Why do people take offense at being labeled privileged? The term itself does not convey a positive or negative. Rather, it just conveys when someone might have an inherent advantage due to the system. And ideally it means that the privileged person might try to help those that are not so fortunate.
Take speaking English, for example. Are English speakers privileged in the US? Yep, they (we) absolutely are. EVERYTHING is in English, from our road signs to our tax forms to the labels in the grocery store. You'd have to be stupid to think that doesn't convey some sort of advantage to someone in the US.
So what does that mean - should I feel guilty or ashamed of speaking English? Absolutely not. However, I should recognize that it's given me an inherent advantage over non-English speakers and maybe... just maybe... try to help level the playing field for those that don't speak English. Maybe it's OK to let those IRS forms be printed in Spanish or to not get annoyed when I hear "for Spanish press 2 and for Mandarin press 3" when I'm on the phone.
This works for any level of privilege - racial, cultural, linguistic, gender, class, etc. etc. etc. I don't understand why some folks get so butthurt about being labeled privileged; it's not a slight unless you choose to let it be one.
#4 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-02-05 10:44 AM | REPLY | FLAG:
#34 | POSTED BY MSGT AT 2024-02-06 03:40 PM | FLAG:
What a couple of dummies.
In Biden v Nebraska, SCOTUS said the Biden Administration's usage of the HEROES Act was not justification to forgive student loan debt broadly and across the board . So the Biden Administration... STOPPED utilizing the HEROES Act and similar attempts to broadly forgive all student loans. Nowhere does the SC decision disallow the Biden Administration to forgive student loan debt through targeted programs, some that have been on the books for decades (but not enforced or made impossible to enforce), or through Programs that have been specifically passed into law by Congress.
So no, the Biden Administration did not "ignore" the SC by forgiving student loan debts using Programs that allow for such.
The amount of water y'all carry for these MAGA Morons is staggering.