(01-10-2022, 05:30 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:You don't have to like him, you don't have to empathise with the Serbs. You don't have to like them either (in my experience, most anglo saxons, hate people from the balkans anyway) but to label someone who went through that, white male and privliged??
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If you didnt see war in your nation when you were 12, you cant comment here and call him privileged.
I'm guessing you're well aware I never used the label white male privilege. Whatever p!ssing contest you and LP are having over that, leave me out of it.
If you look back at my posts, you'll see I had a go at the privilege rich tennis superstars exercise. I cited 2 examples: Djokovic & Serena Williams. You'll note there's no through line there when it comes to being white males.
As for the notion being a child witness to bombings in your youth gives you lifelong immunity from being regarded as privileged, my counter-example is Queen Elizabeth II who was in Buckingham Palace when it was bombed by the Germans and lived through the Blitz well aware of the toll it was taking on Londoners. She was about 14. Would it be outrageous to consider her privileged? (Edit: Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II's mother, was the one who was present; the then princess and her sister were sent to the country).
No one's suggesting Novak was privileged when he was a child, but he sure is now.


