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Question: Where do you rank on the "privilege index"?
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Author Topic: Where do you rank on the "privilege index"?  (Read 5721 times)
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
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Posts: 113,379
Ukraine


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E: -6.50, S: -6.67

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« on: January 11, 2015, 11:36:44 PM »

As explained by some guy speaking at church once about checking privilege, where he touched on the five ways in that which he personally has lots of power and privilege:

1-He's White
2-He's Male
3-He's Straight
4-He's American
5-He's Christian (though he prefaced this by saying that many would dispute that)

Like him I also score a 5, so yes, I'm aware of my privilege.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,379
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2015, 11:44:13 PM »
« Edited: January 11, 2015, 11:46:16 PM by incredibly specific types of post-punk music »

2 (although Canada's just as privileged)
I've stopped identifying as Christian as a kid, but BRTD's church sounds interesting.

It's basically a bunch of young liberal white people waving their arms around in the air and doing lots of shaking to post-hardcore and indie rock-ish renditions of worship songs and hymns and listening to someone give an Upworth-esque talk about Jesus was the original Tumblr SJW.

The rest of the "sermon" (more of a monologue, as this guy was just some guy from the worship band and not an actual pastor) was mostly him talking about the Ferguson shooting and CIA torture documents.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,379
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2015, 01:07:27 AM »

To be fair, I'm pretty sure when he said "I'm American" it was just a shorthand way of saying "I live in a developed Western country." If he was speaking in Canada, Australia or Austria the point and what he said wouldn't be much different.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,379
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2015, 08:38:35 AM »

I have a hard time seeing how being American makes you more privileged than being West European, considering the latter enjoys a far better standard of living.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure when he said "I'm American" it was just a shorthand way of saying "I live in a developed Western country." If he was speaking in Canada, Australia or Austria the point and what he said wouldn't be much different.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,379
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2015, 11:10:17 AM »

Being a Christian makes you privileged in the US but it's a negative in many countries in the world (mildly so in Sweden, severely so in most of the Middle East).

Wow, Sweden really does sound amazing sometimes.  Nice to see that my Scandanavian brethren give those nasty Christians what-for. 

I'm a 4, btw.

You clearly aren't familiar with the Church of Sweden if you think they are "nasty Christians".
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,379
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2015, 11:21:53 AM »

3, but in reality 4 since it is hard to argue Danes are less privileged than Americans.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure when he said "I'm American" it was just a shorthand way of saying "I live in a developed Western country." If he was speaking in Canada, Australia or Austria the point and what he said wouldn't be much different.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
*****
Posts: 113,379
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2015, 12:20:08 PM »

Not a bad chart but the income bracket is kind of clunky since it's missing tons of numbers, I don't fit anywhere there because I make between $30k and $45k a year for example.
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