Janszoon

My score was 44:

You’re not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You’ve had your fair share of struggles, and you’ve worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.

I guess all of this comes with the caveat of really being "not privileged as far as someone with electricity, access to the internet and the ability to read goes".

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53/100 apparently.

I thought it would be quite a bit lower actually, considering the kind of conditions I grew up with in a country steeped in communism. I guess that being a straight white male bumps the score up. I've had a couple of good opportunities handed to me. I think if the test was based on socioeconomic or political privilege, my score would have been much lower.

Engine

^true. big white men do better in capitalist societies, apparently.
Love how revealing this thread is.

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Sansa Stark

I don't need pity from a peasant like you, I'm still better than you

Wpnfire

I absolutely did not mean to pity you, I was just saying that you...


Oh, well okay then.

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how about you don't talk to me anymore? be a good boy now

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I won't make any promises.

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Scarlett O'Hara

I'm sure no one will be surprised about this:

54%

You’re quite privileged. You’ve had a few struggles, but overall your life has been far easier than most. This is not a bad thing, nor is it something to be ashamed of. But you should be aware of your advantages and work to help others who don’t have them. Thank you for checking your privilege.

Response: thank you Buzzfeed.

I may not have faced anything to do with sexuality, gender or race but there are many other things I've gone through that are not all covered by the quiz. I'm definitely aware of my privilege and consider myself very lucky. At the same time I'm not a rich girl from LA who's had everything paid for (college included).

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Astronomer

You got about the same as me! I agree, there are lots of aspects of privilege that the test does not take into account and some statements are very simplified. I answered the test very honestly and only unticked a statement when I know it would not be true for most case scenarios in my life.

I think the reason I got a fairly high privilege rating was that I could tick "yes" for all of the healthcare options, thanks to Australia's public healthcare. So feeling very 'privileged' so to speak to have those options available to me.

It's strange though to think that so many people here on this forum (obviously educated, literate, opinionated and free) scored such low scores when you compare to obvious disadvantage as experienced in third world countries - would they then get MINUS scores?!

Anyway, just thought it was interesting nonetheless!

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I was also surprised too how low most people's scores were. You're right about being poor in a third world country being minus. It didn't really cover the type of country you were in, what your socioeconomic status is, whether you've gone through a disaster (for example in my case, earthquakes which devastated the city I was living in), whether you've gone through PTSD (only mentions depression and mental disorders but I feel that one should be included.

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