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Forums - General Discussion - How Privileged Are You? (online survey)

 

Result:

0-25 2 12.50%
 
26-50 6 37.50%
 
51-75 6 37.50%
 
76-100 2 12.50%
 
Total:16

Just a simple online survey. :)

So, how privileged are you?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you



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My result.

You live with 59 out of 100 points of privilege.

You’re quite privileged. You’ve had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don’t have them. Thank you for checking your privilege.



Stupid and shallow stuff. There seems to be no weighting. And some things don't apply at all to my person. Seems very US centric overall.

That said, I got a 71 but i think I'm quite a bit more privileged than that.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

You live with 43 out of 100 points of privilege.

You’re not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You’ve had your fair share of struggles, and you’ve worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.


I think the quiz is silly cultural marxism. Basically if you aren't homosexual, religious (or of a religion that isn't christianity), a women, or poor then you're automatically privileged. The only reason I got as low as I did was because I'm an atheist, bisexual, and grew up poor. I never felt unprivileged, though. In fact, growing up in a first-world country never hungry, only homeless once for 6 month - lived in a shelter that covered everything, having good people in my life, a decent means to an education, and many opportunities to success make up for factors like "having had somebody told you that they want to save you for your religious beliefs" or "being the only person of your race in the room" which are nowhere near big deals if you think of people as individuals and not competing groups.



There you have it folks:

If you've been beaten by a group of punks and thrown into a garbage can but they didn't do it because your skin colour you're privileged.

If you've never heard “You have been randomly selected for secondary passport control.” because you never could afford to travel outside of your country you're privileged.



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Depends, is nerd a race?

45/100. Sorry I feel very privileged. Ofcourse shit has happened some time during 40 years, especially growing up as an akward kid that didn't fit in socially or physically.



Some of the statements are stupid. So you have to be white, heterosexual, and a Christian to be privileged?



Couldn't finish it. Got bored.



i'm a straight white male so therefore i'm "the most privileged".

i think i'm going to have my mommy sue that site for me because i feel stereotyped.



The funny thing is I've had most of that stuff happen to me even though I'm a white dude. (See current avatar)

I want to say most people have.  Which is why survey's like this don't really help, as they don't make real distinctions.

 

Well passably white anyway. Technically would be screwed if the country was taken over by a bunch of super racist white supremacists.

 

Also funny is how they felt they had to quadruple + up on the gay questions just so they didn't end up with gay people being more priveledged for being gay.  They cleaerly made up privledged percentages first then made the survey questions later.  (Also likely done by a staight person since they couldn't actually come up with many good gay questions.)

 

My guess... a straight priveleged college student.  What with the Student Loan questions being stupid because plenty of people can't afford college... and the unpaid internship thing because there are a TON of college students who would KILL for an unpaid internship.

 

Edit:   I mean, I got this.   Which isn't true in the slighteset.  I'm very damn priveldged.  Espiecally in the sense they mean to measure.  I don't have an inetrsectional complicated identity in the slightest.   

 

You live with 38 out of 100 points of privilege.

 

  1. You’re not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You’ve had your fair share of struggles, and you’ve worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.