Originally Posted by
gimmick
What does the guilt do here? I'm a white North-European man. Fuck yeah i'm privileged and hella proud of it. Far as i'm concerned i hit 3/3 on that background roll. I'm proud of my heritage and nationality. That doesn't mean you can't be proud of yours.
In the North-European scale i'd likely be better off being Norwegian, Swede or Dane. In the white scale i'm pretty close to the top. European shades of white from top to bottom traditionally go North, Center, South/West, East, Gypsies. If you're not from the North there's slight possibility your scale is different. Oh and with man/female flip you're better off being a male since forever.
Through in wealth, physical/mental attributes, intelligence and you could be better off with wider options in any background. It's all just dice rolls that took place before you were born. You have no control to any of it, but that doesn't mean they don't matter. There's also no point in denying that.
ps. Is guilt a jew/catholic thing or do other religions/cultures feel a need to sprinkle it to everything?
Not sure what you're asking here.
I'm a Jew and I don't feel any guilt. I acknowledge that we aren't all born into equal circumstances, and in that manner, I got fairly lucky. I also acknowledge that being a white heterosexual male means that I don't have to worry about discrimination due to my race or sexual preference.
However, I don't feel guilty about it, just like people born into circumstances better than mine also shouldn't feel guilty.
The problem is that much of the SJW left in the US -- and increasingly the mainstream left to some degree -- feels that you have to apologize for your "privilege" in order to be seen as a decent human being. Oh, and you also have to lecture others about how you recognize your privilege, and they're selfish bigots for not recognizing theirs.
It's all so stupid.
How about just treating others with respect and fairness, and not feeling like you are a bad person for being born white and heterosexual?