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In reply to the discussion: The Problem with Being Privileged [View all]Warpy
(111,257 posts)and were shocked by that test of overall privilege last week. I tried to point out to them that being able to walk down the street without being hooted at or targeted for one's gender was an enormous privilege, much greater than overall wealth, and people just didn't get it at all. They all wanted to whine about how low pay made them unprivileged and therefore the test was bogus.
The problem with privilege is that most privileged people don't see it, they feel they are entitled to their privilege and that every other person in the world shares it. That's so far from the truth as to be mind boggling to those of us who don't share it.
I'm old, white and financially solvent but other factors combined to make me extremely disprivileged according to that test, something I already knew from the way I have to live.
I'm glad somebody else got the point.