Poverty |
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Unlike 50% of the world, I have always had access to clean, potable water. |
| 2 |
I don't know anyone who does NOT have access to clean, potable water, and until I read the above, did not know the percentage of world population that does not have this benefit. |
| 3 |
I don't know anyone who died from malaria. |
| 4 |
I don't know anyone who died from malnutrition. |
| 5 |
I don't know anyone living on less than US$1000 per year. |
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Government, Education, Internet |
| 6 |
I live in a country where the average citizen has a life expectancy over age 40. |
| 7 |
I live in a country that has a literacy rate of over 95%. |
| 8 |
I have a connection to the Internet either personally or through a library in my city, and through that, can access the repository of the world's knowledge with a few keystrokes. |
| 9 |
My country does not enact nationwide internet censorship and will not forbid me from reading articles or posting comments critical of my country's leaders or policies. |
| 10 |
My country does not jail or execute citizens who express dissent with its current leaders or government policy. |
| 11 |
From age six to eighteen, I have access to a public education system that is free to residents of my community. |
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White, Heterosexual Males (others, please skip down to next section) |
| 12 |
If I am financially successful, I am told the only reason I have a comfortable lifestyle is because of my 'white privilege' - any hard work, risk-taking or personal work ethic I applied to better myself during my schooling or career is discounted. I am obligated to 'share the wealth' and endure confiscatory taxes of my income and investments as 'reparations' to nonwhite strangers I'm presumed to have oppressed on my way to to top. |
| 13 |
If I am financially/professionally unsuccessful, I am solely responsible for my failures and can expect to be openly ridiculed by mainstream culture ('hick' 'poor white trash' etc). |
| 14 |
I must never acknowledge reverse-racism/anti-white discrimination; the existence of women-only fitness clubs, race-gerrymandered college admissions or government set-aside contracts for less-qualified competitors are all legitimate recourse against centuries of oppression perpetrated by people of my skin tone/gender. |
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NON-White Heterosexual Males (N-WHM) |
| 15 |
If I start a business, there exists an entire federal bureau dedicated to granting me access to capital, consulting and mentoring, based on my ethnicity or gender. |
| 16 |
There exists advocacy groups of my specific ethnicity/gender/sexual orientation, who strongarm special privileges for my group from governments and give me access to free legal and media representation if I ever feel aggrieved by a WHM and wish to make a big to-do about it. |
| 17 |
There exists Oppression Studies majors at most universities where students can earn bachelor's and even advanced degrees just by studying/cataloging how those with my ethnicity/gender/sexual orientation don't have it as good as WHMs. |
| 18 |
If I, as a minority, express an opinion skeptical of the notion of 'white privilege,' I will be scolded as a 'self-hating [minority type]' who has 'internalized my oppression;' there is only one correct opinion to have on the matter and if I dissent, I can expect to be branded a 'race traitor.' |
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pjammer) wrote,
productive
o it seems the 'privilege meme' (authored by Will Barrett) has been making the rounds; people bold the things that are true about their upbringing from this list as a way to showcase how much 'privilege' (read: unfair advantage) they had over their peers - perhaps supposed to feel guilty about it?