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 …
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Lol, that’s almost the dictionary definition of privilege.
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“I’m not privileged, things are just easier for me because of my background”
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I refer you back to the original context of this Twitter exchange.
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Given that tens of millions of Britons are middle class, that’s a hell of a lot of privileged people.
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Yes, it is. Your point being?
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On that definition, more than half the population is privileged. Anyone whose parents aren’t penniless alcoholics is privileged by comparison to those whose parents are. We all live on a spectrum. Your definition is dumb.
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Flattered that you think I came up with the definition. Privilege is relative and can easily be a case of the majority having privileges that the minority don’t. In fact, it is often so. See: white people vs POC, straight vs LGBTQ people. This is basic stuff.
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Dear god, this is painful. If half the country is privilged just like me, why doesn’t half the country go to the top two universities? What other selection criteria are being used, do you think?
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If your parents can afford to buy property in the catchment areas of those 'amazing' schools go check it out) then you're privileged.
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No, the schools I’m talking about are mostly populated by pupils from local council estates.
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That isn't the 'unprivileged' background you suggest you come from - but these 'amazing' schools success rates aren't that amazing either.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/20/oxford-cambridge-not-changed-diversity-even-worse-admissions …
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I guess it's all a matter of perspective. You, as a middle class child might not see your position to be privileged, but I'm guessing a child from an inner city sink estate might be inclined to disagree.
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If being a middle class kid makes it 'easier' in your opinion, wouldn't that mean that by definition a working class child would be at a disadvantage?pic.twitter.com/F3R4orTkwY
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I think not recognizing one's own privilege is pretty dumb.
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Middle class is privileged.
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Erm, I think that’s exactly the meaning of privilege
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