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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: L33Tg33k on April 14, 2014, 03:41:26 PM
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LOL. I hate buzzfeed test, but I thought this one would be fun for the boards. Do it or don't.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you (http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you)
I got 36/100
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100%
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33 like my hero lawrence bird
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People only like rockadio because he's so privileged.
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I got a 47, which I feel is kind of misleading. I have been the only member of my race/ethnicity in a room, as a teacher in a school in a community where white people don't live, this also leads to a lot of things like being told "you talk SO white" which is not a surprise, since I am. I regularly hide my sexuality at work, just to keep my kids assumptions about sexuality in check- not because I am afraid what they will think about me if I acknowledge being a heterosexual. There were some legit ones- between religion, periods of poverty, and mental health stuff there are some areas where I'm not totally privileged, but 47/100 seems mighty low...
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This test is pretty shitty.
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if you have the time and patience to finish that test you are very privileged.
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That test takes literally 5 minutes. I think it says volumes about you if you can't finish it.
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I'm supposedly more privileged than the turkey lurkey Gipper coming in hot at 48. But I really don't believe that I'm more privileged than him, horseshit !
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I actually scored myself quite generously to get the 36. As you would imagine I had to make up my answers to the significant other questions and I simply chose the positive answers. Then the sexuality questions were really binary and my sexuality isn't that straight forward, but I just chose straight. People used to call me fag all the time though. Also, I clearly "talk white" even though I'm from a poor minority majority area.
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69
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I'm supposedly more privileged than the turkey lurkey Gipper coming in hot at 48. But I really don't believe that I'm more privileged than him, horseshit !
Hey man, there is a saying in comedy: punch up. Don't make fun of me, I'm less privileged than you.
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I didn't fill out the religion questions because I don't personally have a religion. But my parents are Jewish so I guess I could've. So I guess mine was kind of misleading, especially as I went to a good school and graduated and have traveled. The only thing that would ever make me seem "unprivileged" is my sexuality. Which even then I don't feel is a detriment. I'm a white kid from the suburbs, I don't have it bad.
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You still could have answered the religion questions. There is still discrimination for lack of religion. I was kicked out of my house for a while for my atheism.
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57
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honesly though i got a 62 and thats only because my mom calls me a fairy boy
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34 :-\
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left "never been told i'm not attractive for my race" blank cuz a black guy once said i look good for a whitey. also, left never been a victim of a violent crime because of my race blank, although when i was 15 i was raped by a black man in an alleyway in DC and afterward he was going on about how he "knew white boys was gonna be dope". also, people used to ask to touch my hair all the time when i had dreads.
I got 39/100. Always next time, I guess.
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I pretend to be "just friends" with my significant other whenever there's someone more interesting and attractive around.
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60. that made no sense what so ever though.
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How does it not make sense? Do you need someone to explain to you what privilege is?
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49/100
it was interesting and a rather quick survey.
A likert scale would have been a more appropriate way to gauge people's responses, but I understand the time consuming nature of that.
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I got 25
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How does it not make sense? Do you need someone to explain to you what privilege is?
One of them that confused me was something along the lines of buying new clothes every month...does anybody do that? I would imagine there are plenty of people richer than god that don't.
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33/100.. i kinda dont agree with this 100% .. this is some typical white guilt shit
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I got a 39 and it said I am not privileged. I definitely had a stable and loving upbringing but there was rarely "spare" money. Living in an area where being white is the minority also means that being the only person of your race in the room or being on the receiving end of a racial slur is not that unusual.
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How does it not make sense? Do you need someone to explain to you what privilege is?
Definitely not a perfect test, but the implications are clear.
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So we're going to just keep posting scores and not acknowledge the fact that Rusty wuz raped?
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I didn't take it because it's Buzzfeed but I imagine I would score pretty high...
Louis CK - Being White (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY#)
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75/100
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I got 60 but I tried to keep it more realistic. Like for example when they asked if I've ever been called a racial slur, i put no. I have been called a beaner or other things but only jokingly so it doesn't really count.
I don't think I've ever really experienced legit racism/discrimination to where it affects me, so I'm pretty thankful for that, but maybe its just cus im 20 and live in southern California.
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I got 60 but that's bullshit, I am 100 percent privileged. I grew up on the West Coast of the United States, one of the richest regions on the planet.
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I got 60 but that's bullshit, I am 100 percent privileged. I grew up on the West Coast of the United States, one of the richest regions on the planet.
i didn't think of that but i guess the test is not adjusted for first world bias. we all prolly could've started at 40 or something just for being in america, maybe another 40 if you've got all your limbs. rusty, that story was horrible. sorry you had to go through that, first world or not, things are bad all over. maybe just a lot worse in other places.
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I got 60 but I tried to keep it more realistic. Like for example when they asked if I've ever been called a racial slur, i put no. I have been called a beaner or other things but only jokingly so it doesn't really count.
I don't think I've ever really experienced legit racism/discrimination to where it affects me, so I'm pretty thankful for that, but maybe its just cus im 20 and live in southern California.
I don't believe you unless you're white.
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I've got 79/100
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40.
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27
i thought i was a little better off than that, fuck.
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some of these questions are kinda backwards.
ex 1. am not nervous in airport security lines.
Is that pushed at race? Because I'm white and I get nervous as shit! "what if they find my drugs, what if someone goes loco up in the air, what if someone starts shooting up the airport"
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29 points. I still feel privileged. My hard years are behind me. :)
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27
i thought i was a little better off than that, fuck.
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some of these questions are kinda backwards.
ex 1. am not nervous in airport security lines.
Is that pushed at race? Because I'm white and I get nervous as shit! "what if they find my drugs, what if someone goes loco up in the air, what if someone starts shooting up the airport"
That hit me wierd too. I have been pulled aside at every check point since 9/11. I'm white as fuck with dark brown eyebrows btw.
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100/100
(http://morestarsthanintheheavens.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/american-psycho_m_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85-11.jpg)
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i thought i was a little better off than that, fuck.
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some of these questions are kinda backwards.
ex 1. am not nervous in airport security lines.
Is that pushed at race? Because I'm white and I get nervous as shit! "what if they find my drugs, what if someone goes loco up in the air, what if someone starts shooting up the airport"
What do eyebrows have to do with anything, and who doesn't have dark brown eyebrows?
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people with cancer
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i thought i was a little better off than that, fuck.
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some of these questions are kinda backwards.
ex 1. am not nervous in airport security lines.
Is that pushed at race? Because I'm white and I get nervous as shit! "what if they find my drugs, what if someone goes loco up in the air, what if someone starts shooting up the airport"
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mGRNG4oErrA/UFFr-k6D13I/AAAAAAAAAOY/MOjTH43XIkU/s1600/eddie_blonde_2.JPG)
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27
i thought i was a little better off than that, fuck.
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some of these questions are kinda backwards.
ex 1. am not nervous in airport security lines.
Is that pushed at race? Because I'm white and I get nervous as shit! "what if they find my drugs, what if someone goes loco up in the air, what if someone starts shooting up the airport"
I think it's aimed at whether you feel homogeneous with other Americans or not. People with vilified traits score lower: race, sexual orientation, gender identity / intersexed conditions, sexual harassment, poverty etc.
I dislike the whole check your privilege Tumblr social justice warrior thing though. We have it great. Proof: http://www.globalrichlist.com (http://www.globalrichlist.com)
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
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How does it not make sense? Do you need someone to explain to you what privilege is?
yep. they called fuccbois.
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
Have you ever been told you sound white?
Also, you just object to racial privilege as a concept, which means of course you are going to disagree with many of the questions.
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No but I've been told I sound like a yank. This survey assumes whites can't be discriminated against which is both wrong and narrow minded
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55
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No but I've been told I sound like a yank. This survey assumes whites can't be discriminated against which is both wrong and narrow minded
ha, i usedta get that in la, but i'd just act puzzled and be like 'nah, i'm a red sock, we hate the yankees' and they'd usually let it go. i've been called 'white boy' a million times growing up too.
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
I don't understand what your objection to this is. Surely you can understand the impetus for that particular question. How many times have you seen/heard of a black man being praised for "speaking so well", or not talking like "them", or being one of the "good ones"? On the flip side I can tell you that it is very alienating when people of your own race hold it against you for "talking/acting white". It is a distinct disadvantage to be ostracized from your own community while at the same time having to prove yourself to the majority that you're not truly different and a part of the community at large. Let me tell you something. When I call out ignorant worldstar hip hop modern day minstrel show behavior, or so much as understand it's significance, and I am called a "fake ass nigga" for it, it fucking hurts. When a person that I've known for years, but never had a real conversation finally has a talk with me, and his face changes to one of utter surprise because I can express myself without saying nigga ever other sentence, it fucking hurts. When I was in court because I fought off a man who ended up being an "undercover trolley security officer" attacked my brother and falsified his report of the event to the point of making me sound like a '70s pimp/gangster, it fucking hurt. And after the judge perused the report at the arraignment looked at me and immediately assumed I was guilty and called me a wannabe gangsta thug, it fucking hurt.
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And no, the survey doesn't assume white people can't be discriminated against. Understanding that being white in a white world is usually an advantage does not suggest in any way that discrimination against whites is not possible.
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sleazy you are a fucking joke.
No but I've been told I sound like a yank. This survey assumes whites can't be discriminated against which is both wrong and narrow minded
yeah dude, i'm sure life in australia would have been much easier for you if you were an aboriginal instead of a white american.
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sleazy's world view:
where being told you sound like an american because YOU ARE AMERICAN AND YOU NO DOUBT HAVE AN AMERICAN ACCENT
is the same as being black and being told 'you sound white'
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i think you oughtta say 'nigga' more. nah, but sorry ya had to go through that shit w/ the trolley guy. the nomenclature is different but they character assassinate everyone they're trying to put a case on and my buddy had a judge tell him 'i find it to be a travesty of justice that you have never served time in a state facility' when he's never even been convicted of a felony. i laugh about it and try to say 'travesty of justice' every day as a result but he was wicked upset about it.
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So we're going to just keep posting scores and not acknowledge the fact that Rusty wuz raped?
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So we're going to just keep posting scores and not acknowledge the fact that Rusty wuz raped?
I didn't want to bring attention to that for a couple reasons. I don't know how trustworthy Rusty's words or persona is, and I don't want to talk about his dreadfully painful event with a bunch of strangers unless he says more about it himself.
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42, but some of the questions were iffy.
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i thought i was a little better off than that, fuck.
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some of these questions are kinda backwards.
ex 1. am not nervous in airport security lines.
Is that pushed at race? Because I'm white and I get nervous as shit! "what if they find my drugs, what if someone goes loco up in the air, what if someone starts shooting up the airport"
Every time I go to the airport I'm really glad they are checking out the towel heads extra carefully.
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i thought i was a little better off than that, fuck.
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some of these questions are kinda backwards.
ex 1. am not nervous in airport security lines.
? ? ? Is that pushed at race? Because I'm white and I get nervous as shit! "what if they find my drugs, what if someone goes loco up in the air, what if someone starts shooting up the airport"
Every time I go to the airport I'm really glad they are checking out the towel heads extra carefully.
focus your account/life
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0/100
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So we're going to just keep posting scores and not acknowledge the fact that Rusty wuz raped?
fuck it.
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
It's worse to be told "you sound black" if you're white.
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sleazy's world view:
where being told you sound like an american because YOU ARE AMERICAN AND YOU NO DOUBT HAVE AN AMERICAN ACCENT
is the same as being black and being told 'you sound white'
IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES BEING CALLED A YANK ISN'T THE SAME AS IN AUSTRALIA YOU STUPID KOALA FUCKING CUNT.
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I think Sleazy was reffering to the time when he was living in Australia.
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I think a lot of the issue I have with quizzes like this is that it doesn't take class into account.
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yeah i know like where is my white studies class? its pretty racist
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
I've lived in Baltimore for the last two years, I'm the only white person at work. None of my co-workers have been openly discriminating towards me (despite me being intersexed, and security "ratting" me out). I don't fit in culturally but for the most part people have been very excepting. Much more so than a small 99% white town I used to live in. I was fired from a job there after I was forcibly groped by a man, and HR went over my legal documentation. They assumed I was a liability, even though I showed up to work everyday with a positive attitude and always put out good numbers. Not to mention how fast I was ostracized from people I've known for years.
Minorities (for the most part) are tolerant. Everyone wants to feel like a victim these days, but we have it good here. Shit, in some countries they'd hang me publicly.
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
I've lived in Baltimore for the last two years, I'm the only white person at work. None of my co-workers have been openly discriminating towards me (despite me being intersexed, and security "ratting" me out). I don't fit in culturally but for the most part people have been very excepting. Much more so than a small 99% white town I used to live in. I was fired from a job there after I was forcibly groped by a man, and HR went over my legal documentation. They assumed I was a liability, even though I showed up to work everyday with a positive attitude and always put out good numbers. Not to mention how fast I was ostracized from people I've known for years.
Minorities (for the most part) are tolerant. Everyone wants to feel like a victim these days, but we have it good here. Shit, in some countries they'd hang me publicly.
i don't think i'd agree that 'minorities are tolerant'. obviously it comes down to the individual but black and mexican people are more tolerant than peurto ricans or asians on average. each group is different. small white towns run the gamut too. laramie, wy is one of the more open minded places regardless of it's media image. sucks about the old job and all that stuff.
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
I heard if you visit china and you're white they think your a celebrity. My cousin went there a few years back and came back with mad photos with Hunan bunnies and said getting it in was easier than finding toilet paper.
Bonus!
watch the first few seconds of this clip, plus eddie huang is dope.
http://www.vice.com/fresh-off-the-boat/fresh-off-the-boat-chengdu-part-1 (http://www.vice.com/fresh-off-the-boat/fresh-off-the-boat-chengdu-part-1)
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I've lived in Baltimore for the last two years, I'm the only white person at work. None of my co-workers have been openly discriminating towards me (despite me being intersexed, and security "ratting" me out). I don't fit in culturally but for the most part people have been very excepting. Much more so than a small 99% white town I used to live in. I was fired from a job there after I was forcibly groped by a man, and HR went over my legal documentation. They assumed I was a liability, even though I showed up to work everyday with a positive attitude and always put out good numbers. Not to mention how fast I was ostracized from people I've known for years.
Minorities (for the most part) are tolerant. Everyone wants to feel like a victim these days, but we have it good here. Shit, in some countries they'd hang me publicly.
...lol. How many areas of Baltimore have you actually walked around in?
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
Once again, no one said discrimination against whites doesn't occur and the test doesn't suggest that. Literally no one but you said bigotry is black and white. When I said white world, I wasn't talking about numbers, I'm talking about influence. Whether you're in China (which you're fucking not and if you were there'd be a whole different set of classes to be talking about) or America or Australia, everyone knows the score. The West is at the top of the heap at the moment, and when people say the West, they mean white people. Are you aware that businesses in China hire whites for high paying do nothing jobs because having a white is a corporate status symbol? The stereotype that blacks are stupid and violent is a worldwide phenomenon along with lots of other stereotypes for lots of other types of people. The fact that you are insulated from having certain experiences is an advantage, i.e., privilege. Nobody assumes you are violent when they see you. You aren't many orders of magnitude more likely to be poor or incarcerated because of your birth. You are the assumed "normal" where everyone else has to be something other than. You are more likely to be described as some guy while I am more likely to be called a black guy. If you want to talk about what's laughable, it's laughable that a grown and I assume reasonably intelligent man could discount the fact of living in this point in history of white privilege. Yes, everyone is privileged in some way, but only a blind deaf and dumb man could even consider that being a white male doesn't affords you more privilege than most. I shouldn't have said laughable. Disheartening is the word I should have used. It's disheartening that a person that I somewhat respect chooses to be willfully oblivious and deny reality. The point is, despite what republicans say, there is no level playing field. Some inherently have to work twice as hard to get half the distance as others. Minorities, women, the disabled, homosexuals, the poor, and all those deemed different by society, have to start off in a hole in the playing field while the normals start on ground level. This does not discount the work and pains of the majority, but members of the majority saying they've had it just as bad as anyone else is discounting the struggles of those who had it worse.
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This is why you started this thread isn't it?
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I started this thread because I wanted to talk about something that mattered rather than how pretty Dylan. is. Don't get me wrong, Dylan. is hot, but I can only talk about that so much.
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College lol:
Interview with Suey Park/Jenn M. Jackson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzF0cqA5io#)
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
I love you
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This does not discount the work and pains of the majority, but members of the majority saying they've had it just as bad as anyone else is discounting the struggles of those who had it worse.
Who has it worse: A white paraplegic, who contracted AIDS from their drug-addicted mother during pregnancy and grew up in a trailer park in West Virgina, or Michael Jordan's black kids?
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
I've lived in Baltimore for the last two years, I'm the only white person at work. None of my co-workers have been openly discriminating towards me (despite me being intersexed, and security "ratting" me out). I don't fit in culturally but for the most part people have been very excepting. Much more so than a small 99% white town I used to live in. I was fired from a job there after I was forcibly groped by a man, and HR went over my legal documentation. They assumed I was a liability, even though I showed up to work everyday with a positive attitude and always put out good numbers. Not to mention how fast I was ostracized from people I've known for years.
Minorities (for the most part) are tolerant. Everyone wants to feel like a victim these days, but we have it good here. Shit, in some countries they'd hang me publicly.
What kind of job did you have where security would have any reason to know about your genitalia if you don't mind me asking
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"I've never been told I sound white"
yeah, really objective
i get that and it sucks that you have had these experiences. but i think a lot of people of a lot of races are probably complemented on bucking some stereo type. that survey assumes the taker is black and is very narrow. the internet is a global thing, why not make the survey less narrow? how would this work for someone living in india and experiencing the heavy class bigotry that exists there which has nothing to do with color?
and it's laughable that people suggest that it's a white world and there is no bigotry against white people going on. are you going to to go to china and claim it's a white world? haha, wtf... or go to malaysia where my dad lives? does WWII ring any bells when it comes to whites being victims? or ukraine. or white and gay in the US currently.
bigotry is only black and white if you want it to be. it's a big complicated world we live in.
the phrase should be white, rich, straight, male, catholic privilege because that's the only group that it really applies to.
i'm in no way trying to trivialize your life experience but the survey is presented as being broad and objective but really it's not. my best friend is white and gay and lives in a small town in sw louisiana with his husband. he's been told by all his friends that still talk to him that "it's cool how he's gay but doesn't seem like he's gay" because he's a macho, burly kind of guy. i don't see how that's different than being told "you sound white" as a compliment. and when i said the survey isn't objective, that was the main point i was trying to make. if it's really trying to quantify where everyone fits on the spectrum then it shouldn't assume that white means at the top because it's just not that simple.
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^I don't think the Catholic bit is irrelevant.
In the USA white men have less of a chance to get racially profiled by the police, be born into poverty, or be consciously or subconsciously discriminated by a potential employer. Most people know this, what is the point of this thread? Are we trying to increase SLAP awareness and ridicule or take your anger out on the ignorant stragglers? As a US black man you still have a much higher opportunity to get paid and try to make a good life for yourself than the vast majority of minorities (and some majority) groups around the world. The world is bigger than the USA and it's a dangerous, imperfect place. If Chris Gardner can do it, so can you. You just need some inspiration, quit feeling sorry for yourself all the time and go fuck bitches, get money.
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The fact that I'm reading this thread from a private villa in port santa Maria while the natives are cleaning my bathrooms speaks volumes.
Id post a pic but the iPhone 5 camera makes too large a photo to post on slap
Edit: I don't fuck around
(http://i1335.photobucket.com/albums/w673/t0rtf3az0r/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsc6ce041f.jpg)
Edit 2: seriously I don't fuck around.
(http://i1335.photobucket.com/albums/w673/t0rtf3az0r/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpse43975dc.jpg)
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what do you do for a living bruh?
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what do you do for a living bruh?
Private contractor for law firms.
I should also add that this is for a special occasion and not something I do normally.
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^I don't think the Catholic bit is irrelevant.
In the USA white men have less of a chance to get racially profiled by the police, be born into poverty, or be consciously or subconsciously discriminated by a potential employer. Most people know this, what is the point of this thread? Are we trying to increase SLAP awareness and ridicule or take your anger out on the ignorant stragglers? As a US black man you still have a much higher opportunity to get paid and try to make a good life for yourself than the vast majority of minorities (and some majority) groups around the world. The world is bigger than the USA and it's a dangerous, imperfect place. If Chris Gardner can do it, so can you. You just need some inspiration, quit feeling sorry for yourself all the time and go fuck bitches, get money.
What the fuck are you talking about? This thread is about talking about a fucking test I got off my facebook feed which was interesting because it's a real issue that effects people everyday. To say I bring it up because I feel sorry for myself is a god damn insult. No fucking shit the world is imperfect. Understanding the inequities of the world is an important part of understanding why they exist and how to address them. And you know what? Most people have a very limited understanding of this. Spending an hour on an internet site where anybody can speak their mind will make you painfully aware of that. The fact that I even had to argue privilege's existence with a highly regarded member of this site speaks to that. Understanding others in this world is an uphill battle and I don't intend to be a part of the problem or do nothing at all while the results of inequality effect me and the rest of the world at large. At least I can precipitate change amongst the people I interact with. No shit the world is bigger than the US. It's small minded of you to think that I'm trapped in the mentality of a victim while I'm talking about the human condition. This applies to all of us. This is not a subject to be ignored or swept under the rug. People live and die by it every day. This is not about my situation and it never was. This is about human progress and those who deny it's importance, or outright deny it's existence, person that progress. No goddamn fucking shit this is bigger than my experience as a single person. You telling me to not worry about it, fuck bitches and get money is about the most self-centered lifestyle to champion and very ironic to tell a person to do while talking down to them about being myopic to the rest of the world.
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r u kidding? who the fuck respects sleazy? and do u really think this test or thread is helping anything? ugh i dont even know where to start. u need to focus on loving yourself and forget about fixing other people for a while.
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This does not discount the work and pains of the majority, but members of the majority saying they've had it just as bad as anyone else is discounting the struggles of those who had it worse.
Who has it worse: A white paraplegic, who contracted AIDS from their drug-addicted mother during pregnancy and grew up in a trailer park in West Virgina, or Michael Jordan's black kids?
That's a stupid question because it implies that either white privilege is the only form of privilege or there is no such choice. Its called intersectionality- we all have many different intersecting identities and levels of privilege within those identities. The white kid in your example is disabled, chronically ill, lacks stable family, and is poor in an economically depressed community. The black kids are wealthy, and based on the fact you don't talk about their health, disabilities, or family problems, it is probably to be assumed they are not disabled, unhealthy, or have a troubled homelife- which, by the way, is a form of privilege- the idea that your identity fits the assumed generic identity.
It goes without saying that the white kid is worse off, but its not a valid argument against white privilege, as no other element of their life is controlled.
And Vegan- the test totally considers class, its actually pretty intersectional in its approach to privilege.
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sleazy's world view:
where being told you sound like an american because YOU ARE AMERICAN AND YOU NO DOUBT HAVE AN AMERICAN ACCENT
is the same as being black and being told 'you sound white'
IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES BEING CALLED A YANK ISN'T THE SAME AS IN AUSTRALIA YOU STUPID KOALA FUCKING CUNT.
hey, you fat fuck, he lived in australia as a kid, that is what he was talking about, you are as dumb as you are fat
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It must be rough being called a yank in the south. Those bastards wouldn't even let you guys keep enslaving people! Fucking Yanks!
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This does not discount the work and pains of the majority, but members of the majority saying they've had it just as bad as anyone else is discounting the struggles of those who had it worse.
Who has it worse: A white paraplegic, who contracted AIDS from their drug-addicted mother during pregnancy and grew up in a trailer park in West Virgina, or Michael Jordan's black kids?
It goes without saying that the white kid is worse off, but its not a valid argument against white privilege, as no other element of their life is controlled.
And Vegan- the test totally considers class, its actually pretty intersectional in its approach to privilege.
Some people have to work harder than others. So what? You learn that early in life. It's not even worth contemplating.
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This does not discount the work and pains of the majority, but members of the majority saying they've had it just as bad as anyone else is discounting the struggles of those who had it worse.
Who has it worse: A white paraplegic, who contracted AIDS from their drug-addicted mother during pregnancy and grew up in a trailer park in West Virgina, or Michael Jordan's black kids?
It goes without saying that the white kid is worse off, but its not a valid argument against white privilege, as no other element of their life is controlled.
And Vegan- the test totally considers class, its actually pretty intersectional in its approach to privilege.
Some people have to work harder than others. So what? You learn that early in life. It's not even worth contemplating.
Its not that. I get that we can't all be pro skateboarders or math professors, but the culture one comes from is not necessarily being more or less able, and being more or less able does not necessarily mean one deserves more or less respect. The fact is, American culture, a derivative of European culture, tends to privilege people who are raised within European cultural standards, punishing those who are perceived to differ from them. It really is a short conversation in terms of establishing the idea, but once it is established, the question is when is there unearned privilege, and where and how does it show itself as an oppressive force.
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Having privilege is different than having an advantage.
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Fuck i want to read these arguments but i can't get past the first sentence due to being drunk. I care aout whats being talk about here, but tomorrow man... Tomorrow.
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sleazy's world view:
where being told you sound like an american because YOU ARE AMERICAN AND YOU NO DOUBT HAVE AN AMERICAN ACCENT
is the same as being black and being told 'you sound white'
IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES BEING CALLED A YANK ISN'T THE SAME AS IN AUSTRALIA YOU STUPID KOALA FUCKING CUNT.
hey, you fat fuck, he lived in australia as a kid, that is what he was talking about, you are as dumb as you are fat
Are you his mother? I'm not. I don't know where he lived as a kid. Good for him for getting out and about, must have been his whiteness that allowed it.
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Louis CK explains historical context to Jay Leno (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH2S01I5b5Y#)
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My result was 47, but you can't compare it to the situation of us americans. My parents and I flew from communist poland to germany with 50 bucks in our pockets. We had to live in a shelter for asylum seekers and my parents made their Way up. Got lots of shit for being the only 'very white' guy in the football club and being the only person with a different background in highschool. My class mates weren't allowed to visit me at home, because it was considered as the worst area in town. Had a good amount of black friends. My parents forced me to lose my polish identity. Got beaten up on the street by nazis. Today I have two passports, a German Name, speak 4-5 languages, have a university degree and I consider Myself in a priviliged situation. And people still think I'm a fag, haha.
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Wow, those questions were not guided in any manner...
I got sick of seeing the word "never" and answering rather moot statements.
I have no grand illusions about such matters, I like many, am super freaking privileged.
I mean, I do have HOT running water and a toilet that accepts feces and flushes...
Yet, my internet speed connections lacks in comparison to the rest of the worlds...
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My result was 47, but you can't compare it to the situation of us americans. My parents and I flew from communist poland to germany with 50 bucks in our pockets. We had to live in a shelter for asylum seekers and my parents made their Way up. Got lots of shit for being the only 'very white' guy in the football club and being the only person with a different background in highschool. My class mates weren't allowed to visit me at home, because it was considered as the worst area in town. Had a good amount of black friends. My parents forced me to lose my polish identity. Got beaten up on the street by nazis. Today I have two passports, a German Name, speak 4-5 languages, have a university degree and I consider Myself in a priviliged situation. And people still think I'm a fag, haha.
I scored lower than you but I'm pretty sure that I haven't had to endure as much hardship as you did growing up. The questions were skewed towards a northern American viewpoint of privilege and sometimes I can see these privileges being a roadblock in personal development meaning that you don't get to learn things the hard way. At times I pity those that have everything handed to them on a platter because in a greater world view they lack experience like you've gained. My upbringing was undeniably "privileged" despite not fitting into these perimeters.
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http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25259900/detroit-student-joins-bamn-to-lead-protest-against-u-m-admissions-office (http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25259900/detroit-student-joins-bamn-to-lead-protest-against-u-m-admissions-office)
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the best thing about being black is being judged by the worst of your people instead of the best.
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http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25259900/detroit-student-joins-bamn-to-lead-protest-against-u-m-admissions-office (http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25259900/detroit-student-joins-bamn-to-lead-protest-against-u-m-admissions-office)
i know white people who had the same GPA scores and scored higher on the ACT and also were very involved with after school academics who werent excepted to U of M. Its not an easy school to get into. just saying.
nobody gets into U of M with a ACT score of 23 either. i scored that first try. i also have a bachelors from one of the major state schools in michigan and id probably get denied to do an undergraduate degree from there.
Edit: realized that this is ridiculous after i wrote it. i know people who have done 2 years community college, had good grades and transfered to U of M no problem. out of highschool though is very hard to get in.
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Check your privilege bro. They put the noose of a rejection letter around her neck.
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the best thing about being black is being judged by the worst of your people instead of the best.
It is true. I love Condi Rice.
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http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25259900/detroit-student-joins-bamn-to-lead-protest-against-u-m-admissions-office (http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25259900/detroit-student-joins-bamn-to-lead-protest-against-u-m-admissions-office)
i know white people who had the same GPA scores and scored higher on the ACT and also were very involved with after school academics who werent excepted to U of M. Its not an easy school to get into. just saying.
Its an even harder school to get into when your high school was terrible and your community was unsafe.
And Dagger- black on black crime is a result of white on black oppression. White people are more likely to be killed by white people and black people by black people, cuz, you know, segregation.
But the Louis CK bit was rad.
Oh, here's another fun privilege one- I can flush toilet paper down my fuckin' toilet. Its like a birth right here.