Daisy Ridley doesn't understand privilege

[qaladriel]

Daisy Ridley: ‘JJ Abrams warned me that Star Wars is a religion’ https://t.co/og9MN1oAeA
- The Guardian (@guardian) December 7, 2019

This is a great example of what challenging an interview subject instead of deferring to their press releases looks like pic.twitter.com/mv4dPyUpng
- A pair of Chloe shades and a diamond belly ring (@nthnashma)

Comments

[kashiyaek]

this is... so disappointing but i don't know why i expected otherwise

[kashiyaek]

i hope that her admitting she's never thought about it before means she'll start thinking about it NOW like get it together girl

[qaladriel]

it's absolutely bizarre to me that she can exist in such a scene and not put 2+2 together as to how she got there. it really shows how often these conversations are happening on social media and not 'real life' beyond journalism circles, which needs to change.

[arellaj]

It screams out-of-touch white woman.

[dnttllhrry]

The whites love to deny deny deny.
Anything to keep them from having to reconcile their institutional privilege, because that's ~hard and uncomfortable~

[accioanime]

Privilege is when you never have to think about any of that, Daisy.

[su_metal]

this and i think that's the issue with most privileged people, they can go to public schools, or to work with different people and still think they all are the same because that's what they see every day and not how that person or parents fought to get to the same level (in a job, for example) as them.

[su_metal]

I know what you mean, I live in Dom. Rep. and here private schools tend to have "affordable" prices and most middle/rich class people use them (some of them are really expensive and exclusive but the majority aren't) because they want to avoid sending their kids to public schools if they can. Some private schools are even willing to adjust their prices to poor families so they can send their kids too.
So I was referring more at any definition of public school that wasn't private with a monthly fee.

[aeromi]

yike..... there was another interview where she says she didnt grow up well off and that she lived in the smallest house in the street only for her to say she went to boarding school in the very next sentence, i was like.... ok then. I dont know much about John’s upbringing, but if he grew up in a wealthy nigerian household i can kinda see what she is trying to say, but shes forgetting the part where john is black and from an immigrant country. still love her though

[__onthebound]

his family is poor. he went to theatre school on a hardship scholarship

[qaladriel]

that argument is just so dumb bc 1) who doesn't think their parents work hard under most circumstances 2) 'hard' jobs do not by their nature = better pay. a job is harder if you're slaving away for fuck all

[xtinkerbellax]

Yea I hate when people talk about their parents working hard to get what they have or they themselves working hard because it always sounds like it implies that people who don't have money or are struggling aren't also working hard. Most people are, but hard work does not necessarily result in a monetary reward which is something people a lot of people really do not seem to grasp.

[starsandcrosses]

so well put, ia