What would you even call this, privilege privilege?

[gryphonsegg]

Those of you who know me already know of my long frustration with the woobification of rich boys who treat everyone around them like dirt. It's bad enough when the excuse is "His daddy didn't love him, so that justifies every bad thing he's ever done in the name of either pleasing his father or taking his understandable resentment of his father and/or more favored sibling(s) out on people who have nothing to do with his family issues." Now I've seen fandom's rich-douchebag-defenders reach a new low-- arguing that we should cut slack to silver-spooned racists, imperialist oppressors, and domestic abusers when they abuse the people they presume their inferiors because the poor dears were raised to believe in their own natural right to control and abuse others. So the dude has an overwhelming entitlement complex, but that's okay because he was raised to have an overwhelming entitlement complex.

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