I guarantee you won’t read this or respond if you are privileged

Mostly because you think the word privilege is somehow partisan and you’ve already written me off.

Which is fine with me. Because this post isn’t about you anyway.

Privilege is the situation in which you don’t have to deal with something that other people do as a normal part of their life. Privilege is not the situation where you have something extra. If you are privileged, you might still have a hard life, but just not as hard as someone else who has additional stuff to deal with that you don’t because of your privilege.

Privilege is the belief that you don’t have to deal with something because someone else will deal with it for you, as you think they should. Privilege is the belief that certain things don’t affect you either. If you think racism doesn’t exist because you don’t experience it, you’re privileged. If you think sexism doesn’t exist because you don’t experience it firsthand, you are privileged. If you think all sorts of things don’t actually happen because you don’t experience them, then you are privileged.

Being privileged means you are above things and people. It is the belief that your way of seeing the world is just so very right that it is beyond critique and that any criticism immediately starts off wrong because how could anyone see things differently from you since you see them the correct way.

Privilege believes that it is the norm by which everything should be measured and that…