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Interesting read, the turn this thread taken for Padawan learners has. 
It has become obvious victimology is thriving, alive and well worldwide. The concept and narrative getting really old too. Question for all those so afflicted, especially those non-Americans who have been brainwashed into that mindset. Historically, exactly how does the “privileged class” card play out considering the currently prosperous segments of that class and demographic who were financially 100% wiped out during the Great Depression? Likewise, how did the poor demographic population even survive the Great Depression much less prosper after the Depression? Please explain!
This mindset of a permanently “oppressed class” doesn’t square with reality. My family’s personal experience, past and present, differs 180 degrees from this “privileged class” narrative. A narrative that never seems to evolve nor go away. Such thoughts always remind me of the great quote in the movie Contact when Ellie Arroway says, “Funny, I’ve always believed that the world is what we make of it”.
My daughter is best example I know. She comes from poorest of poor background, a rural mountain village in Mindanao Philippines. She was malnourished when young and is a survivor of a congenital heart defect. I will forever be in debt to and thankful for the Dole corporation for providing her corrective surgery and medical care when she was less than a year old. At age 12 she survived a ruptured appendix, spending nearly a month in a hospital in Gensan Philippines. She is currently a junior in college here in the US pursuing a BSN degree. We have had no advantage based on privilege- zero. Matter of fact just the opposite in contrast with various students “of color” or of politically select “ethnicity” or “racial claim” who have been provided opportunity and financial privilege. The reality is and has been “Whites and Asians” need not apply. Do not lecture me about privilege! We receive no assistance, much less “full ride” yada yada yada. The middle class doesn’t qualify. To save money she has no car and does not drive. She is not scholastically gifted and has to work very hard for good grades, studying an average of 5-7 hours a day, every day. That hard work does pay off though as she has maintained a 3.8 GPA overall with a 4.0 this semester. She is of very small stature and quiet and shy as a church mouse. She speaks 6 languages but English is not her first language. She is knockout pretty- no make up required. She’s 21 years old but looks 12. She avoids any spotlight and wants a future based only on earned merit. If I were a boss, looking for a bright, honest, reliable, hardworking, loyal, employee- I’d look no further. Success by privilege my ass!
It has become obvious victimology is thriving, alive and well worldwide. The concept and narrative getting really old too. Question for all those so afflicted, especially those non-Americans who have been brainwashed into that mindset. Historically, exactly how does the “privileged class” card play out considering the currently prosperous segments of that class and demographic who were financially 100% wiped out during the Great Depression? Likewise, how did the poor demographic population even survive the Great Depression much less prosper after the Depression? Please explain!
This mindset of a permanently “oppressed class” doesn’t square with reality. My family’s personal experience, past and present, differs 180 degrees from this “privileged class” narrative. A narrative that never seems to evolve nor go away. Such thoughts always remind me of the great quote in the movie Contact when Ellie Arroway says, “Funny, I’ve always believed that the world is what we make of it”.
My daughter is best example I know. She comes from poorest of poor background, a rural mountain village in Mindanao Philippines. She was malnourished when young and is a survivor of a congenital heart defect. I will forever be in debt to and thankful for the Dole corporation for providing her corrective surgery and medical care when she was less than a year old. At age 12 she survived a ruptured appendix, spending nearly a month in a hospital in Gensan Philippines. She is currently a junior in college here in the US pursuing a BSN degree. We have had no advantage based on privilege- zero. Matter of fact just the opposite in contrast with various students “of color” or of politically select “ethnicity” or “racial claim” who have been provided opportunity and financial privilege. The reality is and has been “Whites and Asians” need not apply. Do not lecture me about privilege! We receive no assistance, much less “full ride” yada yada yada. The middle class doesn’t qualify. To save money she has no car and does not drive. She is not scholastically gifted and has to work very hard for good grades, studying an average of 5-7 hours a day, every day. That hard work does pay off though as she has maintained a 3.8 GPA overall with a 4.0 this semester. She is of very small stature and quiet and shy as a church mouse. She speaks 6 languages but English is not her first language. She is knockout pretty- no make up required. She’s 21 years old but looks 12. She avoids any spotlight and wants a future based only on earned merit. If I were a boss, looking for a bright, honest, reliable, hardworking, loyal, employee- I’d look no further. Success by privilege my ass!
