What Different Kinds of Privilege?

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Health Privilege. Someone with a clean bill of health is certainly more privileged than someone who struggles with health issues.

Privilege Privilege. Someone with a high amount of these privileges is privileged over someone with a low amount

I assume we don't know but they do. They wouldn't frame it in that way but they'd know who was the occupier, who was the occupied, who was the majority, who was the minority etc. The ins and outs of it.

In Iraq, it's the non-Kurds who have what would be akin to white privilege.

The Tutsi felt entitled to be privileged, based merely on the fact that they were Tutsi.

[quote="KT67"] I assume we don't know but they do. They wouldn't frame it in that way but they'd know who was the occupier, who was the occupied, who was the majority, who was the minority etc. The ins and outs of it.
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Well then it doesn't make sense to insist that it's "White", now does it?

And also, the grudge between the Rwandan ethnic groups is very old, and there have been genocides coming from both sides aimed at the other.

That’s true.

But the Tutsi were always the “privileged” group.

The 1994 Genocide was unprecedented.

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Updated List:

• Ableness Privilege
• Age Privilege
• Athletic Privilege
• Beauty Privilege
• Celebrity Privilege
• Citizenship Privilege
• Cognitive Privilege
• Economic Privilege
• Educational Privilege
• Employment Privilege
• Filial Privilege
• Heterosexual Privilege
• Female Privilege
• Leadership Privilege
• LGBTQ Privilege
• Male Privilege
• Marital Privilege
• Political Privilege
• Racial Privilege
• Religious Privilege
• Singlehood Privilege
• Widowhood-Survivor Privilege

1972 in Burundi (borders Rwanda to the south). Different nation, but the same ethnic groups. Except this time it was the mostly-Tutsi army mass-killing Hutus. In 1993, also in Burundi, in the wake of a presidential assassination and the civil unrest that followed, Hutus and sympathetic parts of the military started a targeted campaign of mass-killings against the Tutsi population. This just one year before the same happened in Rwanda. So I think calling it "unprecedented" is somewhat stretching the definition of that word.

The term privilege is being thrown around way too much. I hate buzzwords

The Genocide between Tutsis and Hutus in the Rwanda/Burundi region from 1993-1994 was unprecedented----let me put it that way.

Under colonial administration (mostly the Germans), in fact, Rwanda and Burundi were combined for a while in an entity known as Ruanda/Urundi.

Same here. It seems to me that many of the people accusing others of 'Privilege' are blind to their own privileges. That's what started me on this thread.

Again, how was it unprecedented when the first targeted mass-killing between these two groups was in 1972?

Privilege is 2019 is largely a weaponized term used to guilt trip people and delegitimize opinion by delegitimizing the person expressing the opinion ie “you have ——— privilege, you can never understand”.

Please stop politicizing my threads. Take your petty argument to a thread of your own, instead.

I agree.

I think so much emphasis is put on white privilege because the notion of privilege was originally an American one.

There were too many murders in 1972 in the Rwanda/Burundi region----but they were about 1/10 of the quantity of murders which took place in 1993-1994.

Your thread was already political... The debate about if privilege is a thing or not and what it means is political.

I agree though, people are going off topic into a specific area.