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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Well yeah, those with extraordinary advantages are also other in my model. They are statistically visible. Like geniuses and the beautiful and the billionaires. Socially they are definitely othered...maybe not as harmfully as disadvantaged others, but they are not as free to move about without getting attention and scrutiny.
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I suspect that just about everyone is at least sometimes other. But yeah; that's a good way of looking at things sometimes, and it can matter.
It also seems like this could be a really useful insight when trying to explain about the concept of privilege to people who are for the most part "on top" in just about everything, and thus likely to lack empathic response to the issue. If you can find a way in which they feel "other" or excluded, you might be able to use that to get them to think about the other cases as well.