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(37,573 posts)me facing the hardship of living in a trailer with no facilities while his life included the "hardship" of a trip to Europe.
How about YOU having some empathy for people whose lives have been so sh*tty that they cannot help but feel sorry for themselves?
The point is that some white people face a hell of a lot of hardships. And it is NOT a privilege to face all those hardships. And some black people face fewer hardships than some white people.
Sure if you took the white person who is between a rock and a hard place and whose life was beating the crap out of him, MAYBE he'd have a slightly worse time of it if he was black, or female, or LGBTQ. But it is STILL the height of absurdity to tell somebody between a rock and a hard place whose life is beating the crap out of them, that they are "privileged". That they need to feel some empathy towards poor, poor Levar Burton (caveat, he may have really faced some severe hardships).
You are asking un-privileged people to NOT look up, to just IGNORE, all the people above them who have more money and more wealth. Like those people don't count. You say to them "sure, your life is sh*ttier than 80% of the population, but if you were black or female in the same crappy circumstances, your life would be even sh*ttier."
Well, THAT's certainly one hell of a consolation prize.
Or not.
As I said, I find it both insulting, and untrue. Why should only people in the same or worse circumstances count, instead of the big picture where so many other people are seemingly in better circumstances?