Nobody said your individual experiences weren’t valid, or you never suffered, or you’ve had a perfect life. What other people are trying to say, and you aren’t really hearing properly, is that the way you have experienced the world has been shaped by a series of factors that you’ve probably never had to think about before. Not because you’re a bad person, or you’re s****d, or you’re mean, but probably because nobody ever sat you down and said, “Listen, your house is actually super nice, but that’s because your parents made a decent amount of money. Not everybody’s parents can make that much money, so you’re sort of blessed to be able to have this life”.
Privilege is about gaps in experience, on some basic level. It’s like, if nobody ever told you the world was supposed to not be blurry, you would never know you needed glasses. Sort of thing.
THIS. I see so many reblogs where people think “privilege” is an insult. It’s not. It’s an acknowledgement that your life circumstances are different than another person’s. Does anyone really disagree with that?
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(Source: athenasaurus)
