(March 17, 2018 at 10:46 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(March 17, 2018 at 9:34 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Privilege is a sociological term that shouldn't be dismissed just because it annoys you. And one doesn't have to be Christian in order to have a bias against the concept of privilege in general.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_(sociology)
It's really the opposite case with me. I believe that unearned advantages are so abundant that it's mostly over simplistic to attach some adjectives to the word privilege and make a phrase up.
The average person you talk to in day to day life didn't earn having a functional brain, their height, attractiveness, lung capacity, healthy bones, a lack of countless terminal diseases and cancers, their parents, their birth place, their race, their hair, their metabolism, eyesight, the time in history they're born, their voice, body proportions, body fat percentage, fast twitch muscles, financial inheritance, the list goes on....
I am very very privileged. Even if I have a terminal illness I'm not aware of or something that will kill me in the next month or so, I still have the privilege of having lived to be 33 and that's a longer lifespan than I imagine the majority of humanity has had so far. In terms of happiness being an advantage I'm probably parts of thousands of groups/demographics you could slot me into who have had an advantage in achieving being happy. Being alive in a western country, with money, in the year 2018 is pretty good. I've had all kinds of sex, all kinds of drugs, and I can watch netflix while sitting at my desk in work.
Yet, it seems to me that this is just a different way of denying the existence of privilege by saying almost everyone is privileged anyway in some way, so what's the fuss? Well, the fuss is it's very dismissive and doesn't acknowledge that certain groups of people are systemically disadvantaged across various domains due to lack of privilege.
