prismatic-bell:

cowboyxhiphop:

noctis-nova:

All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

Lemme put it this way. As a right handed person how often have y’all noticed the lack of left handed desks? Right handed accommodated controllers? Where a computer mouse is naturally placed? Not very often I assume. You won’t notice the everyday inconveniences in a world that is MADE FOR YOU.

I have another great example. I work in fast food. I’m 5’6”.

I never realized how very seriously my entire store is laid out for people my height and taller until I had to train a girl who was 4’10”. She couldn’t reach the taco tower. She had to stand on a stepstool to run drivethru. Changing sodas? Forget it. She couldn’t reach.

So I got her a stepstool that wasn’t the store one (which constantly had to be used elsewhere), and I rearranged the taco tower so she could reach. She became one of our fastest employees.

And that is what EXAMINING one’s privilege does.