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Thursday, August 06, 2020

entry arrow11:06 PM | This is Privilege Misbranding Itself as Privilege


A version of this article has been going around, but I always thought it was a joke somebody Photoshopped to make it look like the real deal from Business Insider. Turns out ... the article's real. And it's just ridiculous to know how the privileged can rebrand that privilege as "empowerment." In the real world, almost no one ever gets ahead without daddy's money or connections, or a lucky windfall, or in this case, mommy's "gift" of a job and some real estate. The "hardship" described here has nothing on real hardship. This is not empowerment. [For a bigger image, click here.]



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