[ SECRET POST #3003 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3003 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[caerbannog]

No.


Scholarships and support are to help even out an unlevel playing field and are not a privilege. If you think they are, you're a giant idiot.

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[(Anonymous)]

privilege
ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ':

noun

1. a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
"education is a right, not a privilege"

synonyms: advantage, right, benefit, prerogative, entitlement, birthright, due; More

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[(Anonymous)]

Education is increasingly becoming a plutocracy, meaning that it is becoming more of a privilege than a "right".
Just had to point out the irony of your example definition

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[(Anonymous)]

Your dictionary definition does not encompass the full scope of what we're talking about when we talk about "privilege," though. It's a really limited definition that constitutes what the word means when we use it in a general sense, but it doesn't consider the context any more than looking up any other word in the dictionary. In these discussions, the context is the systemic privilege conferred by birth or circumstance into a specific culture that values certain traits over others; attempts to correct this by allotting certain advantages to groups marginalized by this system (such as diversity scholarships) is not magically transferring that privilege to them, because the overall structure remains.

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[(Anonymous)]

Most help is focused on certain groups while excluding other groups that also need that help, tho.
So even if it "evens out" the playing field for some people, many are still excluded.

(I'm saying this as someone who had to give up on studying because I couldn't afford it and didn't "qualify" for any kind of scholarship/support. Now I have to deal with bad paid jobs just to survive [while knowing things can get worse and then I'll have nothing *and* I still can't except any help if it gets to that] and I'll never be able to do anything with my life. But hey, I'm not the right kind of poor so I don't deserve even the privilege of a chance to get a scholarship or anything else)

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[(Anonymous)]

It helps even out the playing field for some in a group, but hardly everyone in that group. The reason why those kind of scholarships exist in the first place is because those groups were excluded originally to some level and commonly have detrimental situations that act as a barrier.
Nothing is perfect.

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[caerbannog]

Thanks anon - don't have the time to think out a properly reply to AYRT but basically this!

Re: Is there such a thing as Black Privilege?

[(Anonymous)]

No prob.