Whooo yeah - sure glad I chose to be born white, and middle class, in the American suburbs. Best decision I ever made.
I realize folks who post this crap on social media aren't consciously going outa their way to be shitty. This is not intended to be mean-spirited. Indeed, it's supposed to be a good Life Lesson for all those mopey little pity puppies out there who just need to buck up and put on their big-girl panties and lace 'em up and get in there and blah blah blah.
But the lack of intent to be shitty doesn't make it less shitty for someone not born to the dominant demographic.
We start with a (mostly) appropriate feeling of pride and gratitude where our own situations are concerned, but we end up with the kind of bullshit attitude that poor people are poor - and they have all those poor people problems - because they're somehow morally deficient.
And that ends up making us say some of the stoopidest fucking things:
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