Check Your Privilege!

[BobblyDrink]

23/100

This wasn't a fun way to start off my day like I thought it was going to be.

 

[DjinnFor]

I'm a white, straight male and I got a 48/100 even though I answered 100% honestly.

Oddly enough, this is exactly how mine turned out. I even grew up in a middle class family.

 

[Voulan]

71/100, being "quite privileged". I suspect that it's mostly because of being in a decent income family and not yet having much in the way of financial concerns, being heterosexual and an atheist (although I'd like to note that the quiz didn't consider the idea of defending being an atheist. I've had people tell me I'm just confused or not old enough to have a proper opinion, which must be the most opposite view I've ever heard). Also while I am a different ethnicity I am mostly white so no one can actually tell by looking at me.

 

[wAriot]

As a deist, it's hard to be "attacked" by people of other religions, since most don't even know what it is.
Also, "place for worship"? I'm guessing in my case it could be anywhere?

 

[Auberon]

56/100, Quite Privileged

Ignoring the fact that Nordic countries are apparently famous for free healthcare, (mostly) free education, I have enough savings and spendings to balance out my student grant with monthly expenses to maintain 5000? threshold for bank benefits, privileges on being a student and I've lived most of my life in backwater towns without much immigrants.


That test probably should account for country in hindsight, since Fenno-Scandinavia should add privilege points.

 

[tgbennett30]

61/100

When it came to the various disabilities, I can say that I don't have any diagnosed. But there was one...

"I do not have any learning disabilities."
You see, if you knew me, you would understand why this is a bit complicated. When I was a kid, I was diagnosed with epilepsy (its actually more complicated than it sounds). As a result, I took several medications for it. Which slowed me mentally. I was placed in Learning Disabled and even Severely Learning Disabled classes.

I can literally remember looking up at a poster of a circle representing a human head with ears made from "d" and "b" which was explaining the difference. And not getting it. It just didn't click. I remember getting ouster crackers in class. I can probably find the rooms if I ever went back to that school.

But I was taken out of it after my mom took me off the medicine against doctor's orders (haven't had any seizures or anything). Even placed in honors classes in the following years. But I can say that this had a long term affect.

I also was in Speech Therapy due to an ear infection I had as a baby that seems to have screwed up my speech. Imagine saying "Stop" as "Sop" and having trouble with "R" words. I swear I still have trouble with words like "roar", but I've been told it's perfectly fine. Don't think it was bad? My sister was regularly called into my classes to "translate". Yeah, Spanish was fun.

So, where do I stand on that? I put that I don't have a disability, for the record.

I don't know. This feels deeply flawed. But maybe I'm just too privileged.

This is why this is an utterly bogus quiz.

I'm deaf (and I wasn't born that way), and my deafness sure as heck affects me on a daily basis a lot more than racism or sexism or whatever affects my friends who fit in the quiz's non-privileged categories.

 

[Folji]

Is the whole internet on some kind of privilege craze?

53/100, apparently. Guess poor me for being gay but never having any problem with it. And otherwise living a perfectly standard life for big city university studies, or somtehing!

 

[Serioli]

White, male, heterosexual, atheist UK resident.

48/100.

Thanks Obama.

 

[Todstyak]

38..............enough said

 

[Montezuma's Lawyer]

17/100

What an utter load of shit this is, appearently having parents who are heterosexual increases your privilege?

What a fucking joke, back to tumblr with this nonsense.

 

[The Material Sheep]

I didn't quite understand what the questions at the end were trying to get at. Were they pretending headmates were a thing, or was it some other buzzword way of describing a situation?

Also 33/100

And honestly, I've felt pretty damn content with life, in fact that sales job it considered a negative I was so good at it got me a career. Lovely how things work out sometimes.

 

[Raesvelg]

That was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

Reality check: If you're posting on this site, you're almost undoubtedly privileged in comparison to the vast majority of the world.

Hell, I know I'm privileged as hell and I still scored a 42/100. Apparently because getting my feelings hurt as an atheist in a Catholic school means I've been oppressed or some bullshit like that.

 

[DMShade]

I got a 26. Interestingly, many statements that sound like they should have been linked or gone hand in hand, did NOT when I answered them honestly.

 

[C14N]

I'm not giving Buzzfeed an extra page view but are they seriously calling you less privileged for being an atheist?

 

[NSGrendel]

"You live with 35 out of 100 points of privilege."

As tests go - apart from being US centric, like 99% of people, it's worthless. Like most people too, now that I think of is. In retrospect, taking this test makes you a fucking moron.

 

[NSGrendel]

I'm not giving Buzzfeed an extra page view but are they seriously calling you less privileged for being an atheist?

Yes. They are. Do you have a response to that or are you just trying to appeal to a general sense of outrage?

 

[HK_01]

Well, this questionnaire really is quite specific to the US, many of the issues are not the ones that are prevalent in my country (Germany).

 

[sumanoskae]

59-100

Considering that I live in the US, have an internet connection, food and a roof over my head, I consider myself pretty fucking privileged.

 

[ThreeName]

I'm not giving Buzzfeed an extra page view but are they seriously calling you less privileged for being an atheist?

It's idiotic when you consider that atheism is, most likely, directly correlated with education and socio-economic status, at least in the US, which are things that make you more privileged on the very same test.

Fucking morons.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Firstly, rape, suicide, depression, bullying and being over or under weight have nothing to do with privilege. They can happen to anyone, anywhere at any time. Bill Gates could be raped tomorrow. Oxford and Cambridge are infamous for their hazing and "pranks".

Privilege is far more complicated than "could it hypothetically happen to you?" If you're a straight male, you're at a far lesser risk of being raped than a female or a queer male. Have you ever felt that casual male friends would be willing to sexually violate you? What about random males on the street? Odds are you haven't, or at least you haven't felt that sense of threat in the same way or at the same rate as a female. That is privilege, being able to go through your day without justifiable fear of sexual assault is privilege.

What about regular assault? Because men are more likely to be assaulted than women on the streets, yet men don't fear it as much as women, what does that fall under?