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@ AKA Smith
To tell you the truth, I lived in poverty much of life. I was once homeless and once lived on $500 a month --yes in the 21st century, so I, like many people who have been truly poor have a bit of trouble feeling privileged.
If this is true, and you were living on $500 a month in the 21st century, then that means that within the last eight years, you've improved your situation to the point where you now teach students somewhere (kind of a frightening thought), presumably now have a roof over your head, and can apparently afford to spend all day arguing on the internet, instead of panhandling for dinner.
How many homeless people earning six grand a year can say this, do you think? And how is that not reflective of some sort of privilege on your part, even if it's just the privilege of having been born in a country where such things are possible?