Owning it (meme from two different friends in different circles)

[greensinger]

First and foremost: There's a plan on the table right now to open up 2.5 million acres of preserved forest in western Oregon to logging, including some of the largest tracts of old growth left in the country. The public comment period for this Western Oregon Plan Revision (WOPR, or as we're calling it, whopper) is the 11th. Read more and COMMENT!

Comments

[tubaboy81]

Had I not been raised a religious Jew, I might not know what it's like to be "different" (okay, maybe I was doomed to that one from the start).

Thank you for adding that last part so I didn't have to.

More seriously:

I would have to bold at least eighteen of these, possibly twenty-one, and several I never even thought of as privileges (for that matter, some of the others I wouldn't have wanted, then or now). A few others I would add, now that I'm thinking about it and comparing it to some of my students:

Grew up with two parents
Parents were/are still together and not fighting
Parents encouraged education
Parents supported my extra-curricular activities
(more subjectively): Parents set a good example

Or, more subjectively yet but more succinct: My parents are wonderful. Sometimes I take that far too much for granted.

[kira_dancing]

This is a fun one for me (you know, in a sick kind of way) because my social class changed abruptly (downward) when I was nine or ten. However, the privilege I had early on had a HUGE impact on what was possible for me later. I didn't have college paid for, or SAT prep courses, or clothes that didn't come from the Salvation Army, but I did have educated parents who read to me and taught me and valued books. And from that base, I was able to do well enough academically to get a scholarship to a private high school, which gave me the opportunity to get scholarships to a private (prIVYate) university. So, the basic privilege I had in the beginning of my childhood (plus, being white forever) was enough to give me a ticket into the middle class

[thefieldsbeyond]

Hello, you! This is someone you know but haven't seen in a while; I found you through Kira. How're you doing? Mind if I friend you?

[anonymous]

Number 5 is true - Cousin lori is an attorney of some sort

[greensinger]

Thanks, Julia, and corrected.

This has been a fun exercise, especially seeing how many of my friends are not from upper-middle class backgrounds.