Privilege
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478 examples of Privilege in a sentence
So we went to the school, and because we were nobodies, and because we didn't have privilege, and because my father didn't have the right last name, he was treated like dirt.
Because of doctor-patient privilege, they couldn't really tell us what was going on.
And while this is a small sample of my 25 students, all of them agreed that not only are they capable of having these conversations, but they view it, the right to learn it, as a right and not as a
privilege.
What you take for granted is a
privilege
for others.
That task, that privilege, belongs to our descendants.
I am a white, able-bodied guy sitting nearly at the peak of
privilege
mountain.
But I must say, the older I've gotten, the more I realize what an incredible
privilege
it was to have spent so many hours with this aging lion of a man.
And I'd like to believe that the
privilege
fired within me the drive to understand the inner person behind the public figure, that I've tried to bring to each of my books since then.
It can sometimes seem like a race to the bottom, where everyone is calling out somebody else's
privilege
and vying to show that they are the most hard-done-by person in the conversation.
For example, they could be three types of privilege: rich, white and male.
And finally, people with none of those types of
privilege.
And at the bottom, with the least privilege, non-rich, nonwhite, non-male people.
We have gone from a diagram of factors of 30 to a diagram of interaction of different types of
privilege.
The first is that each arrow represents a direct loss of one type of
privilege.
Sometimes people mistakenly think that white
privilege
means all white people are better off than all nonwhite people.
White
privilege
doesn't exist."
But that's not what the theory of white
privilege
says.
If we look along the second-to-top row, where people have two types of privilege, we might be able to see that they're not all particularly equal.
And that tension exists between the layers of
privilege
in the diagram and the absolute
privilege
that people experience in society.
Because they are considered to be high up in this cuboid of privilege, but in terms of absolute privilege, they don't actually feel the effect of it.
So we could move to a whole context of women, and our three types of
privilege
could now be rich, white and cisgendered.
For example, I know and I feel that as an Asian person, I am less privileged than white people because of white
privilege.
First, Teresia paid the county government market fees every single working day for the
privilege
of setting up shop under her tree.
This is now commercialized by Empatica, a start-up that I had the
privilege
to cofound, and the team there has done an amazing job improving the technology to make a very beautiful sensor that not only tells time and does steps and sleep and all that good stuff, but this is running real-time AI and machine learning to detect generalized tonic-clonic seizures and send an alert for help if I were to have a seizure and lose consciousness.
I had the
privilege
of working in Haiti just for two weeks earlier this year.
I've had the
privilege
of living by a meadow for the last little while, and it is terribly engaging.
Here's an example: if I were to tell you, let's play a little coin toss game, and I'm going to flip a coin, and if it comes up heads, I'm going to pay you 10 dollars, but you have to pay four dollars for the
privilege
of playing with me, most of you would say, sure, I'll take that bet.
Recently, I was at a conference and I had the
privilege
of hearing her mother speak.
And what a
privilege
it is to be able to make someone else laugh.
Parents and teachers certainly have the
privilege
to shape children's behavior.
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