How privileged are you?

[Agschmid]

I got 50 of 100 or "Quite Priviledged" I wouldn't disagree with that.

How about you?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you?utm_term=.wtaZE0rj41#.bc0O0lJ2j5

[gratuitous]

1. Incredibly so

And I'd like everyone else to enjoy those privileges, too. Doesn't hurt me at all.

[Just reading posts]

2. 79 out of 100. "Most Privileged".

You’re among the most privileged people in the world. We don’t live in an ideal world, but you happened to be born into an ideal lot.

[some guy]

3. Very.

Tall (over 6'), dark (hair & eyes), and handsome (literal definition of my name), white male, born into a society designed for people (who look like) like me.

I've still struggled to find my place in this society. I used to think the problem was me, but I finally realized this is a society run by sociopaths. Little wonder I don't fit in.

I succeed fairly easily, except in my own mind.


(I didn't clck the link, I don't want to answer 100 questions, or check off 100 identifiers.)

[yeoman6987]

4. 58 out of 100

Not bad. I thought it'd be higher but I am middle of the road privilege.

[elleng]

5. Quite. 71 out of 100.

[HubertHeaver]

6. It is a BOS questionnaire.

I got 48 of 100 or "not privileged at all".

[GummyBearz]

27. I'd say its a BS questionnaire

Not sure what BOS is but probably something similar.

Half of the questions are worded very poorly. For example "Do you buy new clothes at least once a month"... I haven't bought new clothes in fucking years, but that isn't because I don't have the money to, I just hate shopping

[HubertHeaver]

31. Same stuff, different acronym

Yes, very poorly worded questions. More like a push-poll.

[jamese777]

54. The Average American

Spends $121 a month or $1,452 per year on clothing.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/what-consumers-spend-each-month/

[Behind the Aegis]

7. 28 out of 100

Fascinating.

[Warpy]

9. I got 30

mostly because the "I have never been bashed for____" stuff didn't apply to growing up in Dixie. I got bashed for everything down there. Now I'm old and any privilege I might have had has evaporated into the "too many birthdays" category.

[LostOne4Ever]

8. 54 out 100. I think that is a bit too low. No, it is way way too low. nt

[herding cats]

10. To the point it's not my responsibility to educate others on the issue.

I didn't realize I had that many factors in the not privileged column before, and I'm not 100% sure I do even now. I'm much more fortunate than many in the hand I was dealt.

Overall I still scored pretty high at 42.

[Eko]

12. I got 27 out of 100.

I can see why, still pretty happy though.

[MrScorpio]

13. 53 out of 100

I can dig it.

[tblue37]

14. Apparently not:

You live with 33 out of 100 points of privilege.

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.

[Lucky Luciano]

15. 79/100 - most of the points subtracted were from questions re wealth.

A lot if the questions were not completely relevant though...since I am 43, asking if my parents pay my bills is not relevant for example.

[annabanana]

16. I don't have to look it up

As a white, heterosexual, college educated female with an adequate defined benefit retirement income I know that I beloved of the power structure. I could only be more privileged if I were male and had more money.

[a la izquierda]

17. 37/100

Most of it because I grew up poor, with a lesbian mother, and major anxieties.

Now I'm a woman in a male dominated field and well aware of pay and opportunity gaps.

[oberliner]

18. Clickbait Buzzfeed garbage

With really stupid question that illustrate exactly nothing other than how eager people are to click on links and take surveys.

[cwydro]

19. I'm a gay, white, college-educated female, and I feel pretty privileged.

I was raised well, speak well, and have good manners.

I've never felt discriminated against because of my sexual orientation, though I have suffered discrimination because of my gender on occasion.

[trof]

20. 57

[ryan_cats]

21. What

What a load of tripe.

Do people really want to cloak themselves in the victim-hood garment?

[Agschmid]

23. ?

Ummm...

[ryan_cats]

24. Read

Read the question again and tell me exactly what response they are going for and their target audience? Do forgive if I am so crass as to point this out.

[steve2470]

41. so you have an issue with the concept of privilege ?

I'll stipulate it seems the quiz was poorly written, but you might want to have a word with the AA, LGBT and Jewish communities, among others.

[ryan_cats]

43. Um

Um, I am a member of one of those communities.
My problem is with the poor me I am a victim. Do white male heterosexuals get privilege? Yes, no doubt. Does that mean you cannot succeed on your own, no and people need to stop blaming others for whatever lack of success they have.

[steve2470]

44. okies nt

[Agschmid]

55. Yup.

[greatauntoftriplets]

22. 67 out of 100

[Hiraeth]

25. 21/100 =

You live with 21 out of 100 points of privilege.

You’re underprivileged. The world is not a fair or ideal place and you know that because you grew up with several identities that the world is not kind to. You had a lot of challenges to overcome simply to get on a level playing field with most people in the world. It is not your job to educate the world about its injustices, but if you choose to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.

[stonecutter357]

28. 53 out of 100.

[gwheezie]

29. I got 49

But inspite of periods of homelessness and poverty, my privilege worked so that thought of those times as temporary episodes. It never entered my mind that I was in a system that didn't work for me.

[Tsiyu]

30. 22 of 100

Probably for abuse, times of poverty and being a pagan baby in a fundamentalist Christian crib.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

32. 17

[moriah]

33. I got 40, but am disabled female and Pagan. I didn't count my 1.5 on the Kinsey scale for the quiz.

[Nye Bevan]

34. 61/100 (nt)

[Nye Bevan]

35. WTF is with "I have never worked as a waiter, barista, bartender, or salesperson"?

So people who've only ever worked in chicken processing plants or construction crews are more privileged than baristas or salespeople?

[ShrimpPoboy]

38. Its a poorly constructed quiz

But I think the point of that question was that children of the very rich rarely have to work in service industry jobs like that. I'm sure that's also true, if not more so, of factory work and construction. A lot of the questions could be worded differently.

[steve2470]

45. yea that was one of the several poor items

The buying clothes once a month thing struck me as really odd. Yea, I could buy clothes every month, but WHY ? To me that's just a waste of money, your mileage may vary (not you Nye, the generic you).

[Nye Bevan]

47. It's like the test was devised by a privileged white guy whose concept of "privilege"

is based only on his own personal experience. He feels bad for his buddies whose parents insist that they get a job as a barista or waiter to contribute to their college tuition, so that made the test, but he's never met, or is ever likely to meet, someone who works in a chicken processing plant.

Oh and BTW, it's also amusing that the tester thinks that not having student loans and not knowing what "Sallie Mae" is are always signs of being privileged.

[steve2470]

48. yep nt

[JanMichael]

59. There might be an assumption as to who (or whom?) will take the "quiz" or something else.

The children of the truly rich, particularly the staggeringly rich, have probably never had to do a 2am closing of a bar (unless it was parent bankrolled) or smile at scumbags for a tip to pay bills. Not ever.

Those that are moderately well off now, and from lower to middle income and wealth families, probably went to college and probably did whatever they had to do to either pay for tuition or pay for rent and living. Mostly soft labor jobs for the children of the middle classes, not the ones that are good for losing fingers, hands, hearing, vision, mobility or getting melanoma.

There is a huge class divide in the numbers of people that do the listed "menial" jobs and the ones you mentioned. I have family that have done both.

[DemocraticWing]

65. I thought that question sucked too. I used to make minimum wage in retail, for instance.

And I know people with much worse jobs than that, including those dreaded chicken houses that make you stink like shit and work in terrible heat.

[LiberalArkie]

36. 37 Seems low, but I feel that I have been lucky most of my life.

You live with 37 out of 100 points of privilege.
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.

[bunnies]

37. 39 nt

[wryter2000]

39. 61

I was well aware of my privilege before I took the test, though.

[steve2470]

40. no need to take this, I'm a white male, middle aged, college educated etc but.....

I took it anyway out of sheer curiosity. 75. Some of the items are definitely debatable and not relevant IMHO.

[ShrimpPoboy]

42. 62 quite privileged

About what I thought.

I would have worded some of the questions differently but it's still a good exercise in recognizing what can constitute privilege.

[MrMickeysMom]

46. This is how fucked up this OP is...

On Sun Jun 19, 2016, 12:36 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7931463

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Victim-hood garment sounds pretty right wing to me but I'll let the jury decide

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Funny, but my comment wasn't saved. Maybe I fat fingered it, but what I WANT to say is, what kind of a survey do we have to give ourselves to validate who we are that uses THIS tripe? Shame on you.

[jamese777]

53. It looks like quite a few folks

Disagree with you.

[Agschmid]

56. Uhhh... It's a Buzzfeed article.

Y'all need to calm down.

[GulfCoast66]

49. 79

Correctly labeled as about as privelage dad they come without being born rich.

[romanic]

50. Such tripe.

How about helping others who need it, regardless of how privileged you are, instead of wasting time taking useless online quizzes and patting yourself on the back for knowing how much privilege you have instead.

[jamese777]

51. 49 out if 100

Not privileged according to the questionaire but I feel that I am quite privileged compared to many Americans.

My result said: 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."

[Separation]

52. This test is deeply flawed

You live with 21 out of 100 points of privilege.
You’re underprivileged. The world is not a fair or ideal place and you know that because you grew up with several identities that the world is not kind to. You had a lot of challenges to overcome simply to get on a level playing field with most people in the world. It is not your job to educate the world about its injustices, but if you choose to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.

After edit, I did have to flub some of the questions because I have been called many names and traveled the world in the military. However I dont think thats what they meant when they said, "Have you ever been called a fag or a dyke", or "Have you traveled internationally". However the rest of the questions I answered correctly.

[Juicy_Bellows]

57. 33 - seems pretty low.

Interesting though.

[Marrah_G]

58. It really is a bullshit quiz

I scored a 33, but found questions that I had to answer yes, but there was no nuance.

[JanMichael]

60. Oh my f'ing god how weird can people be? Of course it is not perfect!

This is not some peer reviewed journal submitted questionnaire for someones doctorate or for a researcher...

It is an online quiz. Oh my god the questions are lame! BFD.

Overall it is an interesting quiz especially when you look at our DU sample scores in this thread. Oh no a baseline!

I scored a 64. Of course they had some religious persecution questions but as an atheist I had to fit my experiences into the religious mainstreams categories. It was not that hard though.

[wysi]

61. 67/100

White hetero male, so no surprises there. The only thing I lost points on was because of getting picked on at school for being small for my age, and being occasionally broke in my 20's.

[VOX]

62. 55/100...n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

63. The primary privilege I lack is the belief that I have standing to write these tests

and define the criteria by which all others should be judged.

[Agschmid]

64. Lol.