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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Replying to @Nendick @Stroud_Green and
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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Replying to @JuliaHB1 @Stroud_Green and
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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Replying to @Nendick @Stroud_Green and
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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Replying to @JuliaHB1 @Stroud_Green and
Well we agree on it being painful. No one is saying it’s the only criterion. What they are saying (and what you admitted yourself a few tweets up ffs) is that getting into Oxford is easier if you are middle class. That is privilege.
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Replying to @Nendick @Stroud_Green and
It was easier because I had parents who cared about education & were aspirational. Nothing to stop any parent from doing that, as stats on high achievement of kids of low income immigrant families testify. Not privilege in the sense that was being implied, ie. money & contacts.
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Replying to @Jonny_favourite @JuliaHB1 and
And remember: if your parents didn't have lots of money then it must have been because they weren't "aspirational" and they "didn't care about education". Adverse material circumstances are always the result of moral failings.pic.twitter.com/LBsugdxTQZ
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Your grasp of basic logic is alarmingly bad.
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