alt Hacker News> Privilege isn't just about wealth.
Which poor people exactly do you consider privileged, and why?
> The point is that although anyone can ignore the news, the news won't necessarily ignore them!
What can they do about the news, though? I specifically said, "they may feel powerless to change anything".
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resize2996 • today at 2:05 AM
> Which poor people exactly do you consider privileged, and why?
those with insulation from genocide and displacement despite poverty.
their point is that, say, a german peasant in 17th century couldn't avoid the Thirty Years War.
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We live in democracies. The price of entry is a citizenry informed enough to choose how they want many issues of state handled.
The alternative is worse, and the result of an uninformed citizenry can be disasterous and a regression towards non-democracy.