>I am from the peasant-worker family. My ancestors never belonged to the "higher class" of any sort >I am from Poland, a country that never oppressed or colonized anyone >I am an eastern European, so people of West see me as the dumber, poorer version of themselves >I am a manlet, so the women see me as a literal trash, something not even worth considering in terms of breeding >And yet, according the left, I am somehow "privileged" for the sole fact of being straight, white, blue-eyed blonde man.
Can someone explain that to me?
Luis Perry
I met Poles like you in Sweden You can get shitfaced and the Swedes won't know what to do aside from smile politely
Logan Sanchez
Yes, it's easy to explain.
None of those things have to do with privilege. Privilege is not 'has an easy life', it's 'has a set of serious, often invisible advantages on life denied to others'. I could get whiny about using 'privilege' as the term instead of something that fits better, but I wasn't in academia 50 years ago when the concept came up so that's out of my hands.
Jose Phillips
I'm descended from circus folk.
Oliver Morgan
>has a set of serious, often invisible advantages on life denied to others
So what are these """advantages""" in my case, and how are they supposed to cunter-balance the disadvantages mentioned above?
Luis Reyes
Seeing all the polish immigrants here, i'm growing warmer for your people. First i thought you were all trash, and most of you people are. But violent crime is way lower compared to shitskins, so i guess we need to kinda accept poles as white people i guess...
Gabriel Jenkins
The advantage of being able to cooperate with your own people not killing them because they have a shiny trinket or a loaf of bread like some jungle nigger.
Sebastian Bailey
They aren't meant to counterbalance the things mentioned above.
As for what some of them are, go google the list. It's seriously that easy. Being the dominant color in a near monocultural society would be one, the presumed competence of males is another, the ability to project threat at any given second in relation to those around you would be a third, and so on. It doesn't mean these are bad things, or things you've done wrong, or things to be guilty of, it's just little advantages that add up over time.
People tend to get this impression privilege is a sledgehammer, but that's just stupid teenieboppers from Tumblr not getting how it works. In the real world, one combats privilege by being aware of it and trying to spread it to those who DON'T have it, thus evening the field.
Grayson Edwards
Did you learn this in college or do you actively search for this information?
James Evans
>Can someone explain that to me? Every country/culture has its retards, user.
Leo Taylor
Such advantages don't actually exist. You forgot that part.
Hunter Brown
I had to actively search it out over time and experience. I wasn't able to go to college back in the day.
Jackson Thompson
You've got privilege of not blaming others for your life. You can strive for better life ,take credit of your success and understand that your faults are yours and yours only. You've got no safenet of 'Institutionalized Hate' or 'Patriarchal Society' that would take blame of your failures, you have to face that you're not perfect, learn the lesson and contunue your life wiser. You've got privilege of being a free man.
Gabriel Rogers
Why are you interested in this kind of stuff? Kinda hard for me to understand.
Jacob Mitchell
That's not privilege, that's reality. If you're a minority race in a country, you're in the minority. Males ARE more competent. As a man I project threat at all times, because I'm masculine. Just because others lack these things doesn't mean they should be compensated in some way, you marxist faggot.
Aiden Green
Seeing all the arguments over it and watching both sides that were obvious to me left me realizing there was a LOT not being said, so I started reading about where it came from and what the academic, not street, meaning was supposed to be. Then I just kept reading because the academic part made sense, the street part was stupid. It needs people explaining the concept, not insulting others over it in some kind of competition. >males ARE more competent Only at some things, but that's a whole other thread. Yah, exactly, but that doesn't make these things any less ~~valuable~~ to the person recieving them. Yes, being a minority means you're in the minority and that's exactly the point of privilege. By RECOGNIZING that you have more 'automatic respect' than they do, your voice speaking up for them ~means more~. You use your privilege...to help those with less privilege. And that's literally all it's about.
Anyone saying otherwise is trying to control you. Don't let evil people ruin good concepts.
Jack Ortiz
First part of this was meant for , sorry.
Levi Ross
Because you have the genetic ability to be a net positive on the world unlike the vast majority of women and nonwhite males
Jose White
>By RECOGNIZING that you have more 'automatic respect' than they do, your voice speaking up for them ~means more~. Wrong. I give everyone the amount of respect they've earned. I just wrote that men are more capable than women, but I'll give a capable woman respect before I'll give an incapable man, because she's earned it. What about you? Tell me about someone with more privilege speaking up for you.
Asher Allen
>le. First i thought you were all trash, and most of you people are. But violent crime is w we didnt send our best to western countries. visit us some time, you will change your mind about us.
William Perry
> Being the dominant color in a near monocultural society would be one
If everyone in Poland is white, how exactly being white is a privilege? Again whom?
> the presumed competence of males is another,
Presumed competence comes with zero tolerance for failure and onus of responsibility -- which you have conveniently left out.
> the ability to project threat
Which comes with the price that you may have to get yourself killed to protect those who cannot project threat.
Ryan Gonzalez
>The advantage of being able to cooperate with your own people
That's literally something everyone has (except for Africans mayeb)
What I'm trying to say is that 1. My nation never "benefited from slavery", and yet, I am automatically treated as if it did. 2. I never inherited any special privilege due to my family's social status. I started off just like any other regular member of the society, in a country with a comletely different cultural conditions than USA. Yet, the left will treat me exactly as the rest of white western men, just because of my skin color. 3. A short height IS an obstacle in both private and professional life, as proven by the science, especially in case of men. Yet, nobody cares about that obvious "injustice".
You aren't going to convince me that I have a "privilege" of any kind.
Aaron Scott
...I'm not certain what 'wrong' is in reference to; nothing you wrote contradicts what I said in any way. Just because you 'respect them more' (in the example) doesn't mean that your voice doesn't speak up more or less (as perceived by others). That said, I agree with your note about giving respect more to those who try to earn some, that's common conservative thought and I was raised in the midwest, so we pretty much share that.
I don't get what you're asking me at the end.
Parker Edwards
Being the dominant race means fuck all when everyone in a country is the same race. Being assumed more competent comes with the disadvantage of people having higher standard for you and tolerating less mistakes. Being assumed able to project violence can get you hurt or killed by someone who's afraid of you, or more likely to get arrested, I don't see how that's an advantage at all.
Josiah Cox
>I am from Poland, a country that never oppressed or colonized anyone
You murdered 6,000,000 ethnic Germans giving Hitler no choice but to invade as a humanitarian measure.
Nathan Martin
But you did murder a shit load of Jews just for being Jews.
Josiah Foster
No one ever said that privileges were employed completely free of possible consequence regardless of situation. It doesn't take but a couple of seconds to realize this is true of all things.
>you can't convince me I don't need to. It's blatantly obvious to everyone who doesn't feel threatened by recognizing the areas of life they're blessed in. Anyone who isn't that intelligent isn't someone I care to discourse with anyway.
Easton Gonzalez
>But you did murder a shit load of Jews just for being Jews.
No Jew has ever been harmed in history.
Nolan Young
Nie pierdol, chodź na piwo.
Daniel Hill
Of course, how could I forget.
James James
>>I am from Poland, a country that never oppressed or colonized anyone oh really?
Justin Lewis
Yes, really. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a consensual union.
Leo Martinez
Technically Lithuanians conquered Eastern lands, Poland has united into commonwealth with Lithuania so we got no blood on our hands.
Adam Murphy
You wont let in those poor refugees, you helped the nazis murder jews during ww2 and you dont have universal healthcare. You are priviliged because you wont get shot by police for being black and you are more likely to be hired. Accept your privilige, bigot. We dont like that attitude her on pol on Sup Forums forum
Evan Roberts
It's ok polebro I've always liked you guys. Beautiful country
Cooper Taylor
>you helped the nazis murder jews during ww2 How could we help the Nazis murder Jews, if most of Nazi victims were Poles (Polish Jews)?
Nolan Cruz
I wrote "wrong" because of your emphasis on "RECOGNIZING" privilege. I don't want to spend my time double-checking with my brain if what I'm doing is actively helping out the less fortunate enough. It's tiresome having roadblocks in my head. >(as perceived by others) It's not my job to manage the perception of others. What I was asking you in the end was to give me an example of when someone has "checked their privilege" in order to help you.
Robert Price
>thus evening the field.
Why would any sane person want this? Life is not want for all of us to be equal.
Jose Turner
Isn't the solution to get rid of minorities and have a well functioning homogenous society without these problems.
We are told "diversity is our strength" yet there is not a single benefit to diversity. Not fucking one. There are only disadvantages to all involved in such a society.
Leo Richardson
>Be me >Born into very wealthy Canadian family >Me and three siblings all went to top private schools in the country >Parents paid for our colleges, had no expenses >After graduationg siblings and I get new cars and 250k each to go towards a down payment for a house/condo >Mom is Dutch, Dad is German >6'1, blonde hair blue eyes white as fuck >Retards think that i'm "privileged" MFW
Oliver Foster
Polish user please not that the guy you are talking to is clearly brainwashed by this leftist nonsense. None of this hatred to you because you are white, and ironically none of the bad feelings minorities would have in our countries, would be present if we stayed homogenous, like we are fucking supposed to. Nature literally divides groups, and these marxists are fighting nature for no benefit to regular people. The entire benefit of this agenda is in the hands of tyrannical government and out groups without homes (like jews pre 40s)
Easton Fisher
what's the point of this post, leaf?
Aaron Jones
Most American whites don't even know their lineage or ethnicity so all whites are the same
Lincoln Cruz
Imagine that story is true. You are privileged but nobody should care (aka be jealous of you). Of course some retards (shitskins or losers) might be but fuck them because they are idiots anyway.
Cameron Evans
To piss off the leftist shills in here It's actually true
Oliver Ramirez
>It's actually true breddy gud leaf are you doing your part to make canada great again?
Luis King
>asking to explain leftist logic It'd be easier to give an explanation for Fermi's paradox, no joke.
Levi Cooper
>I am from Poland, a country that never oppressed or colonized anyone WRONG you ethnically cleansed and killed MILLIONS of Germans.
James Ramirez
ID Canada - Toronto and hoping to have at least 4 babies. That's pretty much it though. Could into politics when I'm older if this country is still able to be saved.