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04-21-2014, 07:42 PM
How Privileged Are You?
You live with 31 out of 100 points of privilege.
You’re not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You’ve had your fair share of struggles, and you’ve worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.
I think that's ironic given the fact that I'm "privileged" as hell. I am white and live in the u.s.. Sure I'm broke but i'm better off then a lot.
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04-21-2014, 07:44 PM
44 out of 100
You’re not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You’ve had your fair share of struggles, and you’ve worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.
Funny cause I do feel that I've had a way easier life then many other people but I would attribute it to growing up in the United States with great parents rather than being a white heterosexual Christian male (I'm not even white)..
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04-21-2014, 07:51 PM
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04-21-2014, 07:52 PM
44, also 'priviledged as hell' as skye would say. The stereotypes that can be drawn about white males from the questions in the article are insane. Its like writing "do you like fried chicken" "do you like watermelon" and being surprised when people don't like your survey.
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04-21-2014, 07:54 PM
The quiz makes it seem like the poor homosexuals have it so bad in life. In American cities they're catered to. Dupont Circle is gay paradise.
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04-21-2014, 08:11 PM
Again, the left has become like the nuns were in Catholic school: whipping their followers into an orgy of self-flagellation for the (imagined) sin of having it so good.
There are a slew of problems here, but I'll point out two:
1). The highest rate of suicide is amongst the most "privileged" set, white men. The fact that they want to invalidate a troubled demographic and then lay guilt at their feet speaks volumes. They're the bullies.
2). This is starting to cause blowback and create more prejudice. At some point, people think "Isn't privilege earned?" and then start looking up all the things white men invented and realizing that's how Western Civilization was built. This is what happened with Roissy/Heartiste, I think. Ergo, they're unwittingly creating "racists" and "sexists." Which, of course, keeps them in business.
The takeaway is that when you trash a group of people, those people will inevitably get defensive and see you as the enemy when they might not have before. So where you previously had a "melting pot," we're now breeding white men who see themselves as completely removed from minorities and women (perhaps even the enemy of those groups), thanks to this kind of thing.
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04-21-2014, 08:11 PM
71/100. Shout out to the patriarchy and my hetero-normative parents.
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04-21-2014, 08:12 PM
LOL I couldn't stop laughing while taking this "test"... I feel sorry for people who actually "check their privilege" in real life. WTF is wrong with people.
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04-21-2014, 08:22 PM
I also think some questions are just trivial. Ofcourse I've been called a fag, I'm a man in America. My last notch and my own mother have called me a fag, it's perhaps ironic or a shittest less than serious but still.
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04-21-2014, 08:22 PM
66.
Hardworking, entrepreneurial parents.
Fuck privilege, my family earned it.
And yeah, Sky, US male? Every single one has. I most certainly have been called a fag. I had a girl tell me she thought I was gay when she met me, after sex. Im a well dressed college male, we're a rarity apparently.
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04-21-2014, 08:37 PM
29 out of 100. I have no privilege. Yet I don't feel gipped.
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04-21-2014, 08:55 PM
You live with 76 out of 100 points of privilege.
You’re among the most privileged people in the world. We don’t live in an ideal world, but you happened to be born into an ideal lot. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. It just means a lot of other people in the world don’t live life with the advantages you have, and that’s something you should always be aware of. Hey, the fact that you took the time and effort to check your privilege means that you’re already trying.
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04-21-2014, 09:46 PM
38/100 I guess I'm not privileged.
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04-21-2014, 09:51 PM
You live with 67 out of 100 points of privilege.
You’re quite privileged. You’ve had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don’t have them. Thank you for checking your privilege.
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04-21-2014, 11:36 PM
You live with 86 out of 100 points of privilege.
You’re among the most privileged people in the world. We don’t live in an ideal world, but you happened to be born into an ideal lot. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. It just means a lot of other people in the world don’t live life with the advantages you have, and that’s something you should always be aware of. Hey, the fact that you took the time and effort to check your privilege means that you’re already trying.
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04-22-2014, 12:44 AM
Half of the questions were about gays and trannies...
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04-22-2014, 01:19 AM
40/100 and I left a comment outing my identity and score. Hopefully troll responses hit me in bulk so I can't guilt trip them on inclusiveness via reverse psychology (but isn't so&so movement about equality..?)