Aye, telling someone that they are “privileged” when they live in a shithole trailer park with no job and no prospects only makes them hate you. I know — been there, done that. Lived in a shithole trailer park, that is.

Do not tell me, or them, that they are “privileged.” Yes, it is better to be poor and white than poor and black, and better to be a poor white man than a poor white woman, but people who are in pain do not react well to some smug, upper-middle-class jerk telling them they are privileged when their lives are clearly terrible.

I don’t think they most people who live in those situations think their lives are terrible. Hedonic adjustment and all that. But people in those situations know for sure they are not getting a fair shake. Pretending that they have some sort of great privilege because they are a sliver better off than someone who has also gotten the shaft in life just doesn’t help anything at all — other than to make some smug liberal asshole feel better.

Serena Williams Slams Tennis CEO Over Sexist Comments About Female Players.

What a moron this dude is. He should resign The women’s side has carried the game for the last 15 years in actuality — revived interest in the sport and has long had the most exciting match-ups.

The exact opposite of what this doofus says is true — otherwise, no way women in the sport would get the same prize money as men (they do).

From a Stoic point of view, a God with whom you trade in virtue to obtain eternal favors wouldn’t be worth a prayer. For somebody like Marcus [Aurelius], virtue’s value lay precisely in its being a gamble, not an investment.

-Joseph Brodsky, “Homage to Marcus Aurelius”