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Privilege Meme: One question
By now I'm sure most of the world has seen the meme that starts like this:
From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright. Bold the true statements.
I've been thinking about it a lot, getting vaguely annoyed, and wanting to respond but not knowing how. So I'm going to zero on one question:
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.
What ARE "people like me?"
The kids i went to high school with- mostly white residents of "a nice neighborhood?"
The kids I went to camp with-all with our various disabilities, some living in "special residences?"
The people I hang out with at cons-from every niche of life, united by an appreciation of words and wit?
My farmer relatives? My relatives who belong to a yacht Club?
My friends who are still living on SSI, as I once was?
The fellow college student that I wanted to sock for saying "Of course you'll get into grad school! You're female and handicapped!"
YES, I'm privileged, by golly. I'm privileged to have grown up in a loving family who kept me materially comfortable but didn't let me get away with being a snotty brat, and encouraged me to develop my mind. I'm privileged to know all sorts of people, and to have had it brought home to me that "like me" isn't the only "right" way to be-or a wrong way either. I'm privileged to have a husband who loves me for what's in my heart and head, not for the car in our driveway, the clothes in our closets, or whatever. And I'm grateful for all of it.
From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright. Bold the true statements.
I've been thinking about it a lot, getting vaguely annoyed, and wanting to respond but not knowing how. So I'm going to zero on one question:
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.
What ARE "people like me?"
The kids i went to high school with- mostly white residents of "a nice neighborhood?"
The kids I went to camp with-all with our various disabilities, some living in "special residences?"
The people I hang out with at cons-from every niche of life, united by an appreciation of words and wit?
My farmer relatives? My relatives who belong to a yacht Club?
My friends who are still living on SSI, as I once was?
The fellow college student that I wanted to sock for saying "Of course you'll get into grad school! You're female and handicapped!"
YES, I'm privileged, by golly. I'm privileged to have grown up in a loving family who kept me materially comfortable but didn't let me get away with being a snotty brat, and encouraged me to develop my mind. I'm privileged to know all sorts of people, and to have had it brought home to me that "like me" isn't the only "right" way to be-or a wrong way either. I'm privileged to have a husband who loves me for what's in my heart and head, not for the car in our driveway, the clothes in our closets, or whatever. And I'm grateful for all of it.
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As far as the instruments, I learned a lot about it when I did questions for the Texas 7th grade Achievement tests. (Which J must've taken, though not any I wrote.) I learned even more in grad school when I took a class in assessment and testing.