He is almost certainly striaght, cismale, white, healthy and educated, a combination of privlidges many people don't have.
Poundland Girl Wins Forced Labour Ruling
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He is almost certainly striaght, cismale, white, healthy and educated, a combination of privlidges many people don't have.
But I thought it was fun to stay there?
Being 'straight' is not a privilege it is a sexual orientation you muppet.
Considering the advantages us straight people get over non straight people, it is, I consider myself very lucky to be straight, if you are gay you can't even get married to the person you love currently! Let alone all the homophobia you have to suffer through in society.
Check your privilege kid, you will be surprised.
How do you know I am straight? You assume. And therefore demonstrate you make the same judgments you are so happy to denounce other people for. /golfclap
You may want to check some of those other assumptions you've handed out there to like ... kid, not immigrant, white etc ...
People dig and have tweak at each other all the time here but you are the only one who seems so happy to resort to actual physical threats and yet so willing to castigate everyone else on all this twaddle. You have serious issues I am quite sure I am not the only one who thinks this.
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Only someone without vast privilege would say something as dumb as
"Being 'straight' is not a privilege it is a sexual orientation you muppet."
So its pretty safe to say you are probably privileged and you have never ever checked it, and its probably safe to say part of that privilege is your fortune in bring born straight.
When have I resorted to physical threats?! LOL
Keep crying privileged little dude.
So it's a concept used to promote racism, sexism and other forms of irrational prejudice and discrimination. Because that's what those movements are for. Well, that and hypocrisy.
I particularly liked the several references (with different phrasing) to the same idea - that being straight is a privilege because you don't need to identify yourself by your sexuality. That's hypocritical to the point of being bizarre when it's used by people who choose to regard the sexuality of everyone, including themselves, as being not just an identifying feature but the defining feature.
Representatives from Sue Ryder are saying anything that will put a positive spin on the situation where possible and cover up what the organisation has done when a positive spin is impossible. Usual propaganda stuff. That's why, for example, they call the forced labour they use "volunteers" when obviously they aren't.
Sue Ryder have done something bad for money. Campaigners have made that public enough for it to have backfired and reduced revenue, which might affect the salaries of people at decision-making levels in Sue Ryder. So they're throwing the FUD out as hard as possible. Anything to muddy the waters. Imply that campaigners are violent nutjobs who might attack the volunteers and "volunteers". Claim that the "volunteers" enjoy being forced to work for no pay. Keep on using forced labour and hope that the propaganda holds for long enough for forced labour to stop being an issue. Almost all campaigns fade away quite quickly. Once it stops being in the mainstream media, most people forget about it. So by "phasing out" their use of forced labour, Sue Ryder can carry on using it. The "phasing out" gets them through the inconvenient period during which forced labour is an issue for enough people to reduce revenue for the organisation (and thus threaten the salaries of the few at the top).
"Dumb" hmm hardly PC is it ... do you often jest at people with disabilities when promoting your personal agenda? Again making assumptions. Not only that by attributing characters of a group onto individuals in a group ie discrimination and prejudice. Nietzsche - abyss mean anything to you?
I rather suspect that it was you born into privilege but you are strangely angry at anyone else. Why is that? Do you regret what you did with those opportunities? Are you that jealous of the people who actually made something of their life? Could have been you and yet it wasn't - that's down to circumstance and you - not the fault of everyone else. Maybe it's time to stop championing the rights of the abused and the downtrodden to hide what you have done and have to do to make ends meet, eh?
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Being discriminated about is a factor, living in privilege with no such discrimination means it is not an identifier something that effects you, being discriminated is.
This country will never function normally if big companies are allowed to use free forced labour, completely disregarding free market economics which are task maskers tout only when it suits them, but ignores when supplying free slave labour and things like bail outs, it ruins the whole concept of fairness, but then, its all about the millionairs helping each other become more wealthy thats all.
Dumb as in stupid, but yes, good point well made, I will check my privilege more and strive to be a better person.
I'm angry at the treatment of those who are poor off, I am in an exceedingly privileged place, having been born to a good family that raised me to a high standard of education, im wealthy, extremely healthy, self employed, straight, white and have a good set of hair, I hit the genetic lottery really.
I champion the rights of the down trodden because its the right thing to do.
"All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing"
I have nothing personal to directly gain from combating homophobia for instance, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to do it.
You need to check your own attitude if that's why you think I am trying to help the downtrodden, not all of us are that selfish to only do something for our own gain, some of us do things just because its the right thing to do.
Its amazing we manage to get by as well as we do.
Which country would you like the UK to function like?