More thoughts on the privilege meme

[maevele]

I finally worked out my real problem with that meme. I grew up poor enough that I only scored a 4, and yeah, I wasn't living the middle class life compared to what I saw on TV, I was still privileged compared to many, many of the other poor people around me. We were poor, but not so fucking life draining, hungry, always worried about money poor, so i knew I was privileged. The list thing starting from a more middle class base caused some mental disconnects for me, because I feel like I've always been aware that if you're not starving, there is always someone in America who has it worse off, and that list was coming from a place without even that assumption.

OTOH, It's started a LOT of really solid conversations about class and privilege, and has people thinking, so hell yeah!