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That's not my point. You cannot infer from the color of my skin how hard or easy my life has been.

What just happened was, someone commented that I have it easy because of my supposed white privilege. They simply just assumed I'm from a white middle class post-college family just because of my skin color.

Now if this was real life, and I worked at some nice company, now I have to fear people blaming my position and my state in life because of my privilege, when in reality it was me who struggled day and night with basic necessities to get to where I am today.

Nobody is denying that privilege exists in our little micro upper class bubble, which is my point exactly. Did some hiring manager have a better outlook on me when they first met me? Yeah probably, but that doesn't do shit for me if I can't back myself up with good work.

It's just such a dumb inane topic. I am now being discredited and disregarded because of "white privilege".

The benefits of being a white male in this society are negligible at BEST.

Way to spin this in a nice tone, you must be great in sales. No I am not telling you to "check your privilege".

I am asking you to not discredit ME based on your definition of privilege, which is really just a generalization under a different name. You generalized and put me in the "white male" category, then applied blanket assumptions to that group as a whole.

There is no such thing as "privilege". There is bias, and it differs from person to person. One manager may care if they are hiring a short lesbian black woman, another may not, that is up to the dynamic of the two individuals and cannot be attributed to some sort of greater force, privilege.

At the end of the day, in this field, it is your work that matters. If you come to me with a shit portfolio and a 2.0 GPA, and you happen to be a short black lesbian female, that has less to do with your privilege and more to do with the fact that your works sucks.

I hire people. I hire people old, young, black, white, transexual, poor, wealthy, gay, straight, anyone. It's the work that matters.

Anybody who patches up their own deficiencies with "privilege plaster" should steer themselves in a different direction.

That is such a terrible article on so many levels.

No, I truly believe there is no such thing, it's something made up by the entitled. Why is it that I work alongside many tiny asian women and indian women that can barely speak a word of English and are in their 30's?

You are assuming I go to a nice school and I'm from a nice middle class family that can support all my stuff. I'm not. I dropped out because I had no money and I was born in eastern european ghetto filth.

Not have my sexuality be a real risk to my career and health? What do you know about my life, my career, my health, or anything, for you to lay baseless "privilege" assumptions?

Being white isn't a ticket to kingdom come and anybody who believes so has to do some deep self reflection.

I've been on the wrong side, the very very wrong side. What the fuck do you know about going to prison? Where was my white privilege when my teeth were being ground into the asphalt by 5 guys bigger than me?

What do you know about not having SHIT to eat for days at a time? Not seeing your parents for weeks at a time to just bring food to the table? What do you know about spending 5 years travelling through many different countries just to escape a communist regime, to leave your family behind, to have nothing?

"Privilege" is something created by the people that are already born into an upper class world and spend their days speculating upon the lives of the less fortunate which in turn sprouted this movement.

Do not fucking sit here and spout this poisonous bullshit, because it doesn't exist in the extremes of life, only in the made up comfortable society you've been brought up in, maybe.

You don't know shit about me.

No actually, I've never been given a handout once in my life. I grew up in the shittiest of shit ghettos in eastern europe and I got out of there. Then I made a whole new life for myself from the ground up. I never had any "groups" to help me along, no support systems, no grants, no aid, nothing.

I do not have "privilege" and I think it's disgusting that people offset their own deficiencies with someone else's imaginary "privilege" rather than working hard.

Victim culture is poisonous. Do you see how my "privilege" just adversely affected me instead of imaginarily pushing me in the right direction as you so define it? Randoms on the internet telling me I had an invisible hand to help shove me in the right direction.

Does that not discredit my effort? Is that not ironic and counter to what privilege actually is in the context you are using it?

Now I have to deal with people thinking I was skyrocketed into the good life simply because I'm a tall white male. The reality is I gave up a substantial portion of the beginning of my life to propel myself into the life I'm in.

It took countless hours of mental agony and breakdowns to finally repair myself to a point where I'm able to be a viable athlete in this hyper competitive concrete jungle.

I spent my nights and days studying finance, programming, and mathematics. I did not go out with friends. I kept to a very strict routine to better myself, and after years, it has finally fucking paid off.

Do not talk to me about privilege, I know what poverty is. You are disillusioning yourself and those around you.

How do I find out what "privilege" I have? Do I have to work harder to actively offset this imaginary benefit society has somehow determined that I've been born with?

I'm sick and tired of this privilege bullshit. I didn't get to where I am now because of being a white male.

I work on mobile applications at an investment bank so the rich can fiddle with their money from their diamond plated iPhones. Does that buy me a ticket to hell?

Yeah, and this is why I'm still trading the precious hours of my life for a few dollars to write code nobody is ever going to use, look at, or benefit from, while he is bathing in money.

The scummy shit he did is negligible.

If this is how you feel about the world, how do you live? Do you simply just not use services you feel have been corrupt? If that's the case the only place you should really be located is the woods without internet.

Jesus, now I have to feel guilty about being white, bering a male, and being a developer? Someone stop me!

Yeah basically, I'm incoherent when I don't edit, heh.

Exactly what I'm doing right now. I work a 9-5 but there is so much pressure and everyone usually ends up staying longer. Read my previous comments on conditions at my workplace.

On any off time that I have I research current job postings of lucrative startups and compiled a list of all the shit I have to learn and excel that.

I have 3 months left until the end of my contract in which I'm coding the most I possibly can. In the past 3 days I've coded two side projects in mongo/angular/express/node and a bunch of other tech.

Not even clever, I'm disappointed.

Old enough to know not to tinker with silly shit :P

I have, many many times. No response, nobody knows anything.

I viewed it without a proxy haha. My IP just got straight logged.

When I was 14, I used to hang around all these sketchy script kiddie forums. I learned assembly off some crapily written assembly.txt guide, with the ASCII art of the author at the top and all. Fast forward two years later.

A buddy of mine from IRC links me a webpage like he usually does, most of the time it's a static HTML file buried deep into the file structure of some large corporate site. This file was different, it was the CC database for a huge site.

Few weeks later police kick my door down, seize most of my personal electronics, and I have yet to hear from them or see my equipment.

If there is anything I've learned in life, it's to take everything you hear on the internet with a truckload of salt, not a grain.

Doesn't really matter if there are people out there that are better than you, there always will be.

Haha, you are certifiably insane. When I do a job, I expect not to pay much attention to my setup. I want to spend max 2 days to setup my environment then never touch it again.

Honestly the managers moved heaven and hell to get me into this position because I specialize in a specific piece of software that they are using.

I can't just ditch them. I love the team and I will see this product through until production, then I'm asking for 40k/year on top of my current pay or I'm leaving.

Wow that's awesome. I work at a big bank and we have none of those things. Everything is shit and I can't wait to leave.

Our mobile development environment is a locked down internal Windows XP laptop that doesn't let anything in or out, so we had to write our own tools to package code to leave the laptop.

We wrote a simple little "chat" client in Node, but before sending the code off, it was packaged into a .jpg, and unpacked on the other side (my development macbook). This is how we've been dealing with code for over a year now.

Shit pay, 0 resources basically. Can't wait to leave.

Legalizing a plant versus fixing the political system are two completely different devils. Existing in the same "realm" hardly compares the two.

Aggregation. Aggregate services. Guy who made padmapper.com just aggregated all listings from various sites.

You're missing a closing ")" on p class="pad"

No, I don't believe in anything, not religion, ethics, or morality, just survival. It's an entirely fruitless endeavor. Where do I begin? Organize a friendly protest somewhere?

I think everything is just a tool, and those who see through them and utilize these tools to their advantage move up the ladder.

World War I and II were settled over some whiskey and a game of poker right?

It's difficult to objectively say whether violent revolt works, because every single revolt has been in a very different context then the next.

The amount of people, artillery, the strength of the opposition, the cause, the location, the current government, the time.

You can't say whether a violent revolt is the way to go or whether it's not the way to go. It's not a black and white issue at all.

If my brothers and sisters see that giving up their lives for our country is a necessity, then I will dedicate my life and fight along side them.

It hasn't gotten bad yet, the moment it starts to really affect your day to day life, people will do something. Right now, to most people, if their instragrams and facebooks work they don't care.

There's just no way to do it from the bottom. All these protests, all this (sl)activism, it doesn't do anything.

You either need to dedicate your life to politics and get into the club and start working from the inside, and pray some holy fucking deity that there are others like you, or nothing will change.

Maybe severe violent revolt but I literally don't ever see that happening.

There isn't enough time in the day to concern yourself with shit that matters. Nobody wants to come home after working 8 hours with a two hour commute to dip their head into politics, just to even begin to know what's happening.

Where do you go? The mainstream media? Where do you inform yourself?

The reality is people just want to go home, flick the TV on, spend some time with the kids, and maybe if they're lucky, devote a few extra hours to a hobby every week. This scenario occurs in the poor, it occurs in the rich.

It takes a very very special type of person to run a country. You need people who are basically insane. Who have no problem getting up every day and just doing that one thing they do, all day, every day. That isn't 99% of the population. If the top tier of our government is run by similar people at the bottom, we're screwed.

Same way I was taught. You don't get shit unless you do something for it.

When I was a kid, my dad hired me to do jobs on the clock around the house for $10 an hour, or whatever minimum wage was at the time. We had a set schedule, we had a fake tax schedule. We wrote everything out, calculated it, pretended to invest it into things like real estate etc.

When I was younger I used the money I saved up, around $15,000, to buy the shack outside our house. My first "investment". Rules were it was completely mine and my parents couldn't touch it. Insulated, spacious, my own little lofty apartment type. It was great, during high school I basically turned it into a smoke shack.

I kept it until college, at which point my dad pulled out the original $15k I gave him for it and used it for my college fund and said "you now know how to value money". He wasn't a man of many words, so when he says something like that it really means a lot.

I was taught this from a super young age, I didn't even bother to beg or throw a fit about anything because I knew my dad would just stare at me until it was over, and if I didn't have the cash, I didn't get the cookies.

What is honestly the point of even concerning ones self with politics anymore? There has been nobody I've talked to in real life that has their head in the game completely, who knows what they are talking about, myself included.

Nothing is going to change, it's a big boys club, debating it, writing about it, all fruitless.

What do I even begin googling to find this in my city? Toronto.