Re:Class Bullshitters
by bjourne on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:10PM
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But the thing is, you could be a class bullshitter, just like the woman the article describes! There is no objective test to determine if you had to overcome "extreme adversity" or if you were "privileged" like most middle/upper-class people were.
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I understand what you’re saying but there’s nothing I can point to in my life that gave me privilege. Even being white and male have largely been detriments to my life as a lot of things designed to help low income people tended to have racial qualifiers.
Which incidentally made me a bit racist until I overcame that, because ultimately it’s nobodies fault.
I have no “absentee dad who helped out” and my family all died before I was 5 leaving behind a pitiful inherentence that barely covered their burials.
I get what you’re saying. But the reason it pisses me off is that while I have been extremely lucky, I sometimes wish to speak to my friends who were not so lucky and did not escape like I have. Having people discredit my lived experience or pretending as if it was the same for then us not helping them or me.