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#Humanity #Compassion #Caring #Concern #Priviledge #Society
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#Priviledge #Empathy

I was looking at #jobs earlier, and all I could see was one compromise after the other. Imagine! To be comfortable in this capitalist system, I have to spend my time - my life - furthering someone else's capitalist agenda, nationalistic ideals, or otherwise work to concentrate someone else's #power & resources. And the folks who say they do something different appear to all be lying - I suppose someone has to pay them too in the end, how else could they afford my cushy day #rate?

I suppose I could #volunteer, or pay for #learning opportunities and adopt someone else's way of viewing the world for a while. That'll make me feel better! Or I could start walking on someone's road to #spiritual enlightenment and tell myself that, if these people say it's OK, then it must be. Even self-employed as a most #progressive #consultant, #facilitator, #coach, #therapist or - fuck it - #white #shaman #entrepreneur, I help people reflect and #dream for just a moment so that they can get the fuck back to #work. How else could they afford my #competitive hourly rate?

And now I'm getting old! I wish I could say that I'm looking forward to what the next generation will come up with, but then the world is ending so... So perhaps things are just shot to shit, #ragnarok is coming and I'm getting #old

Well, at least I #served a #purpose throughout my life. I fed the leeches at the top by giving them my #time, paying my #taxes, tossing my #vote, and generally being #busy and #good in #fear of not ending up a #bum, in #prison, or worse! At least I wasn't (openly) #racist, I kept my #sexism to my personal relationships and only implicitly supported the #patriarchy by insisting it's not there at all. I'm definitely a #feminist though, I was always terrified of my #mom. And although it really made me feel better to #judge people who were fatter, poorer or weaker than me, I only occasionally shared my true feelings with them. Oh, and not to mention the folks with smaller #dicks - haha! - and #black folks, #women or #queer people, thank Thor and the Lord and the Lady that I'm dying before I can no longer feel #superior to them!

But I wasn't bad. I did enjoy cheering for #BLM, and #XR, go you! For a moment there, I felt like even I was doing something! (Although #UFC and the #worldcup were more fun.) But mostly, I suppose, I mastered the art of shutting the #fuck up, silently enjoying my #safety and my #priviledge, and - oh, this I did really well - quickly inventing new #excuses for my pale & hairy ass in the elevator up to my 28th floor #hotdesking space. Change? How? I mean, it was just never the right time... And hey, my therapist and men's group think I'm alright!

OK, well, it is the time for me to #die now. Fuck #Heaven, fuck #WhiteJesus, fuck #politicians, the #rich and their lackeys the #police & #military, fuck my #priest, and fuck all of my self-help and other educative #preachers and #gurus, and then fuck everyone else who I #blame for my dreadfully #unfulfilling, #unhelpful, #disempowered and #mediocre #white existence

If only I had cared a little less for my own #comfort and a little more for people around me, then maybe I would have become an #anarchist. Alas, it's too late now, my ergonomically certified office chair has ground my #balls into dust

Please send me straight to #Hell because, in all #honesty, it's what we all know I deserve

“Privilege is just really baked into the system in many ways,” said Julie Park, who studies college admissions and racial equity at the University of Maryland. “At the end of the day, there’s disproportionate representation of the 1% at any private college.”

The scheme itself was brazen, with rich parents paying to get their children accepted to selective universities as fake athletes.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/01/16/college-admissions-scandal-aftermath
#priviledge #collegeadmissions

@bluejeanbaby #Power #priviledge #Billionaires vs #Democracy = this story is a long way from ending anytime soon. Next week will bring additional #confluence - maybe some #transparency and #additional #knowledge

#Introduction

New to Mastodon, part of the Great Migration. Sometimes it takes a colossal failure of a person (Musk) to liberate us from the Tyranny of Big Tech.

#Agender, #Demisexual, recovering Catholic.

#Neurodivergent AF. #ADHD and #ActuallyAutistic with #LanguageProcessing issues.

Love #SciFi and #Fantasy.

Fan of #StarTrek, #StarWars, #Marvel but also #Farscape, #Stargate, #Babylon5, #Buffy, #LOTR.

#Queer, but is that really a surprise?

I lean left politically. How far left? 🤷

Big fan of #NKJemisin.

White, middle class, male-passing. Epitome of #Priviledge as I fight to #EndThePatriarchy and #TearDownCapitalism.

Consistent Troublemaker. Former #Flautist but I sold out to the #Pennywhistle.

My #Dad was fucking #murdered and I'll never know who did that because of so much #hateful shit going around.
Us who did NOT grow up in #priviledge suffer from #White #Anarchist games #online which trickles into our homes. Emboldening White Supremacy!
I can't speak for everyone but I grew up in South Central LA. I grew up in a Police State, I was raised in White Supremacy.
Many of you don't even see how much this kills us #Black and #Indigenous people. You are also #erasing us inherently by chasing Chuds into the #WhiteHouse.
Start organizing and planning or give your resource and platforms to Black and Indigenous people.
#Queers are being targeted, mass shootings on a daily and #COVID killing/trapping our #disabled family members, friends or comrades.
By definition its safe to call this a #CivilWar

"The thing that people with power don’t know is what it’s like to have little or no power. Minute by minute, you are reminded of your place in the world: how it’s difficult to get out of bed if you have mental health conditions, impossible to laugh or charm if you are worried about what you will eat, and how not being seen can grind away at your sense of self."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/24/powerful-people-neuroscience-authority-privilege

#Neuroscience #Priviledge

I remember a #paper abou how what we usually call #talent in academics is really #priviledge

can anyone point me to it ?