Line of Oppression

[juicyslurpee]

Oppression is a touchy subject. But it is also something that is unavoidable.

In class today, our professor had us do an outdoor exercise. We all lined up on the edge of the sidewalk that separates the grass from the bushes, with the grass ahead of us and the bushes a few steps behind us. She had us hold hands and respond to her comments.
"If your

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[lllllllllllllli]

Saying I am privileged because of X and Y to me feels... a little redundant. It feels more like finding an excuse to be happy.

Should I feel privileged for being able to talk? walk? think? read? eat? sleep? write? where does the list end?

There are so many things we can feel privileged about asides from hearing, so many things that can give us a reason to be "happy" and feel "fortunate", so many that it almost makes each individual reason somewhat worthless. Where we only seldom think about them when exposed to others who are less privileged, and then are so quick to forget.

This leads me to conclude that we can't base privilege off what someone has and another doesn't. There are plenty of people who are given everything and are always miserable. The only privileged people in this world are those who are just happy to be themselves.

[juicyslurpee]

That's idealistic, don't you think? I mean, yeah, those who are happy being themselves are at a figurative privilege, but at a literal privilege? Not necessarily. The point of a privilege is that it is based on what someone has that another person doesn't

[lllllllllllllli]

I don't think being happy with yourself is necessarily a figurative privilege, it feels very literal to me

[juicyslurpee]

Hah well I don't know, sometimes in life or death situations people do the "every man for himself" thing