Why does everyone call people privileged so easily?

Question

How poor do you have to be to call anyone privileged?

That’s equivalent to someone living on the streets calling someone who has a normal apartment/house privileged

They aren’t privileged, they’re just normal

Or if they can afford anything…Gaming, Tv, Electronics, Even stuff that normal people would be able to afford

RingOfFire · Accepted Answer

It's a product of two things: envy and political brainwashing.

Envy
People who are insecure and feel like failures have a natural inclination to be jealous and envious of others who they view as more successful. This comes from their own insecurities and sometimes from their own laziness.

Political brainwashing

The Democrats (and the majority of the media which they control) capitalize on this insecurity to appeal to them with "envy politics." You can see this with their constant attack on "the billionaires" and "the rich." They want these insecure people to believe that they are against the people that they envy just like they are and trying to punish them (in fact most of these politicians are stealing their money with corruption and getting rich themselves). This appeals to these insecure people and further feeds their mental problems by promoting an atmosphere of class warfare. Democrats depend on dividing people... race, gender, religion, class... they use it as a political weapon. They cannot survive if people get along because their entire strategy depends on brainwashing the vulnerable to hate.

So these weak minded and insecure people hate the "privileged" boogeyman.

Theunfadeable · Accepted Answer

A lot of poor people are jealous and lazy and hate rich people because they want win at rich people Have and have no intentions of working hard to get it. They don’t even have the drive or dedication to try to succeed.. some of these people. Are just bums and criminals and the educated ones are even more pathetic, cause they don’t even have an excuse for being low achievers. They all have the same mentality so they try to create the perception that everyone with a little money doing well for themselves is somehow immoral for having the willingness to work hard. And live responsibly.

Bum ass motherfuckers!

Unycorn · Accepted Answer

Nobody should judge others. Poor or rich. Living on the streets or in big palaces. Nobody has the right. Not you, not me.

What's normal?

Some tribes live in the jungle and that is normal. I would never say it is poor.

I am not a fan of those mass consumption. So I try not to have more electronics than I must. Less ia more and the more simple the more useful. In most cases. TV, mobile phone (s) ... that luxury. In my mind.

I would never judge people because of this.

And you've maybe never walked in other shoes than yours. I don't know.

I had very hard times. I never was jealous. I never said anything bad about richer people or people that have less. Never!

Vneila21 · Accepted Answer

I watched this in a class of mine. It was interesting how she talked about everybody having privilege. I will paraphrase how she described privilege: as something you hold dear that improves your wellbeing. Improvement makes me think of potential, how we rise to the challenge to change our realities. If we all have privileges, I see no reason to envy how anyone has more privilege than others. Being rude because you have more privileges is something entirely different. After class, I thought of describing it as utopias rather than privileges because privileges can get taken away. This is a 14-minute video.

REDBRA36c · Answer

The root cause is the ungrateful nature of corrupt sinful humanity and the love for money and the selfish discontentment for power and recognition.

Especially with the Marxist National Socialist fascist mindset: those who work hard and earn what they worked so hard for with the inventions, goods, or services provided to the customers they serve are selfish and greedy for spending or saving the money they earned. The lazy, poor, and needy need stolen money handed out to them regardless of any stipulations. They see charity as forcefully robbing the hardworking taxpayers of their earned money in order to freely hand it out to the lazy, poor, and needy. At some point the hardworkers will also do nothing as the worker and the lazy, poor, and needy will receive the same benefits. No one will then do anything.

I don’t know of any case where a poor person employed anyone.

In a lot of cases, I can’t afford living in a very basic studio apartment in some apartment building and I make too much in order to live in low income “affordable” government housing.

Also, predominantly the single minority mothers with children living off government taxpayer funded dependency programs can somehow afford luxury items those living paycheck to paycheck are unable to afford.

Depending on the given scenario, I believe the majority of honest people who can afford nice houses and land and can go on vacations throughout the year an can afford nice things and have been wise with their money with spending and saving and have earned whatever perceived “privilege” they now apparently possess as only the tip of the iceberg.

It is greedy corrupt ungrateful human nature to covet someone else’s tip-of-the-iceberg without acknowledging all the struggles and trials such a person has gone through in order to earn the rewards for their efforts.

To some point, broke people live beyond their means for the attention of others. Hardworking wealthy “privileged” people have earned what they have acquired, know the value of money, and ration their spending with their saving or investments, and live below their means, not for the attention of others.

From my perspective, those who negatively criticize others for the results of the others’ efforts are insecure in themselves wanting the benefits without the work. Those who have earned what they have acquired do not have to prove anything else.

The love for money is the root of all various sorts of wrongs against others’ private property or achievements.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

Everyone in the US is privileged. Arguably, everyone in all of western civilization is privileged. Pointing that out has value. A lot of people take their privilege for granted. Many deny it outright. This is a clear sign that they’re not spending any amount of time with people who are less fortunate than themselves.
Unfortunately for the cause, many of those same people have weaponized the perception of privilege as a way to vilify their sociopolitical opposition.
If you’re offended by the accusation, then you would do well to examine your situation and take accounting of your blessings. If you find it difficult to do so, volunteer your time and energy with programs that help people who are less fortunate. Once you see good people struggling, it’s much easier to recognize your privilege and be thankful for it.

jshm2 · Answer

Why are you so riled up about people not knowing the meaning of words?

If they want to act entitled, and judgmental, then let them. Just be sure to tell them they need a better education before talking about others.

thegreenyogi · Answer

Because the fact that privilege is a consequence of very, very hard work which comes first in order to have privileges is ignored.

Massageman · Answer

Because they are too easily manipulated. So many of these supposed "underprivileged" are running around with cell phones and Apple Watches, too.

LC75LC71 · Answer

Lack of actual thought/attention span. Also it's 99% on the internet.

Anonymous · Answer

Usually because they are some privileged people out there.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Because we are stuck on "opressor/oppressed" brain.

Anonymous · Answer

It's all relative  You sound privileged though🙂

Anonymous · Answer

privileged is all relative.

Sal_Monella · Answer

Jealousy and envy

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