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Social Justice White/Straight/Cis/Male Privilege

JessFR said:
I assume this random spot geographically is somewhere with other people?

The earth is mostly water after all and I don't like those odds. ;)
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My point exactly in my above post i.e. @mal3volent would like to see nothing more than me swimming with the fishes! :ROFLMAO:
 
Lol. I don't think mal3volents trying to drown you.

I do think it's an interesting question provided we assume "random spot geographically" means a random human society.

Frankly while I do think your best odds are going straight white male, being realistic I think there's a really high risk you'll be screwed regardless.

I mean I assume you're not getting to grow up in this new society yea? Cause if you did, you wouldn't be "you" anymore. We are as much our experiences as anything else. Change those and we aren't us anymore.

But if you don't, you're not gonna function in that new society easily no matter what, even if it's relatively closely related to your original one.

But I'm going into complicated philosophical tangents now. Short answer is I think straight while male is your best odds, but they're still sucky odds. And that's making some assumptions about racial makeup over these time frames. Assumptions that may be wrong.

Id also want a closer look at the racial makeup of those time frames.

I don't think being white landing in a society of black people is gonna end well either.
 
mal3volent said:
If you had to choose your race, gender, and sexual orientation... and then be placed in a random spot geographically, in a random year throughout the past thousand years, which would you choose?
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Past 1000 years?

Jeez, I dunno.. not sure about the last 1000 years as its all pretty rubbish. Im going to have to think about that.

I would have picked 100 000 years ago and Neanderthal man would have been a lot more simple with survival being priority rather than being overpopulated and running out of room.

Fact is, humans only have humans to control their population and being naturally territorial, humans will always have conflict designed to take each other out.
 
Personally I feel suuuuuper fortunate to be born where and when I was born. Which is to say in the past 50 years and in a western country.

There is no other time or place I'd rather have been born in. Either as a woman or a man but particularly not as a woman. And particularly particularly not as a woman who's also a racial minority in their land.

EDIT: Ehh, actually if I had a choice I can see wishing I'd been born maybe 10 years earlier so I'd coulda experienced the 90s in my late teens early 20s. Cause the 90s were awesome. But that's a really minor quibble.
 
JessFR said:
Personally I feel suuuuuper fortunate to be born where and when I was born. Which is to say in the past 50 years and in a western country.

There is no other time or place I'd rather have been born in. Either as a woman or a man but particularly not as a woman. And particularly particularly not as a woman who's also a racial minority in their land.

EDIT: Ehh, actually if I had a choice I can see wishing I'd been born maybe 10 years earlier so I'd coulda experienced the 90s in my late teens early 20s. Cause the 90s were awesome. But that's a really minor quibble.
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I agree. We definitely live in the best of times. Certainly we could improve a whole lot but we live in not only the most prosperous context but also one that has continual and generally peaceful improvement and adjustment baked into it.
 
JessFR said:
There is no other time or place I'd rather have been born in.
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Nah. I cannot say the same (and here I'm not even talking about going back to the '80's either). There's at least two times in history that I can think of that I know I'd have flourished.

But that's not a part of the question though and the choice of time and place are not optional according to the original question.
 
Fuck the 80s. Crime ridden fashion victim of a decade.

Now the 90s...post cold War... Dawn of the internet, era of grunge. Now that's a decade!

I'm obviously talking from an American centric perspective btw since as well all know nowhere else matters. :D
 
I’d probably go for a pan-sexual Victorian era gentleman working for the East India Company somewhere in the Far East doing something with the opium trade. Although my actual values are probably diametrically opposed to just about everything in that scenario. But if you had the choice why wouldn’t you go for something fantastical?
 
Born here (no, not this exact spot):

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You guys and your first world problems :p
 
mal3volent said:
Did you guys pick up on the point behind my question?

If you answer honestly, you're going to pick straight white male.

That is privilege. ☺️
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Straight white male with minimum top 25th percentile income. Sucks to be poor. Double sucks if you’re white and deep down believe you are entitled to not be poor.
 
mal3volent said:
Did you guys pick up on the point behind my question?

If you answer honestly, you're going to pick straight white male.

That is privilege. 🙂
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Yes, the millions of white people who died in the past century for the protection of an egalitarian society in which white people are routinely denigrated sure were privileged.
 
mal3volent said:
Did you guys pick up on the point behind my question?

If you answer honestly, you're going to pick straight white male.

That is privilege. 🙂
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Sneaky. Thought it’d lead to something far more interesting and entertaining. But sneaky and clever too. Well done to you.

Facts are facts are facts. It is what it is. Still will not agree with the privilege part though. Sorry. If anything I would have to say that, in my case, as things stand now, and where I live, I would have to create my own privilege.

Clever thought process you have though in order to try drive home a point.
 
thujone said:
Yes, the millions of white people who died in the past century for the protection of an egalitarian society in which white people are routinely denigrated sure were privileged.
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You aren't even trying to comprehend what the term actually means. No one's trying to take away individual suffering.
 
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