(April 5, 2017 at 11:43 pm)surreptitious57 Wrote: I accept privilege exists. Here in the West where straight white male is the default position any one who belongs to that demographic is automatically privileged regardless of any
thing else.
This is complete bullshit. Class has more to do with "privilege" than race ever will.
Do you have clean water to drink? Then you're privileged.
Do you know where your next meal is coming from? Then you're privileged.
Are you on a computer right now? You're privileged.
Do you spend your days wondering the streets and your nights under bridges or in homeless shelters? No? Then you're privileged.
We all face adversity in life... granted some face more than others. But this whole privilege thing is such a fucking victim's attitude it is disgusting. I have succeeded in my life DESPITE the shit I've gone through... not because I'm white. You work hard and learn how to play the game and you get ahead in life. Period. If you're not willing to work hard or play the game, you deserve to be a fucking loser. Period.
You know who I feel sorry for? People who legitimately have real health problems that prevent them from living a happy, healthy life. Kids who get cancer before they're old enough to talk. People who legitimately don't have access to clean water, food or shelter. Some people truly are dealt a shitty hand in life and all these buzzfeed reading liberal assholes that push this "privilege" nonsense down our throats like a gluten free, vegan friendly spoon of dogshit are not doing anything to help anyone.
Life is tough. Buck the fuck up and learn how to play the system to your advantage. Do what you need to do to get by. But don't sit around and bitch about privilege while you're sitting in starbucks on your macbook laptop drinking a nonfat decaf caramel machiatto.
I like winners. Not losers. That's why I don't hang around people who are losers. I don't hang around people who are always broke or constantly bitch about their problems. Life is going to try and beat you down the entire time you're here on this earth. but life will only win if you let it.
So tell me, am I "privileged" because I'm a straight white male or am I privileged because I have worked hard to get where I am?
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
