Irish White Privilege......Yeah

I'm beginning to think simply existing is a privilege. Being normal is a privilege. In many situations these days being Irish and white is a disadvantage. Male especially so.

That's not to diminish people with more urgent needs and disadvantages.

That's the thread title.

The first post however is about the NCCA draft for the secondary SPHE curriculum. It's hard to evaluate that because it's written in SPHE language that is open to interpretation and is difficult to understand. It's hard to accept it at face value considering they can't teach things like Irish or maths consistently.

You are seeking to undermine an individuals experience due to systemic issues that they have no control over while simultaneously enhancing other individuals experience due to systemic issues they have no control over. That is rank hypocrisy that goes some way to explain some of the misdirected anger in evidence here.

The modern Left aren't too worried about privilege, it's just a vehicle for them to point out the inherent badness in others. They naturally being the virtuous ones.

The modern Left have never forgiven the working class for not falling in behind the revolution and dropping "wrong think".

Remember seeing a YouTube clip about 15 ago, Harvard students screaming at unemployed construction labourers about privilege . It just summed up what I was increasingly seeing at the time in SF, a movement that was becoming dominated by arrogant middle class ideologues, who were always talking about the working class but were aloof snobs.

The left today are like the priests of old, screaming from the pulpit about sin, all are sinners, anyone who doesn't go along with their heavenly vision is evil and they are nearly always now from the top third of society.

The modern Left have moved on from class.

It's an uncomfortable topic for them and one that will lead to a dead end of people pointing out that the left across the world today are dominated by the very well to do.

What's the point of narcissists adopting a position where they cannot condemn others?

This is not the 80s or 90s

To the privileged, equality is a massive loss in status.

People are terrified of immigration because it's extra competition for resources, meanwhile we set up the global economy to funnel resources away from the 'developing countries'

Recognising privilege is not about blame or guilt. It's about not being an arrogant prick who thinks they deserve all of their wealth and success by being a fundamentally better person, while simultaneously thinking of less successful people as 'scrotes' or 'scumbags'

There is offensive wealth out there in the upper middle classes that needs to be called out. Bringing race into it muddies the waters. It's about money and wealth

I want privilege though, why are we all of sudden expected to tacitly buy into this masochistic notion that we shouldn't have one up over other people. Is life not long series of attempts at accruing various forms of privilege through our deeds? Give me all the privilege I can get please.

Do you know what religion even is?

All I'm saying is 'Try not to be a massive dick'

Is that too much for you?

What I think is actually hilarious are all the virtuous people profiling other people by race, age and sex all the time (white, middle aged, males in the case of this thread).

Not being a dick is woke now? Well I never….