A new definition for privilege of any race in the United States would be a believes that the police are here to serve and protect, and the idea that anywhere is safe. For me and so many this is not a theory. my criminal record consists of two speeding tickets in 58 years of life.
1
3
The violence I know would scare most coddled humans and this is one reason I'm afraid to write Memoirs as people have asked because it would be so fucking shocking to the mild-mannered and well- born. And that violence came at the hands of my own family and those they let take me
1
3
I'd lay odds that those of us who grew up with white and class privilege are a lot more likely to suffer violence from family than from police. And then there's the medical trauma from the assumption that women's medical problems are imaginary.
2
1
Replying to @salliegoetsch
Because of what you say about women. Because I just lost my husband I was fired from the last job I had my mother was dying craziest she was I loved her I was depressed. a welfare check meant breaking into my house and surrounding a sleeping woman at gunpoint ready to shoot her.

Jan 29, 2021 · 9:11 PM UTC

2
Replying to @mholzschlag @salliegoetsch
Also it affects Diagnostics in mental health whatever mental health means. PTSD was not a woman's option in the USA in my time so it was either histrionic or borderline personality disorder when most do not meet core criteria and are given no physical or differential Diagnostics.
2
A minor aside Sally I never once mentioned white nor did I mention class as definitive of what I am defining as privilege. surely they play in as you yourself have pointed out so astutely. Thank you for expanding the conversation it's important.
Replying to @mholzschlag
My impression, looking back at my environment and family, is that telling anyone about the violence was a worse crime than inflicting it. Years later I discovered I wasn't the only one at my private school who dealt with that kind of thing.
1
1
I have this same experience. I think it may be why I became so unfiltered and "out" in all the things. I got sick of the not telling as it did more harm to me and my siblings and others I knew than imaginable. I empathize deeply with you in this.
1
more replies