You'll just be the meatbag that carries around your important technology.
 
Amanki said:
Your opening post may be perceived as self-referencing or antagonistic in an already politically polarizing debate. It's important to understand the circumstances of others in the class struggle and recognize that their priorities, education, and cultures vary remarkably from each other. People (for instance, immigrants, single-parent families in poverty, political refugees) with little social capital and material wealth work considerably harder to maintain the most basic human needs given the added obstacles of having less specified education, poor fluency, and simply not having membership in the majority culture. Then there are solidly middle-class specialist like nurses, teachers, bureaucrats that require years of schooling for entrance into a wealth category i.e. prettier cars, more vacation, medical insurance, time for hobbies and self-actualization. The luck you attribute to your station does not preclude you from the social inconveniences of what behaviorists fancily call the human condition; you are categorically the same as anyone else and thus people feel the resentment and basic political unfairness of having to work away their lives (myself included) while some know luxury that was not earned, except by inheritance. My suggestion is to redefine what the real value of work is, that is, start from scratch and see (with unclouded eyes) the inherent human capital that runs your life.
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My opening post was the online test title, a link, and a cut-and-paste of my test results.

That is standard format on this forum.

How you feel it might be antagonistic doesn't make any sense to me.
 
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