Its basically a scoreboard for how disadvantaged you have. Except that if you analyze it even a little, you'll realize that the numbers make no sense. Blind is three times worse than paralyzed, being Muslim makes you less privileged even if you live in the Middle East, being very short apparently puts you at a net disadvantage even if you're rich, ect.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure this was meant seriously.
So how many points do you gain for misspelling "Austist" and how do you qualify for a height of Manly Tears?
Gee, I feel (more? Less? "You're a teacher? Cool, I'm a technology!") privileged for having read that.
I know this is old, but still. How can I be less privileged for being a latino? That's kind of racist.
I think someone at some point basically proved that chart was a joke.
As for being less privileged for being Latino, it has to do with theoretical societal attitudes toward a person. So if you're Latino, the idea is that people are less accepting of you than if you weren't. I sort of get the idea, but, yes, it does border on racist in itself at times. It's all a part of Tumblr's sophisticated-to-the-point-of-incomprehensibility privilege ranking system.
I think on Tumblr the lower you are on that 'privilege ranking system' the higher you are in the pecking order. Kinda fucking weird.
Of course. Spot on.
So a superrich
1 highly attractive tall athletic white cisgender heterosexual Swedish Jewish investment banker doing this on Sunday or a weeknight and capable of adding will inevitably get lynched on Tumblr.
2But a disfigured, fat, ugly-faced homeless diseased autistic deaf blind paralyzed retarded gay black Middle Eastern
3 intersex transgender Muslim scientist of "dodger" height (whatever that means) doing this on Saturday night and incapable of basic math would in theory
4 run the town.
1. This is for a point that we already discussed, that the chart lists "plutocrat" at $1 trillion, while
literally no one on Earth has that much money. So I'm substituting the imprecise "superrich" to give the same idea.
2. Ironically this essentially describes, minus the Swedish part, a good number of the lesser celebrities whom other Tumblrites worship.
3. Actually, were this person to live in the Middle East, their life
would be tremendously difficult. I'll give them that.
4. I think there's a Tumblr out there by a person like this, but I can't be bothered to find out.