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re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:32 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:32 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Mexican. (Though I grew up rich so we told people we were Spanish)
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Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:32 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I'm incredibly good looking and irresistible to women. I feel guilty about it but that's just how it is.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:34 pm to Machine
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because i'd be scared of what would happen to future generations of my family should they ever loosetheir wealth
Legit concern.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:36 pm to moneyg
quote:right right. i voted libertarian since 2008 but i'm a liberal
It's always the libs who are the racist ones.
This post was edited on 9/27/17 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:36 pm to Eli Goldfinger
White
2 parents household, mom a houseife, dad a business owner
First job , 12 years old working summer's at dad's auto repair shop. Six days a week all summer.
Joined the Army at 17 years old, went to Basic Training the summer before my senior in high school.
When I graduated High school my dad gave me $500 , said "you're a man now, you can always come home for a visit, but that's just what it is a visit" that's all the help I've gotten from my parents as an adult.
Graduated high school, went onto Advanced Trainijng, about a year and a half later, off to Iraq.
Basically ordered to attend Princeton University and made an officer due to my own hard work.
Got married, had kids, rose to the rank of Colonel and retired at age 42.
Trying to raise my kids in the same way I was raised.
2 parents household, mom a houseife, dad a business owner
First job , 12 years old working summer's at dad's auto repair shop. Six days a week all summer.
Joined the Army at 17 years old, went to Basic Training the summer before my senior in high school.
When I graduated High school my dad gave me $500 , said "you're a man now, you can always come home for a visit, but that's just what it is a visit" that's all the help I've gotten from my parents as an adult.
Graduated high school, went onto Advanced Trainijng, about a year and a half later, off to Iraq.
Basically ordered to attend Princeton University and made an officer due to my own hard work.
Got married, had kids, rose to the rank of Colonel and retired at age 42.
Trying to raise my kids in the same way I was raised.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:37 pm to Eli Goldfinger
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I was born into a 2-parent household.
This is the only privilege that can be substantiated with data. Kids who grow up in 2 parent homes are markedly more prosperous than kids from single family homes.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:37 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I'm a white man in America. 
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:43 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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I'm a white, educated veteran. Privileged AF.
Ya, but you were a jarhead. -20 privilege points.
See now if you were a zoomie, that's easily +50 privilege points.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:44 pm to Rex Feral
47 white male born in a 2 parent home (they still married). Upper middle class, private school and college educated. Started working at 16. Married with 2 kids. Blessed to grow up the way I did.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:49 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Growing up my family was poor. In my late elementary and Jr. High years, my dad was going to college and my mom worked at Walmart. We lived in a mobile home with holes in the floor. My dad graduated college, became a teacher, and built us a house.
I finished 75th out of nearly 300 graduating students with a 3.5 GPA.
Throughout high school and college I worked at a welding shop so that I could afford a car and car insurance. I worked my way from the very bottom (a helper) to the front office programming our CNC machines.
I graduated college and am now a teacher. I am married to a teacher and we just started fostering to adopt two beautiful children.
I guess it is because of my white privilege and not my hard work and parents who gave a damn, that I am successful.
My best friend from college had a near similar story and he is black. He made it out of the "hood" because he had a mother, much like my parents, who worked hard and gave a shite.
The so called "white privilege" is bull shite! It is about how you are raised. We both had good parents and we turned out to be successful.
As a teacher, I see the good and bad everyday. I have white students who give me hell because they have crappy parents. I have black students who are among my brightest students, and they have great parents.
I finished 75th out of nearly 300 graduating students with a 3.5 GPA.
Throughout high school and college I worked at a welding shop so that I could afford a car and car insurance. I worked my way from the very bottom (a helper) to the front office programming our CNC machines.
I graduated college and am now a teacher. I am married to a teacher and we just started fostering to adopt two beautiful children.
I guess it is because of my white privilege and not my hard work and parents who gave a damn, that I am successful.
My best friend from college had a near similar story and he is black. He made it out of the "hood" because he had a mother, much like my parents, who worked hard and gave a shite.
The so called "white privilege" is bull shite! It is about how you are raised. We both had good parents and we turned out to be successful.
As a teacher, I see the good and bad everyday. I have white students who give me hell because they have crappy parents. I have black students who are among my brightest students, and they have great parents.
This post was edited on 9/27/17 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:50 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Born into a 2-parent household. Parents divorced when I was 2.
Didn't see my dad much, mom was forced to work so we had a place to live and food to eat. Christmas was rarely a happy time to say the least.
Was told at age 15 if I wanted any more clothes and such to get a job. Got a job.
Was told at 16 if I wanted to go to college, I had to find a way to pay for it. Started saving.
Worked full time through most of my undergraduate degree at a state school. Had to take a few semesters off here and there to save money to pay tuition.
Through hard work was accepted to the Master's program. Graduated first in my class.
Applied for Army OCS. Was accepted. Went to basic, went to OCS, Commissioned, went to all the other fun Army schools. Eventually reached my initial goal of commanding a company. Top-blocked bitches.
Sprinkle in various deployments.
Left active duty, joined the Guard, started doing cybersecurity full time and here I am.
Bow before my privilege.
Didn't see my dad much, mom was forced to work so we had a place to live and food to eat. Christmas was rarely a happy time to say the least.
Was told at age 15 if I wanted any more clothes and such to get a job. Got a job.
Was told at 16 if I wanted to go to college, I had to find a way to pay for it. Started saving.
Worked full time through most of my undergraduate degree at a state school. Had to take a few semesters off here and there to save money to pay tuition.
Through hard work was accepted to the Master's program. Graduated first in my class.
Applied for Army OCS. Was accepted. Went to basic, went to OCS, Commissioned, went to all the other fun Army schools. Eventually reached my initial goal of commanding a company. Top-blocked bitches.
Sprinkle in various deployments. Left active duty, joined the Guard, started doing cybersecurity full time and here I am.
Bow before my privilege.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:53 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Excellent post. I'll respond in italics.
I was born into a 2-parent household. Both of my parents worked to provide.
I was born into a very poor 2-parent household but my mom didn't work because daycare would have made it pointless.
I was taught morally wrong from right. From an early age.
I was taught by the Catholic Church that if I considered anything naughty I'd burn in hell forever.
When 15, my first taste of work privilege was landing a job sweeping a local grocer's parking lot by hand.
When 16, I landed a job as a DJ in a middle market AM station (top 40 format). I worked 5pm - 11 pm on school nights and longer on weekends so I could buy a car.
I graduated in the middle of my class from a public school. I went to college (state college - half of it on scholarship).
I graduated 10th in a class of over 500 from a public school. But since I was GT and a national merit scholar I was offered 75 full tuition scholarships from around the US. I should have taken the full ride to Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio. They had 20 girls per each boy.
My family is comfortable.
So is mine. Even though Coach Popavich says they shouldn't be.
I was born into a 2-parent household. Both of my parents worked to provide.
I was born into a very poor 2-parent household but my mom didn't work because daycare would have made it pointless.
I was taught morally wrong from right. From an early age.
I was taught by the Catholic Church that if I considered anything naughty I'd burn in hell forever.
When 15, my first taste of work privilege was landing a job sweeping a local grocer's parking lot by hand.
When 16, I landed a job as a DJ in a middle market AM station (top 40 format). I worked 5pm - 11 pm on school nights and longer on weekends so I could buy a car.
I graduated in the middle of my class from a public school. I went to college (state college - half of it on scholarship).
I graduated 10th in a class of over 500 from a public school. But since I was GT and a national merit scholar I was offered 75 full tuition scholarships from around the US. I should have taken the full ride to Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio. They had 20 girls per each boy.
My family is comfortable.
So is mine. Even though Coach Popavich says they shouldn't be.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:54 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Generational responsibility.
Also amazingly good looks.
Also amazingly good looks.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:54 pm to BlackAdam
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This is the only privilege that can be substantiated with data. Kids who grow up in 2 parent homes are markedly more prosperous than kids from single family homes.
And that stat cuts across races, does it not?
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:55 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I remember getting extra fried okra once at Piccadilly when I was in high school.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:56 pm to BBONDS25
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Mexican. (Though I grew up rich so we told people we wer
I grew up poor, but I see it as a benefit. Learned what I can live without and can live in either realm.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:57 pm to Machine
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i'm a liberal
We know
Posted on 9/27/17 at 1:59 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I grew up poor, but I see it as a benefit. Learned what I can live without and can live in eit
I can respect that. The last cent I saw from pops was the day i graduated undergrad. I was Mexican again for quite a long time. I'd say now I'm Spanican.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 2:01 pm to Machine
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right right. i voted libertarian since 2008 but i'm a liberal
A liberal pretending to be a libertarian on a message board? Yeah, I haven't seen that before.
Posted on 9/27/17 at 2:01 pm to BlackAdam
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This is the only privilege that can be substantiated with data. Kids who grow up in 2 parent homes are markedly more prosperous than kids from single family homes.
I'm proud to be one of the ones fricking up those stats.
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