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by maxheadroom 2616 days ago
Intsead of assuming an amicable posit, say that I were an immigrant (hint: I am) or the like, you - instead - opt for the worst: That I must've come from the land of Eire and that I must, therefore, be talking out of my arse - because the ESRI doesn't constitute access to water as criteria for poverty and because we could only be talking about someone who grew-up and lived in Ireland their whole life, yeah?

So, pardon me for asking this question but does this not demonstrate the myopic view that the aforementioned privelege entails? In other words, just because you (as an overall whole) had this kind of access (e.g.: water, socialised medicine, etc.) your entire life, it doesn't equate to everyone having had the same, yeah?

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Assuming that a guide in Ireland is mostly for people born in Ireland isn't privilege. It is myopic, but that doesn't make it wrong. It's a searching tool, not expected to be perfect, and impossible to make perfect; no matter what someone is doing, there could always be some healthy reason.

It's not about just you.