Discussion board 4
In my belief having privileges means that you possess an unearned advantage in society through some aspect of your identity, in comparison to people who lack that concept. These dynamics tend to reflect larger power differentials in society as people who are members of a dominant group possess privilege over those whose identity and overlook them by comparing. Oppression happens when a person exercises authority or power in a forcing or controlling way. I experience oppression by being in a non-dominant group at my workplace. Oppression in the form of disapproval. They may even suffer abuse from individuals. This video helped me define the concept of privilege because the people in the video understood that there are other people out there that suffer to get what we already have or can get easily. Privilege is not only about the things you have in life or the things you have at home. Privilege can also be about skin color, race, or/and gender. Some of us believe that men are more privileged than women or that women are privileged than men. Colored people believe that in this country we live in they will never make it to the front or as we say the top. Now a white person can say with confidence that they will make it to the top.
Hi Heylee!
You gave a perfect definition for privilege in my opinion! Privilege gives a person or a category of people an advantage over others. Like you mentioned, often times privilege is unearned. Based around things you have no control over like your race or gender. It is like a power structure built into society to set one group up to succeed and the other up to fail, no matter the effort put in. A perfect example, like you said, being that a white person is pretty much guaranteed success or you could at least say with certainty that they will have a better chance at success than a person of minority.
Hi Heylee – while you give good definitions, this post is much too short to meet the discussion post requirements. You also don’t respond to all of the points in the prompt. Please be sure you do this next time.
I agree on your definition/what you understand privilege to be. Privilege is all about the significant disparities (for example) white people vs poc/black people. For obvious reason white people have immense privilege from the day they are born while poc/black people are often discriminated against and oppressed. Another example would be men vs. women.