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In reply to the discussion: Is it productive to repeatedly remind white people of how privileged they are? [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)of anything positive.
I think I posted one OP on the subject of different privileges and some rudimentary system to judge how privileged a person is 12-18 months ago.
Part of what became apparent from that is that there are not many DUers who fit the most privileged category, i.e. White, Male, Heterosexual, Christian, non-disabled, Wealthy and extremely attractive.
Nor are there many DUers who fit the least privileged category (simply reverse all of the above).
That being the case, the vast majority of us have some positive and negative privilege.
I think the most powerful privilege is wealth. That being the case, telling a Christian, Hetero, White Male that is dirt poor that they are privileged doesn't contribute much to anything political IMHO. On the other side of that, a wealthy person (top .01%) with almost any of the other characteristics is a powerful person who can get what they want most of the time. Yes, there are wealthy DUers here and they know very well what that wealth gets them so even they don't need to be reminded of wealth privilege.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a conversation here go anything like:
Person A: "Well that behavior/belief of yours is an example of Y privilege"
Person B: "Gee, you know, you are right, I need to change that right now."
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What I see happening instead time and time again are people who get upset because their lives are not going well and they have been called "privileged". I don't think those are positive conversations.