#Privilege

There is an interesting difference between being a visible minority and being of a marginalized identity but appearing white.Before I adopted hijab, I was treated by society as any other
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The most dystopian thing about this entire pandemic is the congratulations one gets after getting a vaccine. It's not an achievement! A degree? A house? Sure! But a vaccine?! No!It
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A black person scores a very high 1400 SAT score. I'm brown and Latino. I score an impressive 1450 SAT score. A very "privileged" white kid studies relentlessly and scores
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The state of Dominic Cummings. I’m all for individuality but if he turned up to work for me looking like this I’d send him home. Show some respect for your
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On inequality/privilege: the recent discussion resonates strongly with this book I've read: Michael Sandel's Tyranny of Merit. I'll highlight the key ideas here. TLDR: meritocracy & glorifying top educational institutions
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I got my Pap smear this morning, two full years behind schedule. I say this because I’m a white woman with a great deal of privilege and *all* the education
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there is something SO noxious about tech & vc folks who brag about how much money they’ve made while actually contributing very little to society. a little hard work but
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I dont get the tears. Bare Black women tried to tell her and she wasnt havibg any of it, even the very succint and eloquently written one, she wasnt having
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potential senior quotes i might use [ a thread ] “kidney function is not a right, is a privilege” -
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Brands"Defense against fragility" is the learnable skill to be able to take feedback from legitimately frustrated marginalized groups.It's an essential skill for us all to learn. With privilege, we have
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What white privilege and being married to an heir can keep under wraps. Since Cambridge fans are puffing their chest, I’ll remind them. A thread: So since the press love
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Just a short thread on students following Rhodes statue's fall and grim harassment of Hitchens: don't blame student activists; they are kicking an open door. It's acquiescence of university authorities
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Halifax: Quinpool was closed from Connaught to the rotary for the betterment of auto traffic for 6 months and life went onClose it again now for the wellbeing and mental
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If we cannot respect & uphold every individual's full autonomy even when we don't understand or agree with their means or reasoning, we have a lot more work to do
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You realize that internships are literally 3-6 months maximum and in an economy with massive unemployment people will hire experienced folks over interns anyways right? Like it isn’t the magical
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I work 16 hour days, taxed to death, 0 children, 0 burden on the state - while government has laws in place to discriminate against me in terms of employment,
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