My route into journalism? Comp school, state sixth form college, writing for the uni paper while at Oxford, work experience at the Times while I stayed in a squat, journalism college, a year on a local newspaper in East End of London on £9k... Yep, privileged all the way. https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/987229001151369216 …
-
-
I believe I was lucky to be given opportunities and the tutors kind enough to give me a chance. I am a teacher so I'm not stupid. Holding a different opinion to you does not mean I am any less or more intelligent tbh

-
I didn’t say that it did, did I? I think not recognising one’s own intelligence is pretty dumb. I went to a camp but I didn’t need extra help from my tutors. Really not sure what your problem is with me saying I got into a good uni because of my own brains not my family.
-
Julia, if you had grown up on an inner city estate you would not have gotten in to Oxbridge. No matter how educated you were. Education alone does not guarantee access. Your background carries a lot of weight.
-
There are some amazing schools doing just that for kids from those backgrounds right now. But yes, of course being a middle class kid makes it FAR easier. But that isn’t the same as being “privileged” in the way that was originally being implied.
-
Lol, that’s almost the dictionary definition of privilege.
-
“I’m not privileged, things are just easier for me because of my background”
-
I refer you back to the original context of this Twitter exchange.
-
Given that tens of millions of Britons are middle class, that’s a hell of a lot of privileged people.
- 12 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable
-
You’re a bit late to this party, mate.
-
This Tweet is unavailable
-
-
-
From your point of view, I'm sure everyone appeared to have a very high IQ.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Then how come British elites are so fucked up?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
U may think of yourself as clever because u went to Oxford but your neither wise nor insightful. Blinkered vision all the way unfortunately.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I met plenty of people at Oxford who were very clever but also profoundly ignorant about how privileged they were!
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Most of the fellow undergraduates I met at Oxford were spectacularly thick posh people. My father (at least as bright as me) had to leave school at 14. I won a scholarship.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
'Then I would suggest you’re not very intelligent.' glass houses there mate
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
My son went to Oxford, he’s working class, proud of it, left-wing and extremely clever.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
And intelligent people can still make mistakes, make terrible, inhumane decisions; intelligence is no guarantee of human decency - as the human race continually confirms.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Sadly you clearly aren't bright enough to wear your intelligence lightly. You come across as a smug smartarse in this thread. Still you went to Oxford so I guess the rest of us should just bow down to the genetic luck of your braininess? Or was it all your own hard work?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.