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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome rich people lead difficult, miserable lives. Does that mean economic privilege doesn't exist?
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)Not even sure if this is a serious question.
WhiteTara
(29,729 posts)is an inside job.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Being rich insulates one from whole classes of bullshit, whether or not one is struggling to maintain such a lifestyle.
tazkcmo
(7,304 posts)"If you're looking in your wallet for your wealth, you'll always be poor."
hatrack
(59,596 posts).
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Uncle Joe
(58,481 posts)two whole posts.
marble falls
(57,405 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,796 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)And this isnt the first time that someone decided to devote their very first DU post to whining about what I choose to discuss and accusing me of being Bravenaks sock puppet.
Welcome to DU and thanks again for the kick, the laugh and the confirmation that I must be doing something right to generate this much interest and effort on your part!
BumRushDaShow
(129,796 posts)(and juror )
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,796 posts)since I usually hang out on the main DU homepage checking for news.
Aristus
(66,487 posts)marble falls
(57,405 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)marble falls
(57,405 posts)could just spark some empathy up instead of feeling hurt, their lives would start getting better and easier.
I admit it, sometimes my first impression is to be defensive, when I have a moment to think about it it all comes from the discomfort from discovering an unpleasant little thing about me. I'm feeling less to be defensive about these days.
Your posting isn't about you or me, its about a cultural experience that folks who look like me don't know or ignore. Most importantly folks who look like me need to realize the Black experience didn't happen in a vacuum, we were part of it and most often not necessarily a good part of it. Like PoC discovering their past, people who look like me need to discover the darker side of our own past and American experience and reconcile it. You provide a good place for us to start our work.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)I'm glad it's helping. We all have to work together to figure this out ...
ck4829
(35,094 posts)Already complaining about another poster and yet you only have one whole post.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Whoops! Gone.
Oh, well. Im sure hell be back. Theyre nothing if not persistent.
ck4829
(35,094 posts)"Suffering from affluenza"
"I'm too rich to understand the consequences of my actions, that's why I plowed my car into four people."
"I can't go to prison for sexual molestation, it will be too hard on me because I've never had a job."
Our media and politicians turns the very ennui of the rich into an asset for the rich only, you don't see this for any other class. This is economic privilege, and it's privilege being abused instead of being recognized and used as a tool for social justice (And you see this with racial and gender privilege as well).
Wounded Bear
(58,758 posts)but it sure makes misery easier to bear.
Privilege is a real thing, and exists for numerous reasons including race, wealth, class, etc.
BumRushDaShow
(129,796 posts)depending on your race.
In the courts, it allows all in that class the "privilege" to mount a far more robust defense or offense than the average citizen. But for everyday "living", the race overlay comes into play to the point of affirming LBJ's famous remark to Bill Moyers -
mythology
(9,527 posts)Moorese Bickham spent 37.5 years in prison (14 years in solitary confinement) for killing two racist cops in self defense. He got released and said he didn't regret the time in prison. That it was a glorious experience. By your "logic" we should ask if racism can have an emotional impact on people.
We have holidays for veterans, they are universally lauded, a myriad of benefits for them. And yet they have a ludicrously high rate of homelessness.
Being married has huge socioeconomic benefits, yet women are more likely to be killed by a husband/partner than anybody else.
Things can be incongruous and complicated like that.
Your approach is myopic and small. Trying to rank people's suffering is an approach that not only lacks empathy, but it also limits people to these flat 2d images defined merely by one particular characteristic, instead of complex fully fleshed out people who have their own experiences. A few years ago some store clerk worried Oprah might not be able to afford a purse. Is that example of racism as pertinent to the general impact of racism compared to a black guy getting shot by a cop or black families not getting a mortgage to buy a home? Pretty clearly not. But all three are examples of racism, even if they aren't in fact equally impactful. People are complex, don't try to reduce them to just one demographic factor.